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"You can't have 30 different pro
grams," he said.
Kame'enui said it is important for
children to have strong reading abili
ties by third grade because curricula
change in the fourth grade from nar
rative texts to more expository, infor
mational texts.
"The text that they're required to
read changes very dramatically from
third to fourth grade," he said.
College of Education Dean Marty
Kaufman said "reading is a linch-pin
to success," but nearly 40 percent of
children nationwide cannot read at
a basic level by fourth grade.
Kame'enui said if children are poor
readers at the age of 6, there is an 80
percent chance they will be poor
readers later on. In a high school
classroom of 30 students, about 20
percent struggle with reading on av
erage, he added.
He said the University has a
strong history of research based in
this area, which is one reason it was
awarded the "highly competitive"
five-year contract. The western cen
ter will receive almost $2 million per
year in funding.
"The University College of
Education has a long tradition of
doing this kind of research," he said.
"We've been doing work in this area
for some time."
Kaufman said the new center al
lows student teachers at the Univer
sity to be on the "cutting edge" of
techniques for improving children's
literacy.
"This is a result of several decades
of faculty research," he said.
He said a faculty proposal to the
Oregon Department of Education
made Oregon one of the first states to
receive Reading First funding last year
when the state was awarded about
$48 million.
The College of Education, which
is ranked second in the nation by
U.S. News and World Report, has es
tablished several research centers
over the past few years, including the
National Technical Assistance Cen
ter on Positive Behavioral Interven
tions and Supports, which serves
about 4,000 schools across 35 states,
he added.
"In both of these centers you get a
sense of the impact we make,"
he said.
Contact the higher education/
student life/student affairs reporter
atchelseaduncan@dailyemerald.com.
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corporate America often presents
black culture in inaccurate or ro
manticized ways, adding that he
thinks Rose will present a more crit
ical and honest analysis.
Rose is also author of "Black
Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture
in Contemporary America," which
was awarded the American Book
Award from the Before Columbus
Foundation in 1995 and made The
Village Voice's top 25 books
of 1994.
Mojica explained that the book is
important because it "intellectual
izes" rap music and has been ac
cepted by the intellectual
community.
Hanif Panni, a student and hip
hop performer on campus, said the
material in the chapters he read was
very accurate.
"I thought that a lot of the things in
that book were right on," he said.
The Diversity Education and
Support Office, the Multicultural
Center and the Black Student Union
are all sponsoring and organizing
tonight's event.
The speech kicks off two weeks of
celebrations at the University, which
include a unity celebration with a can
dlelight vigil Wednesday evening and
a speech by lecturer and human rights
activist Yuri Kochiyama on Jan. 31,
Mojica said.
The candlelight vigil will start at 6
p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28 in the
Gerlinger Lounge. The procession
will then go on to Agate Street, to
East 13th Avenue and back up to the
EMU Amphitheatre.
The Oregon Students of Color
Coalition conference on Jan. 31 will
feature Kochiyama's address at noon
in 129 McKenzie. Kochiyama was a
friend of Malcolm X and lived
through World War II and Japanese
American internment camps.
Contact the people/culture/
faith reporter
at jaredpaben@dailyemerald.com.
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