r Crisis Prevention Conference
_One credit class
Who am I?
Identity Development & Crisis Intervention
When: Saturday January 31,9:00-4:30
Registration 8:30-9:00
Where: College of Education
How: Register on Duck Call for credit
CPSY 408/508 CRN 21268/21270
All attendants must pay $30 fee.
• Tracks will be offered for educators, helping professionals and the
general public.
• Topics will include: Crisis Intervention Skills, Identity Development,
Biracial Identity Development, LBGT Identity Development,
Development as Therapist and/or Crisis Counselors & Multicultural
Skills for Educators.
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National Center for Reading
on campus serves 22 states
i-unded by the Department
of Education, the center is
one of three in the country
By Chelsea Duncan
News Reporter
The U.S. Department of Education
selected the University to be one of
three locations for a national center
that employs research-based methods
to improve child literacy.
The National Center for Reading
First Technical Assistance, an initia
tive of President George W. Bush's
No Child Left Behind Act, provides
free training and support for im
proving children's reading abilities.
Support is given to states and dis
tricts around the country that have
received Reading First grants, accord
ing to a U.S. Department of Educa
tion press release.
"The primary focus of Reading First
is to provide schools with support so
that kids can make the kind of
progress they need to make," said Ed
Kame'enui, director of the Western
Regional Center at the University
The other two centers are located at
Florida State University and the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin. Kame'enui
said the University's center provides
service to 22 states.
Kame'enui said the center focuses
primarily on children in kindergarten
through third grade because research
shows these ages are critical for future
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reading success.
"The idea is to get kids started on
the right trajectory early on," he
said, adding that 10 to 15 percent
of children nationwide are in
schools that require some kind of
reading support.
Kame'enui said University faculty
involved with the center provide
schools with training materials and
technical assistance and are involved
in assessing teaching methods. They
also help schools with limited
resources decide which reading pro
grams to choose from.
"Programs have to be designed dif
ferently for different kids," he said.
Schools generally use one program
for the majority of students and an
other that must meet the various
needs of students struggling with
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Mars exploration furnishes
material for University classes
NASA rover's discoveries
on the red planet are used
by astronomy and geology
professors for their courses
By Caron Alarab
Senior News Reporter
Space, "the final frontier," may
soon reveal evidence of other life
within our solar system.
And the first step is Mars.
Spirit — the first of NASA's twin
Mars Exploration Rovers to success
fully land on the planet, roll onto the
dirt and drive around — is fascinating
the scientific community at large with
its recent successes.
As NASA makes another giant leap
for mankind through the remote-con
trolled Martian exploration, Universi
ty geology and astronomy professors
attempt to inspire their students with
the new observations and photos.
"1 incorporate this stuff right away,"
astronomy Professor James
Schombert said. "We're watching his
tory happen."
The main goal for Spirit is to deter
mine whether the Connecticut-sized
Gusev Crater ever contained a lake.
If it did, it could be concrete evi
dence for life on other planets.
Blastoff
Six months ago, the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration
launched the rover from the Cape
Turn to MARS, page 6A
Professor
James
Schombert
incorporates
the new
information
streaming
in from
Mars
into his
astronomy
class.
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Wimer
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Photo editor: Danielle Hickey Senior photographer: Adam Amato
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