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Program improving reading skills
Profs plan helping youngsters
By GRACE LOVELL
Reporter
A multi-ethnic reading program
developed and tested by a Texas
A&M professor has improved the
reading skills and racial attitudes of
elementary and junior high school
students, says Dr. Donna Norton,
the program’s founder.
The students who have used the
program have gained an average of
two grade levels for each year in the
program, she says.
"Many children need an under
standing of their own culture as well
as the culture of others,” Norton
says.
Biographies and reading material
are used to show the children other
culture’s beliefs, such as legends and
traditions, Norton says.
Not only has this program ad
vanced some remedial students by
two grade levels, but it also enables
them to pass statewide tests, she says.
In 1980 Norton began a study to
change children’s racial prejudices.
After conducting the study on her
own, Norton received a three-year
grant from the Meadows Founda
tion in September 1984 to continue
her study.
Last year, the first year of the
“Many children need an
understanding of their
own culture as well as the
culture of others. ”
— Dr. Donna Norton, as
sociate professor of EdCI.
grant, the material was expanded
and tested, and an in-service pro
gram was held for teachers who will
be using the program within the
schools.
This school year, the second year
of the grant, more teachers wdll be
added and the first-year teachers
will be trained to become self-suffi
cient. The dissemination process
and the development of an institute
that will include other school dis
tricts will take place the last year of
the grant, Norton says.
In 1980 she began the study by
identifying positive children’s litera
ture and then developing material to
go along with the books, Norton
says. She then had students in her
classes at A&M evaluate the pro
gram.
“To evaluate good literature we
look at the values presented and de
termine if they are appropriate or
authentic,” Norton says.
Sue Mormon, who is now working
on her doctorate in spelling, was
hired in 1980 as a summer graduate
assistant to write lessons to go along
with the childrens’ books, Norton
says.
Mormon; who was teaching an
eighth grade remedial class at Ste
phen F. Austin Junior High School,
Not only has this program
advanced some remedial
students by two grade lev
els, but it also enables
them to pass statewide
tests.
— Dr. Donna Norton.
used the reading program in her
class. The students were tested by
three altitudinal inventories. After
testing the students. Mormon found
that the program had increased sev
eral children’s reading skills by two
levels and three student’s by five
grade levels, Mormon says. She then
sent a report to the principal ex
plaining the program and the re
sults.
Norton says that she received per
mission to test students at Sul Ross
Elementary on racial attitudes.
Mormon adds, “We knew it
changed attitudes, but we didn’t
know if it was helping or hurting.”
Norton says, "After testing the
students, we found that it was not
only decreasing racial prejudice but
increasing reading and writing skills.
We then received a call from the
Bryan Independent School District,
asking if we could develop a pro
gram to help reading skills for reme
dial classes in the fifth through
eighth grades.
Mormon says that after this year
they hope to begin a summer train
ing program, in which at least three
faculty members from each district
will spend three weeks of intensive
training.
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Hearing on pipeline may be delayed
Associated Press
AUSTIN — State District Judge
Joe Dibrell says he will decide by Fri
day whether to allow a Texas Rail
road Commission hearing to con
tinue on a proposed high pressure
oil pipeline across the environmen
tally sensitive Edwards Aquiter.
Outspoken opponents of the ap
plication by All American Pipeline
Co. say the commission’s hearing,
which began Dec. 10, should not
continue until stricter water pollut
ion standards are adopted as re
quired by the 1985 Legislature.
Attorneys for All American and
the Railroad Commission say pre
sent regulations are adequate to
guarantee a safe pipeline across the
important water-bearinif s
tween Austin and San Antonio.
The second phase of the commis
sion hearing is scheduled to begin
Jan. 14.
“I will give you a decision by Fri
day,” Dibrell told about a dozen at
torneys.
Opening statements were heard
by a commission examiner on All
American’s application for a permit
to operate a heated, high pressure
30-inch pipeline across Texas to
transport Alaskan crude oil to refi
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pipeline were being mane and land
was being condemned along its
route. Technical testimony was
scheduled Jan. 14.
After the commission examiner
cation will go to the three-menu
commission for a decision.
Follpwing the December hearing,
a group called Concerned Citizens
for the Edwards Aquifer, made up
of landowners and others from Hays
and Caldwell counties, asked Dibrell
for an injunction.
They said the commission should
npt resume the hearing until it com-
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concerning pollution of surface and
underground water by oil pipeline
spills.
“All American has descended on
Texas and is rolling across the state
like a freight train,” said attorney
Tom Groce for Concerned Citizens.
“The Railroad Commission should
slow it down.”
Phillip Pfeiffer, attorney, for the
Edwards Underground Water dis
trict, said, “A hearing under present
rules is wholly inappropriate and
should be delayed and stayed until
new rules are adopted.”
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Foy, assistant attorney general, said,
“The Railroad Commission is not
acting unlawfully in going ahead
with the hearing. Our position is that
no further rules are needed than
those which were adopted pre
viously.”
Dan Moody, attorney for All
American, said, “The commission
may need to make some new rules
but they are not prevented from
proceeding now on this application.”
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