Related NewsAmid school's struggle, a reach for redemption (Boston Globe)Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:47:38 GMT
Last in a series It was "senior sign out" at The English High School in Jamaica Plain, the last day of the year for 12th-graders and a time of reckoning. Nearly a third of the school's seniors were at risk of not graduating, many of them because they were failing English.
More... NEPAL: Training the teachers keeps children in school (AlertNet)Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:43:55 GMT
Source: IRIN For sixth-grade student Srijana Biswakarma, school was a daily torment of being humiliated by her teacher in front of her 40 classmates. He often criticised the 15-year-old student for lagging behind the others, calling her a loser.
More... Board seeks town funds for kindergarten, reading program (Journal Inquirer)Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:59:10 GMT
EAST HARTFORD — Stung by the state legislature’s decision to pull funding for a reading program, the Board of Education will appeal to the Town Council tonight to give back about $400,000 for all-day kindergarten and early reading intervention.
More... Bill waives LEAP in special education (The News-Star)Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:22:41 GMT
The Ouachita Parish School System and the state Department of Education have classified Colby Brown as a special education student since he was 4 years old.
More... Pittsburgh Region Middle School Students Participate in Hands-on Tissue Engineering Summer Camp (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:09:00 GMT
Have you ever wondered why a starfish can completely grow a new arm, but humans cannot?
More... Road to glory passes through Lakehead (universitysport.ca)Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:47:28 GMT
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Of all the odysseys Darnellia Russell has experienced - her teen pregnancy, her lawsuit against the Washington state school board, her high-school basketball team winning the state championship, the movie about her struggles and the fact she was ignored by the same U.S. Division I universities that once teased her with letters of recruitment - this has to be the oddest yet.
More... Teacher motivation focus of plan (Public Opinion)Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:45:09 GMT
Chambersburg Area School District teachers will be supervised and evaluated in a new way this fall. The new CASD Differentiated Supervision and Evaluation plan focuses on motivating teacher performance.
More... La Bawaleshie Presby Primary appeals for a library (The Ghanaian Chronicle)Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:04:05 GMT
THE HEADMISTRESS of the La Bawaleshie Presbyterian Primary ‘A’, Ms. Paulina Kyeraa has appealed to members of the public to assist the school in setting up a library to provide students access to relevant books for their studies.
More... Area wood carvers display their art (The Pantagraph)Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:18:30 GMT
Bob Deibert, Roy Hanks and their friends use knives and gouges to make wood come to life. Deibert carves faces. Hanks makes Santa Clauses and Christmas tree ornaments.
More... Around the Big Ten (USA Today)Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:07:11 GMT
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