Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Graduates from the small Pelham Preparatory Academy in the Bronx received a special commencement speech on Sunday from Senator Clinton. The speech was given to fulfill a promise Clinton had made to Aleatha Williams, a friend of the Clinton family since age two. When Aleatha graduated from 8th grade, Clinton ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
What should you do when you're trying to teach and the students just won't pay attention?
One thing you should never do is threaten something if you aren't prepared to follow through with it. So when this teacher decided to threaten to disgust his students with his body they didn't believe ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Jennifer Chau was this year’s salutatorian at Mainland Regional High School in Linwood, New Jersey. As is customary, Jennifer had prepared a speech for the graduation ceremony and had it approved by school administration. However, when she got up to the stage, she decided to scrap the speech and share ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Kim obviously published her take on this story yesterday and it has been all over the morning news, but I spent a few hours on this last night and I don't want all that time to be wasted. (Does that attitude give any clues as to why there is ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
This is probably the strangest, most disturbing high school story I’ve heard in a while. Apparently a group of teenage girls, all under the age of 16, made a pact to get pregnant at the same time. Out of 17 girls, almost half have followed through.
The girls attend Gloucester High ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Here we go, students at Naperville Central High School have published a package of stories about drug use. Now some in the administration, including principal Jim Caudill (who incidentally was reassigned to the central office for plagiarizing a speech), feel that the students have gone over the line. Now Linda ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Omar Kahn was supposed to graduate from Tesoro High School yesterday, but instead spent the day in jail after getting arrested for hacking into his school’s computer system and altering his final grades.
But it wasn’t only final grades that Omar had been altering. Apparently, between the months of January and ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I usually like to keep these Quality Education pieces to Monday, but the reduction of gifted education is one of my pet peeves.
“No Child Left Behind is silent on the education of gifted children. Under the law, schools must test students annually in reading and math from third grade to ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Students at Washington D.C.’s Kipp DC: Key Academy are receiving paychecks for good behavior. Each time a student completes their homework or does well on a test, they are given cash.
Well, the money isn’t actually real. The pretend funny-money works in the school’s makeshift store, which offers students an array ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Columbia University of Continuing education is offering tuition-free science and math courses this summer to students in select New York neighborhoods surrounding the university.
They will be giving away 60 scholarships this summer for courses in the School of Continuing Education’s Summer Program for High School Students.
If this is of interest ...
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