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Archive for July, 2006

More Schools Do Not….

July 24, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

wind up on the TAKS list for possible cheating.  A 167 more schools have been found of possible cheating on the test by a deata-anlysis company called Caveon, but the state of Texas so far does not want to check out this new info.

Frontier Campus Of Indian Prairie Unit School District 204 Article

July 24, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: College, Uncategorized

This is a new school in the Chicago area that caters to students who want to earn college credits while going to high school.  They can earn a semesters worth of college credits for only 10 bucks.  It will only accept seniors, but none of them will be turned away

Project Lead the Way Article

July 24, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: College, Uncategorized

This program includes over a dozen high school student from across the state of Connecticut that go to Manchester Community College so they can move foward in the engineering field.

Workshop For Science Teachers…..

July 24, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

The Hartford Courant report on the Connecticut Science Center training sessions teachers attend each year.

The article says that teacher in the state of Connecticut is going to force teachers to have some science mastery in 2008.

New Pre-K Now Report Says…

July 24, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

that we need Universal Preschool.  The report says that gap between Latino and non-Latino exists before kindergarten and continues on through twelvth grade.

At age five even English-proficient are a few months behind says the report.

The report throws out some stats from some other reports saying that with a high quality pre-k program students will do better in school and more will graduate.

The Carroll County School District….

July 24, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

has set a hiring record says that Baltimore Sun.