ETS and Great Source Team Up to Help Students Improve Their Writing Skills (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ETS and Great Source Education Group today announced a collaboration to help students improve their writing skills. Great Source, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company, will market and distribute subscriptions to a co-branded version of ETS's Criterion(SM) Online Writing Evaluation....more...Pen pals (San Francisco Bay View)
P.H.A.T. (Protecting the 'Hood Against Tobacco), along with researchers at the UCSF and the SF African American Tobacco Free Project are doing a community research study. This community-driven project aims to help African American residents of SF who want to stop smoking....more... Young Writers Project (The Burlington Free Press)
Published: Sunday, May 28, 2006 The Young Writers Project begins to finish up for the year and Tuesday will feature the best writing from some of the remaining prompts and will look at the work produced from several elementary school workshops organized by the Children's Literacy Foundation....more... Archaeological discovery prompts big quest for facts (Pahrump Valley Times)
FERNLEY - Two Fernley Elementary School teachers never meant to get in the middle of a political battle over who controls the history of North America....more... Boosters plan yucca strategy (Pahrump Valley Times)
Fifty VIPs, political allies in their support for the Yucca Mountain Repository, rallied Tuesday at a technical workshop held at Pahrump's Community College of Southern Nevada....more... Recess is still common, but it's no longer a given (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
A sense that playtime at school is in decline prompts a national letter-writing campaign....more... Nonstandard Schools Improve in FCAT (The Ledger)
LAKELAND -- Three nontraditional Polk County schools were among the top 10 in the state for improving their FCAT writing scores this year. The state released three lists of 100 schools that showed the most improvement on this year's FCAT writing....more... |