School notes (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Chelsea Youtz, 17, got a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT. Her dad, a math teacher at Lackawanna Trail High School, ?had just piles of SAT practice books and stuff,? Chelsea said, but she didn?t use them much. She was focusing on the writing and verbal tests, instead....more...North Beach journalists put out school paper (Ballard News-Tribune)
There's no untruth a young journalist won't try to uncover, even if that reporter is still learning multiplication tables and getting rides to school on a yellow bus....more... CNN Student News Transcript: November 9, 2007 (CNN.com)
November 9, 2007...more... Oregon's poet laureate gives Hermiston students a lesson in finding inspiration (Tri-City Herald)
HERMISTON -- Inspiration for poetry can be found everywhere -- in the smell of toast in the morning or in the things you're thankful for....more... Every School Every Thursday -- Urbandale (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)
Join Urbandale Academic Boosters, or UAB, at 7 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Urbandale Middle School media center to meet and visit with Maura Flaschner of Iowa State University. Flaschner is the assistant director of the office of admissions, and director of precollegiate programs for Talented and Gifted....more... Every School Every Thursday -- Johnston (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)
The PTO is sponsoring its annual fall book fair in mid-November. This will be open to students during the school day and also open during parent-teacher conferences. A portion of the proceeds from the book fair will be used to purchase new books for the learning media center....more... Reading is fun-damental at Fairview (The Herald-Mail)
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a continuing series of stories exploring the workings of a modern-day classroom....more... ABCs to ACTs (Montgomery Advertiser)
Note: Montgomery Public Schools' HIPPY program students in Ramer donned costumes and plenty of fall spirit during the program's recent fall festival at Dunbar-Ramer School....more... Every School Every Thursday -- Urbandale (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)
Students from Laurie Ohland's fourth-grade class at Jensen Elementary are taking pictures and making movies. These students are in a group called "clickers" at Jensen Elementary. Jennifer Reiter teaches students in this group how to work better on computers....more... |