| Volunteers needed to teach sport of fishing
MassWildlife's Angler Education Program is looking for volunteer fishing Instructors to pass on the great sport of fishing. This Saturday, a full day Angler Education Instructor Workshop will be held at the MassWildlife Field Headquarters in Westborough. It's a free workshop that certifies Angler Education Program instructors. Women and men of all ages who enjoy fishing and sharing their knowledge and passion for this activity are encouraged to attend. The workshop will certify participants as MassWildlife Angler Education Program instructors. Instructors work in teams to offer fishing clinics, classes and family fishing festivals throughout the state. The goal of MassWildlife's Angler Education Program is to stimulate public interest in our aquatic environments through fishing. The Program is especially in need of instructor teams from the Southern Berkshires, upper Connecticut Valley, North Shore, southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
Special classes in Monroe
Attention, all residents of Monroe Township. New Jersey law provides for the special education and related services for pre-school children from birth to age five who have identified handicapping condition and/or a measurable developmental impairment. The law designates local boards of education as responsible for identifying these children and providing information regarding available services and programs offered by state, county and local agencies. Anyone having knowledge of any pre-school child and suspecting this child may have measurable developmental impairments should contact, or have the parent/guardian contact, Joseph W. Keenan, EdD, Supervisor of Special Services, Oak Knoll Elementary School, 23 Bodine Ave., Williamstown, N.J. 08094 or call (856) 728-3945.
Rabbi Education Exchange
This year Rabbi Ephraim Zimand of Traditional Congregation will be partnering with Rabbi Joshua Taub of Temple Emanuel for the Adult Education Presentations. Rabbi Zimand will make three presentations at Temple Emanuel on the topic: Maimonides on Character, on Monday evenings, March 5, 12 & 19. Rabbi Taub will make three presentations at Traditional Congregation on the topic: Sex in the Text: Sexuality in the Biblical Narrative, on Wednesday evenings, April 11, 18 & 25. Congregants are encouraged to attend all sessions.
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Chamber downgrades Maryland education
WASHINGTON - Maryland is falling down on the job when it comes to producing students ready to enter the work force, a new U.S. Chamber of Commerce study says, but the state countered that the grading system is unfair because Maryland doesn't even use a key test considered in the report. And, the Maryland State Department of Education said, it is working on a program that should rectify the state's one "F" grade. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined the education reform effort last year, citing concerns that today's schoolchildren may not be able to fill the 35 million jobs the Department of Labor estimates will be available by 2012, and compete in the global economy. "This is a matter of critical national urgency," said Thomas J. Donohue, president and chief executive officer of the U.S.
Need stressed to enhance literacy rate among women
KHAIRPUR: District Nazim Khairpur Pir Niaz Shah Jillani distributed dictionaries among the students of Class IX of the Government Higher Secondary School for Girls, Khairpur on Saturday.
Addressing at the ceremony he said the district government, in its attempt to increase the literacy in the district, managed to reopen 342 closed schools of Khairpur. He informed that the district government also provided jobs to 200 youths of the district, including girls, with the support of the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD).
He said that the NCHD will also open feeder schools across the district for the house women and will appoint girls who have pass Class X exams in such schools. Telling about his governments services for education, Jillani said the district government was also planning to enhance enrolment of students and providing them with pleasant atmosphere.
Severe weather education will save lives
Improvements in weather forecasting and monitoring are enabling emergency officials to provide more advance warning in the face of severe weather such as tornadoes.But those alerts are of limited usefulness if no one is listening or people don't know what to do when they hear an alert.Last year, Illinois had a record number of tornadoes — 124 — but no deaths. There is some luck involved in the zero figure, but it also is a testament to warnings being given and heeded.Recent deadly tornadoes in other states demonstrated the power of these storms.As Illinois marks Severe Weather Preparedness Week, this is a good time to take steps in education and preparation.The value of preparation is evident to all who remember what happened less than three years ago at Parsons Manufacturing, outside of Roanoke.The plant took a direct hit from a tornado, but everyone survived because the business had someone monitoring the weather and had a shelter area of reinforced concrete where employees knew to go after participating in drills.Families should be sure everyone knows the safest place to go in the house in the event of a severe storm.Educate yourself about important weather terms.A tornado WATCH means tornadoes are possible.
Party politics don’t always apply
Maybe like many Oklahomans, they don't believe the state should take 3-year-olds out of their homes or day cares to attend a regimented education system. Maybe like many Oklahomans, they believe we just ought to do better educating children the 13 years — 14 counting 4-year-old classes — that we have them in K-12 classes. Without doubt, pre-school children need to be challenged mentally for proper development, and it doesn't hurt them to receive educational preparatory skills. But starting school at 3 is a relatively new idea. Many Oklahomans are reluctant to embrace this program as necessary. No one likes politicking motivated from purely partisan positions. But if Henry ever wants a 3-year-old education program in Oklahoma, he needs to do a better job selling it.
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