| Sorority addresses inequality, sex education
The Zeta Omega Eta feminist sorority gathered for its first workshop in the Interfaith Center to discuss issues ranging from women's body image to abortion. The event was held in conjunction with the first weekend of Women's History Month.
The ZOE sorority leader, Erica Dodt, a junior from Kankakee in women's studies, said the group is discussing its stance on a variety of issues.
"The reason why we have so many broad topics is so we can be bombarded by it and come back together and have a discussion about what we want to do with all of this," she said.
One topic the group will address in the future is sex education in Carbondale, because the local public schools only teach students to abstain from sex, Dodt said,
"It's not addressing any of the issues - the fact that we are having sex," Dodt said.
Hollman cashes in bank career for kid care
After 15 years in the mortgage business, Becky Hollman wanted a professional change. Hollman pined to do something more personally fulfilling for a long time, but it wasn't until she had two children that the abstract "something" became much clearer. In 2001, she enrolled her daughter, Nyanna, at LifeWays Child Development Center, 3224 N. Gordon Pl., and later, her son Gibson joined his sister at the Waldorf education-inspired LifeWays. Hollman was impressed and motivated by the program. "Once I saw the (Waldorf) philosophies, I knew this was something I believed in, and over time, realized it was actually something I could do," she says. Despite high earnings at her bank job, Hollman and her husband, Matt Krajewski, talked about the possibility of Hollman starting a Waldorf daycare.
School districts seek state funding for prekindergarten
Adrienne Ray stood in front of preschoolers at Tyrone Elementary School, pointing to each letter.
The students were trying to find the letter t. She asked if each letter was a t. If it was, she had another question for them: Uppercase or lowercase?
Ray was involved in a lesson thats part of the Pre-K Counts program.
Gov. Ed Rendell wants to devote $75 million to the program this year, allowing up to 11,000 children to enroll in a preschool program. Up until this point, most of the money has come from private sources: $9,731,600 in private funding and $2,150,000 from the state.
Tyrone has had the program for two years. The district moved fifth-graders to the middle school to make space.
The district, along with Intermediate Unit 8, Head Start and Hollidaysburg Area YMCA, have pre-kindergarten classes at the school.
Ohio PT instructor holds training in the CNMI
A physical therapy instructor from Ohio is currently conducting training at the Commonwealth Health Center, targeting the Saipan, Guam, and Japan physical and occupational therapists.According to the Department of Public Health, its Physical Therapy Unit is hosting the Continuing Education course which started last Friday up to March 5.Course organizer and resident PT Dana McFadden said that this "Mulligan Concept" course is focusing mainly on joint mobilization treatment techniques which would enhance the knowledge base and skill level of the physical therapists at CHC.The instructor, Amy Bennett, arrived last Thursday all the way from Dayton, Ohio and will be on island for an additional week after the course to tour the island.This is the first C.E. course of its kind to be hosted on Saipan, said DPH acting PIO Roxanne Diaz.She said the class is being attended by physical and occupational therapists from Guam and Japan.There are 11 participants attending the class, which is equivalent to 32 contact hours worth of continuing education.
Coach viewed porn at school
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS -- The head baseball coach and business teacher at Richland High School who resigned in January did so after a computer technician discovered him viewing pornography on a school computer, according to documents obtained Friday by the Star-Telegram. Birdville district officials secretly watched Alan Wayne Burt as he continued to view pornography using an elementary school student's computer account for nearly two weeks before he resigned Jan. 22, the documents show. Burt, 47, of North Richland Hills had taught at Richland High for nearly three years. He cited personal family matters as the reason for his resignation, just days before the start of the high school baseball season. District records obtained under the Texas Public Information Act include a CD showing pornographic pictures and listing Web sites Burt accessed, many with labels such as "teen," "rape" and "virgin," records show.
Jonesboro elementary schools aim at students' needs; convert to ...
In August the Jonesboro School District elementary schools will become magnet schools. Magnet schools are schools designed around a theme.
The curriculum meets the Arkansas Department of Education guidelines, but is "taught with a slant that is more interesting to students that go there," said Donna Creer, executive director of the Magnet School Review Committee in Little Rock. "A magnet school is a school that attracts students based on their interest, need or ability in a particular area."
Creer said that drop out rates for magnet schools are lower than the state average, and test scores for students from magnet schools are higher when compared to the state average. Creer said that the data used to support these claims was several years old.
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National sees Govt's early childhood policy as sham
The National Party says the Government must admit that its election-year promise of free early childhood education is a sham. A recent survey found only one in five childcare centres will provide the scheme, which is supposed to provide 20 hours of free education a week for three and four year olds from July 1. National's early-childhood education spokesperson Paula Bennett says the subsidy the government plans to give is not enough. The Education Minister says it's too soon to say that the policy won't work and he's confident many centres will offer the scheme. .
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