| 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.
Lee Mun Wah addresses race issues
On Tuesday, Feb. 27 Lee Mun Wah visited the campus of West Chester University to discuss the importance of race relations. He started his presentation in silence; he just looked out into his audience. Some of the first words he spoke were we, as a society need to get up and look at diversity closely or we will not see it.
Mun Wah was a special education teacher for 25 years. His notable production, "The Color of Fear," won the National Education Media Network's best Social Documentary Award in 1995. In those 25 years he noticed a trend in his special education students: that the majority, if not all of them, were African American. He also noticed that the schools were by far more hesitant to put the White students in the special education classes than they were the Black students.
Dual-Diploma Program with Turkey Shares SUNY Award for ...
In her native Turkey, Sumeyra Bayraktaroglu learned English when she was 13 and dreamed of becoming an English teacher because she loved languages. What she learned in her Istanbul high school was British English but she longed to taste American culture. So last fall, she arrived in Cortland to begin her studies for a dual diploma, both from Anadolu University in Turkey and from SUNY Cortland, in teaching English as a second language. Although the 20-year-old sophomore had expected to land in a metropolis the size of New York City, she says that SUNY Cortland is the perfect college for her to perfect her English skills. "Now I realize there are more advantages to studying here," says Bayraktaroglu, who hopes to earn a graduate degree in her field.
Board of Education makes redistricting decision
Pittsboro, NC - Chatham County Schools has been in the process of redistricting the elementary attendance zones for the Siler City and Silk Hope areas in preparation for the opening of Virginia Cross Elementary School this fall. A redistricting committee, comprised of parent representatives from Silk Hope and Siler City Elementary, principals of the two schools, Board of Education members, central office staff, and Superintendent Ann Hart, worked from December through early February to supply suggested zones for attendance at Siler City Elementary, Silk Hope, and the new Virginia Cross Elementary. The OR/Ed. Lab in Raleigh had created optimal scenarios from which the committee worked. During its meeting on Monday, February 26, the Chatham County Board of Education voted to use scenario D in redistricting.
Public education: for a better Florida
In the front office at historic, prestigious St. Petersburg High School, Newsweek covers are displayed on neat plaques. One says, "America's Best High Schools." Another says, "The 100 Best High Schools." St. Pete High, of course, is among them. The 109-year-old school is home to the first International Baccalaureate program in Florida and produces National Merit finalists by the handful. Last year, two of its graduating seniors headed to Harvard. In many ways, St. Pete High - Gov. Charlie Crist's alma mater - is an inspiring example of just how jaw-dropping good a public school can be. And yet facts buried on the Florida Department of Education Web site reveal another St. Pete High: Last year, only 57 percent of its ninth- and 10th-graders were reading at grade level.
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