| Courses change for next year
According to changes from Ohio Department of Education and former Gov. Bob Taft's Core Curriculum, high school students who participate in interscholastic sports, marching band and cheerleading will now be able to count one full sporting season as a quarter credit for physical education. Students would need to play two full sports seasons to take care of their physical education credit for the high school. More changes are coming for other courses as well. Foundations of art will be split into a two-semester course beginning next year. The classes will be foundations of art 2D and foundations of art 3D. .
New program aims for sustaining agriculture
Trouble hits the Middle East and terrorism fears rise, a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast and diesel prices rise, an E-Coli epidemic hits the spinach crops and no one can feel safe about their vegetables anymore. All these and more are factors that push landowners and window box gardeners to look toward being more self-sufficient when it comes to the food they provide themselves and their families. Other landowners may be looking to create or supplement their income with agricultural businesses. With Carroll and the surrounding counties being heavily covered in rich, often unused land, it is no surprise that interest in learning ways to bring it to life has risen. In response to this need, the University of West Georgia's Department of Continuing Education has established the "Sustainable Growers School".
Office for Civil Rights investigating alleged discrimination at ...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights was at Cushing I.S.D. Monday, investigating a complaint filed by a parent. Cushing Superintendent Bob Caster said the complaint involved a student but he said he was not at liberty to discuss the details of the complaint or the investigation. However, he did say the complaint did not involve a school employee. "It's one of those things I wish I didn't have to deal with, but a complaint was filed and the district is being fully cooperative and making all records and personnel available," Caster said. Castor said he had been in school administration for many years, and that complaints of this nature are not uncommon, and allegations leading to an inspection does not necessarily mean that there was any wrongdoing.
Anthony Westbury: Single-sex classes merit a closer look
I read with great interest Margot Susca's story in Sunday's paper about an experiment in single-sex education at a local middle school. I'm a product, you see, of a single-sex education. Looking back, I think keeping girls and boys apart in the classroom during puberty is a real no-brainer. .
New ISU program to focus on kids with cochlear implants
NORMAL -- Illinois children born with hearing loss who receive cochlear implants should get better instruction to assist their hearing and speech, thanks to a teacher education program that will begin in July at Illinois State University.ISU announced Tuesday that the university has received a $778,941 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to train teachers, speech pathologists and audiologists throughout Illinois on how to work with children who were born deaf but now have the potential to hear.“I'm thrilled to be able to meet the needs of deaf babies and their families and to fill a void in the state," said Maribeth Lartz, ISU professor of special education and coordinator of the deaf education teachers' training program.“I think the grant is wonderful," said Dr. Michael Novak, chief cochlear implant surgeon at Carle Clinic in Urbana, downstate's only location for children's cochlear implant surgery.Teachers, pathologists and audiologists have been trained to work with school-age children, largely with sign language.
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