Published: May 14th, 2013
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Author: Ben Eames
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Vol. 47, No. 29
Two Missouri high school seniors have been honored by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.
Tiffany Lee, a student at Lindbergh High School in St. Louis, and Corey M. Matzat, a student at Branson High School, were named 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars for their academic achievement. They have been invited to attend National Recognition Weekend in June in Washington, D.C., where they will be awarded the U.S. Presidential Scholars medallion.
“This award is one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students,” said Missouri Commissioner of Education Chris L. Nicastro. “As two of our state’s most accomplished seniors, I commend these students for their commitment to their education.”
One young man and one young woman from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and from U.S. families living abroad and 15 students chosen at large were named U.S. Presidential Scholars. An additional 20 students were named U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts.
- Josiah W. Baker, Blue Springs South High School
- Slava S.
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Published: May 13th, 2013
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Author: Mia Lowin
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The inaugural Media and Cultural Studies Student Film Festival and Competition will be held Wednesday, May 15 in HUB 302.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Students and alumni of Media and Cultural Studies department at the University of California, Riverside will have their short films exhibited at the inaugural MCS Film Festival on May 15, 2013 in HUB 302.
Co-sponsored by the Associated Students Program Board (ASPB), the event is free for UCR students. Admission for non-students is $5.00
We hope to provide a platform that will encourage MCS students to continue making boundary-breaking work that bring excitement and excellence to both the MCS department and the UCR campus, said Thelma Annan, creative director of the event and a senior MCS major from Ontario.
Annan said that a total of 11 submissions in the categories of short, documentary, and drama, with team of UCR faculty judges picking winners in each category as well as an overall winner that represents the goals and ideals of the Media and Cultural Studies Department. Winn
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Published: May 10th, 2013
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Author: Jasper McWhae
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PEFâs Teacher Induction Program Graduates 73 New Teachers
Seventy-three first-year elementary school teachers celebrated their graduation from Public Education Foundation’s Teacher Induction Program on Thursday evening at the Chattanooga Convention Center. Supported by a partnership between the Benwood Foundation, PEF, and HCDE, the Teacher Induction Program provides support, feedback, assistance, and guidance to beginning elementary school teachers in Hamilton County Schools.
“Research shows that effective support programs for new teachers through the use of trained mentor teachers and regular professional development can improve new teacher retention, particularly in our high-needs schools,” states Clara Sale-Davis, Director of the Teacher Induction Program. “You have to give these new teachers hope. You need to establish trust and then offer them help and support in their teaching practices. That is what
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Published: May 8th, 2013
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Author: Ben Eames
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SALT LAKE CITY Finding investors for a new product can be as difficult as finding true love, or at least that was the concept behind a Speed Teching event hosted Tuesday by the University of Utah.
The event, organized as a form of entrepreneurial speed dating, gave Utah university representatives two minutes to pitch new homegrown technologies to a table of investors before moving on to the next station.
Representatives from the University of Utah, BYU, Utah Valley University and Weber State University showed off everything from innovative medical equipment to high-level electronics in an attempt to woo potential financing and, fingers crossed, get a phone call for a Friday night business dinner.
Bryan Ritchie, executive director of commercialization for the University of Utah, said the event was an opportunity to showcase the emerging technologies developed at Utahs schools. Each year, the states colleges and universities turn out roughly 500 new inventions, but reaching the marketplace typically requires outside investment, he said.
Wed love to have the investors pick up the technology and do something cool with it, Ritchie said.
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Published: May 8th, 2013
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Author: Mia Lowin
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In my last post, I noted that teacher educators who put shaping future teachers into social-justice activists above shaping them into effective instructors are, in my opinion, terribly misguided. I strongly agree with diminishing society’s inequities—and I think effective instructors, by narrowing the achievement gap, are doing just that.
One thing I did not mention is that the most effective instructors narrow the achievement gap in two essential ways: they build students’ knowledge and character (both of which contribute to achievement). Talk of character passes in and out of policy circles. Whether it’s shock at more teenage girls joining gangs or buzz about a book like Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, leaders tend to use character as an easy clap line without putting much thought into its cultivation.
But there are effective teachers who think about it every day. More impo
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