MARQUETTE — They say there are no right or wrong answers when it comes to looking at art, and it’s believed that makes an activity, like visiting an art gallery, relaxing for people who are experiencing memory loss.
Tuesday, the first ever “Gather at the Gallery” was hosted at the Devos Art Gallery on the Northern Michigan campus. It was hosted by the Alzheimer’s Association. The outing is modeled after a program that started in New York.
Members of Marquette’s Adult Day Services visited the gallery Tuesday and shared their thoughts of a few of the exhibits.
“It’s really neat to see how they will remember and will talk a lot about what the artist has done, and that’s always very interesting, but almost every time you talk about something, it will bring up a memory from the past,” says Regional Program Coordinator Heather Addison. “That’s the most fun part to watch.”
The Alzheimer’s Association is hoping to expand the program to those experiencing memory loss who are living at home. For more information, click here.
Three more exam errors have come to light this week, prompting Education Secretary Michael Gove to brand the blunders as “unacceptable”.
An A-level physics paper, AQA maths GCSE foundation paper and OCR GCSE Latin paper were all found to contain mistakes.
Both of the exam boards involved have apologised for these latest errors.
Qualifications watchdog Ofqual said it is “seeking explanations as to why these errors occurred”.
The foundation maths paper included a question featured on an exam taken by pupils earlier this year. More than 31,000 youngsters across 567 schools and colleges across the country sat the test earlier this week.
The AQA exam board said it is investigating how the problem arose.
A spokesman for the Department for Education said Mr Gove is angered by these and other mistakes.
“He has said repeatedly that the exam system is discredited and action must be taken. The department has been in close contact with Ofqual and the Secretary of State is speaking to them today to get a briefing on what action they are taking,” the representative said.
These are the latest in a string of exam errors this year.
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The Denver Public Schools board of education voted tonight to approve eight new schools, a new structure for West High School, and innovation status for six more schools.
All actions but one — innovation status for Swigert-McAuliffe International School — were unanimous. And Swigert was approved 6-1.
The board also voted to place a previously approved Denver School of Science and Technology at the former Byers Middle School building in Washington Park.
One new school, Elements Academy, was rejected — also unanimously — based on DPS staff recommendations that the application was not adequate, and that the leadership team was not qualified.
About five hours of public comment for Thursday’s votes was heard on Monday.
District staff reviewed all new school applications earlier this spring and made recommendations to the board.
During that process, three schools withdrew their application.
The new schools approved tonight include six new charter schools. Among them is an all-boys school for far northeast, the first West Denver Prep High School, and a new pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.
The vote on West’s changes came after months of community meetings in a process that was lauded by board members.
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Budget cuts in recent years have forced teachers to do more with a lot less. One program recently offered public school art classes the ability to use free, downloadable lesson plans created by “art star” contemporary artists, led by one who grew up and works in Los Angeles – Mark Bradford.
There are few rising art stars like Bradford. His honors, including the MacArthur Genius Award, have piled up in the last decade. So have exhibitions of his found-object abstract expressionist art at major museums in Miami, New York City and Chicago.
On this day, his welcome is a very unglamorous school buzzer at the start of an intermediate art class at Culver City High School. Kristine Hatanaka is the teacher.
“And I would love for you to let Mark look over what you’ve done. And ask him questions about his work or what you feel you’ve done and how it maybe relates to what he’s done,” says Hatanaka.
Wow, a famous artist evaluating student work? It’s more than that.
Bradford’s here because of a Getty Trust effort to create a bridge between contemporary artists’ creative process and classrooms across the nation and around the world. It’s called Ope
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To avoid the high cost of college tuition and the huge loans that go with it, some students are trying a unique if not drastic approach to save money. Its called marriage.
Heres the deal, according to The New York Times. At the University of California Berkeley, in-state tuition is $22,000 a year less than out-0f-state.
For students to prove theyre California residents, they must:
- Physically live in state
- Show they intend to stay, and
- Be financially independent.
Married students are able to claim themselves as financially independent.
The Times mentions one out-of-state student who married after her sophomore year at the University of California. When she divorced her husband after graduating two years later, she estimated her savings around $50,000.
Heres something else to consider: If a student marries before entering college, the couples combined income would be the number used by the schools financial aid office.
Obviously, two teenagers are bound to bring in considerably less than their parents.
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