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Breakthrough Students Thrive in the School Year

2 hours ago ago from Tartan Today

By Diosa Adams , Director of Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano is a program sponsored by St. Margaret’s that works to help local middle school students acquire the opportunity and skills to stay on the path to be the first in their families to graduate from college. At the same time, Breakthrough student teachers, who are enrolled in high school or college, are provided with a positive classroom ...

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Grade 8 Experiences a Day of High School

1 hour, 52 minutes ago ago from Tartan Today

At St. Margaret’s, the transition from Middle to Upper School is an important one, in which students gain increased opportunities and privileges and personal responsibilities as high school students poised for future success. This week, grade 8 students had the opportunity to step into the life of an Upper School student and experience for themselves the life of an upper classman and the new school that awaits them on the other side of ...

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International Community School Ranked in Top 100 Schools, Achieves Gold Rating | Kirkland Views

4 hours ago ago from Kirkland News and Events from KirklandViews.com

0 U.S. News and World Report magazine named  International Community School (ICS) in Kirkland, Wash. number 29 out of the top 100 high schools in the nation in their annual America’s Best High Schools rating, and gave the school a gold ranking.  Redmond High School (RHS) received a silver ranking. U.S. News and World Report uses a three-step process that analyzes: 1)      How schools are educating all of their students. ...

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OLSAT Testing Notifications Sent to Parents for NYC Gifted and Talented

1 hour, 38 minutes ago ago from NYC Gifted and Talented Program and Testing

Below is a notice from the DOE that just got released for non-public school students: G&T testing appointment letters will be mailed later this week to all non-public school students who submitted a Request for Test (RFT) form by the November 6 deadline. If you applied online, you also will receive an e-mail message. The letter will contain your child’s assigned date, time and location for taking the OLSAT and BSRA tests. Public ...

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They’re Staying Home in Westbrook-Walnut Grove

7 hours ago ago from Hindsight - From Minnesota 2020

You know the economic crisis is real when the Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School junior class trip to Washington, DC, is being reconsidered because the class can’t afford it. At the November WWG school board meeting, junior class representatives informed board members that they doubted that enough students would commit to the estimated $1200 cost to make the trip possible. The junior class is just shy of 60 students. Generally, a little ...

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Hillsborough school district celebrates $100 million grant

21 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com

TAMPA - It's no small feat winning $100 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So Hillsborough County public schools should be celebrating, said the foundation's education director, Vicki Phillips, during a reception Thursday at Jefferson High School. "We would not be making this effort if we felt we were building on an unsteady foundation," she told a crowd of educators, school administrators, state legislators and students. ...

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Mood at Akard Elementary event somber as officials consider closing school

20 hours ago ago from Media General - TriCities.com

Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This Mood at Akard Elementary event somber as officials consider closing school By Mac McLean | Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier Published: December 11, 2009 BRISTOL, Tenn. Thursday night's PTA meeting was a special time for a group of Akard Elementary ...

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Music Review: Notes of Ancient Greece in a Seldom-Seen Work

21 hours ago ago from The New York Times

The Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater keeps its students on their toes with a balance of unusual works they may never sing again and standard repertory that they will sing plenty. The audiences for these productions stand to benefit either way. The Manhattan School has a fine track record for turning out singers of consequence: Susan Graham and Dolora Zajick are among the program's alumni. And its repertory choices have been discerning. ...

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Kiss Surprise Students, Present Instruments to School in Need

7 hours ago ago from Noisecreep

Some middle school students in Tulsa, Okla. just had the thrill of a lifetime. All the members of Kiss -- in full stage regalia, no less -- showed up to present instruments to the school's music program . It all went down Dec. 9 at Tulsa's Wilson Middle School. The rockers appeared at the school as part of a segment for the ABC show 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' The show's carpenters -- along with a bevy of volunteers -- are rebuilding ...

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David A. Singer: Harrison School's Louis N. Wool Named New York Superintendent of the Year

5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Harrison is about a 35 minute drive north of New York City. Harrison is considered by the New York educational powers-that-be, a "low need" school district -- in that there is no abject poverty. But unlike other Westchester turbo towns like Scarsdale, Bronxville, Armonk, Rye and Chappaqua, Harrison is economically diverse. There are pockets of extreme wealth (at least before last year's economic melt down), there's a substantial working class ...

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