Career Training Schools News
- N. Greene looks at absences Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 12:50PMAbsences, truancy and how to curb school-skipping behavior was the biggest issue on the agenda at North Greene’s School Board meeting Wednesday night, according to Superintendent Les Stevens.The absence report presented to the board indicated that 20 percent of the senior class at North Greene was absent 11 days or more in the first 58 days of school.
- Margolis to Appear on Ageless TV Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 9:58AMWestport resident Estelle Margolis will be featured on an Ageless TV program on Friday, Nov. 21, and Friday, Nov. 28. Ageless is an interview show, featuring men and women 50 and older who defy the aging process. The program airs on channel 77 on Fridays at 6:30 p.m.
- Texas Education Agency Honors IBM With Employers for Education Excellence Award Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 9:33AM IBM today announced that it has received an Employers for Education Excellence Award from the Texas Education Agency, which recognized IBM for corporate policies and volunteer programs that help benefit public schools in Texas.
- Faas helped San Jose Sharks score in sports market Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 6:43PMCharlie Faas was on track to the top levels of corporate life. The New York native joined International Business Machines Corp. straight out of college and after 13 years at the company’s offices in the Hudson Valley was sent to California to supervise 90 people in various financial management positions.
- ‘Flash Flood’ to be inducted into SJP Hall of Fame Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 3:04PM Dr. James Flood, director of the Chemistry Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, will be inducted into the St. John’s Prep Athletic Hall of Fame along with 11 other alumni athletes on Nov. 26 at the Danversport Yacht Club.
- Military visit at Redlands High School Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 2:15PMREDLANDS - Tuesday was military day at Redlands High School.
- Schools prepare for mandatory school attendance age move to 18 Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 12:41PMThe Rapid City School District says hands-on learning will help attract and retain about 400 students who will be affected by a new law that requires students to stay in school until they graduate or turn 18.
- School Board members vote for proactive budgetary measures Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 4:23PMState education reform, the birds and the bees, and priority budgeting were addressed at the Nov. 11 meeting of the Uintah School Board.
- The mother of adolescent services in Brookline Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 2:50PM Today, Joan Sokoloff’s initiative has grown to include a variety of social programs aimed at helping young people and families at risk in Brookline and beyond. Her colleagues credit her with shaping the face of adolescent services in Brookline, while still taking the time to treat her clinical clients with care.
- Top of sporting crop Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 2:47PMHunter Valley Grammar School honoured its top sportspeople at an annual award ceremony last Thursday.
- After 25 years, teacher still loves her job Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 2:28PMCarol Wells uses a visualizer to project work on a screen for her students to see. -Vicki Tillis/Ledger photo LIBERTYVILLE - Carol Wells had just finished telling her fourth-grade students she was going to leave the dried flowers outside their classroom window so the birds could eat the seeds when three birds landed on the dried, brown stems and began to eat.
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- Kaplan Continuing Education Acquires National Paramedic Institute, Inc. Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 6:30AM DAVENPORT, Iowa----Kaplan Continuing Education , a leader in online continuing education, today announced the acquisition of National Paramedic Institute, Inc. , a South Florida-based company that provides online continuing education to firefighters and emergency services personnel.
- Ginny Dybenko: No shelter from the storm in the ivory tower Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 5:37AMAfter 30 years in technology management, Ginny Dybenko climbed off the corporate carousel two years ago to become the business dean at Wilfrid Laurier University.
- Ginny Dybenko: No shelter from the storm in the ivory tower Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 5:28AMIn conversation with Gordon Pitts, with exclusive video
- Valley schools Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 4:56AMAs part of our math curriculum, each of our math teachers was able to get a Classroom Performance System for use with the students.
- Mike Landman joins Woodstock Honda Thor crew Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 5:39AM Former Multiple Australian Motocross Champion, Mike Landman has joined the Woodstock Honda Thor crew in readiness for the 2009 racing season. A coup for the factory Honda outfit, the team st...
- Students exposed to health careers at USD Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 12:56AM High school students from a South Dakota and three surrounding states received a dose Tuesday of what it’s like to work in one of a variety of healing professions offered in the curriculum at USD Vermillion.
- Lowrey residents thankful for water Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 11:25PMTAHLEQUAH — A partnership among the Cherokee Nation, Cherokee County, the Grandview Rural Water District and Northeastern Oklahoma Public Facilities Authority has supplied the Lowrey community with safe and plentiful drinking water.
- Number of students attending ACE limited Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 11:23PMBEAUFORT -- The Beaufort County school board voted 8-2 Friday to stop sending students to four of the 17 programs offered at the Beaufort-Jasper Academy for Career Excellence.
