Track Wars results
April 30th, 2011Here are the top-3 resultsfrom Fridays Track Wars meet at Rez.
Also Mondays WCSSAA rugby games have been called off by the soggy fields and the slo-pitch season is also on hold.
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Legislative education calendar May 2-6
April 28th, 2011This is the calendar of education-related bill hearings and events for May 2-6. Schedules are subject to change or delay.
MONDAY
10 a.m. House preliminary consideration
– Senate Bill 11-076 PERA contribution rates
10 a.m. Senate final consideration
– Senate Bill 11-109 Tax form check off for state preschool program
– Senate Bill 11-080 School turnaround plans
– Senate Bill 11-052 Higher education performance funding
– Senate Bill 11-265 Change in Mesa State name
– Senate Bill 11-245 Teacher preparation programs
Senate preliminary consideration
– House Bill 11-1121 Employment of felons in schools
Senate consideration of memorials
– Senate Joint Memorial 11-004 Calling for repeal of NCLB
1:30 p.m. House Education Committee, room 0112
– Senate Bill 11-133 Study of school discipline practices
– Senate Bill 11-204 Role and mission of CSU-Pueblo and UCCS
– Senate Bill 11-070 Services for special education students in college
9 a.m.
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Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: Columbia University and Northern Manhattan
April 28th, 2011A recent article in The Record recounts how community groups led by Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine, Alianza Dominicana, Inc. and Harlem Hospital Center helped 30,000 residents of Washington Heights, Inwood and Harlem get health insurance, immunized 8,000 children, trained 1,500 health workers and raised the area’s vaccination rate from 63 percent to 97 percent.
The story of this collaboration, both its successes and failures, is recounted in Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan, which is edited by Allan Formicola and Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero. The book discusses how the health partnerships grappled with the high rates of asthma, drug use, teen pregnancy, and violence in Washington Heights and Harlem.
Despite some continuing tensions, the program has improved relationships between Columbia and its surrounding neighborhoods. From The Record:
When Formicola began community work as a dean at Columbia, the University’s ties to the surrounding neighborhoods were rocky. Colum
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Connecticut mom pleads not guilty over school enrollment
April 27th, 2011NORWALK, CONN.: A homeless single mother has been arraigned for allegedly stealing educational services by sending her son to the wrong Connecticut school district.
Tanya McDowell pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony larceny.
She is charged with using her babysitter’s address to enroll her son in Norwalk schools last fall. Prosecutors say the 5-year-old belonged in Bridgeport, where McDowell had her last permanent address.
She is charged with stealing $15,686 worth of education.
McDowell told police she lives in her van and sleeps at a Norwalk shelter or a friend’s Bridgeport apartment. Her son now lives with relatives in Bridgeport and attends kindergarten there.
Her attorney is asking to move the case to another courthouse because the top prosecutor’s father is Norwalk’s mayor, who has been outspoken about the case.
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The Legacy of Jacques Derrida — Peggy Kamuf’s “To Follow”
April 24th, 2011If Derridas legacy is to survive into the future, youve got to read this book—Elissa Marder, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Peggy Kamuf has been one of the leading translators and readers of Jacques Derrida in English. Her most recent work, To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida was recently reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, who called it an illuminating and moving book.
The book is comprised of essays about Derrida centering around a key work from his work in order to focus on the critical and political interventions called forth in his thought. The review praises Kamuf for her attention to the subtleties of Derridas thought, his relationship with philosophy, and his legacy.
In conclusion, the reviewer, Elissa Marder, writes:
Who can tell what the legacy of Jacques Derrida will have been? This question, posed from the vantage point of an unknowable and unforeseeable future is, of course, impossible to answer here and now. But Kamufs elegant and lucid book takes us a long way toward beginning to think about how to read that legacy from now on. A
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5 Reasons Applying for the Pell Grant is a Smart Move
April 24th, 2011Applying for the Pell Grant is a great way to ease the financial burden that going back to school as an adult can cause. In fact, it’s one of the best federal student aid programs available to adult learners. My College Guide gives you five reasons why!
Applying for The Pell Grant
Pell Grants are open to almost anybody. The only requirements? You have to have either a GED or a high school diploma, and be working on your first bachelor’s degree. That’s it. There are a few instances where they can be used for post-baccalaureate teaching programs, but those are few and far between.
Applying for the Pell Grant is easy. In fact, you’ll automatically be considered when you fill out your Free Application For Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. Pell Grants eligibility is based solely on economic need, so there are no essays to complete or hoops to jump through. And as a working adult? The eas
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