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ASCA Weekly Wrapup A roundup of the week's education-related headlines
Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
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County's Longest-serving School Counselor Feted
Gazette.net
For his final proclamation as Montgomery County, Md., Council president, Phil Andrews (D-Dist. 3) recognized a man who knew him back when Andrews had dreams of being a politician but was still a high school tennis star: Joseph Monte, his high school counselor. For thousands of students, Monte needs no introduction. He began teaching at Albert Einstein High School in 1962, the year it opened, and became a counselor two years later. More than four decades into a career in the office that rendered counselors "sort of minor league doctors on call," Monte started to think so long as he maintains the current level of health and support he enjoys from his wife, he "might as well go for 50." Read more.
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Scholarly Investments
The New York Times
Their company names were conspicuously absent from their nametags, but that is how these hedge fund managers and analysts, members of a field known for secrecy, preferred it. They filled the party space at the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in late October, mostly men in their 30s. Balancing drinks on easels adorned with students' colorful drawings, they juggled PDAs and business cards before sitting down to poker tables to raise money for New York City schools. Read more. |
Math Gains Stall in Big Cities
The Wall Street Journal
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Old West Lessons Change Students' Lives
Denverpost.com
When Ann Moore read "Cowboy Ethics," a book about what Wall Street bankers can learn from the Old West, she instantly identified it as the perfect teaching tool for her at-risk class of seniors at Cherry Creek High School, where half the kids had learning disabilities and one-third spoke English as a second language. "I knew it would resonate with them," she said. She might not have guessed that the curriculum she developed would spread to a dozen other schools in such states as Kentucky, Wyoming, Nebraska and Texas in the year since she offered the idea to her students. Read more. |
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Tiny Town of Pekin Shows Big Heart in Helping Its Own
Courier-Journal.com
Salem is in one direction. A big factory closed there. Borden is in another direction. A big factory closed there, as well. Many other regional employers employ fewer, of course. The people of Pekin mostly go elsewhere for work. They must. When jobs dry up, though, hands go out. They must. At the schools, more students eat free or subsidized lunches. They rely increasingly on school counselors to cope. Parent after parent asks about other aid, whatever, wherever. Of these tough times, Debbie Esarey, principal of East Washington Elementary School, said, "It seems to really have taken a toll on our little town." Read more. |
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Laughter is the Best Teacher
Craig Daily Press
Couri Blevins sat in science class during seventh hour Thursday at Craig Middle School, with a male pine cone in one hand and a female in the other. She looked quizzically from one to the other before addressing her teacher, Brynna Vogt." Ms. Vogt?" she asked. "Why is this male pine cone all pretty and the female one is all ugh? "Vogt tossed her blond hair back and laughed, telling Couri to ponder the difference between the genders for a moment. Read more. |
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School Counselor Thinks of Parents, Too, This Holiday Season
Journal and Courier
Some students would consider it a punishment to eat lunch with a teacher or counselor at school. But students at Miami Elementary School choose to eat with school counselor Debbie Gutwein every day. No wonder, family and colleagues at the Lafayette school say. Gutwein, they say, has made it a mission to help students and their families -- with this holiday season being no exception. Read more. |
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