Interactive Distance Learning center to start meteorology class

Students at Newton High School will get to study meteorology in the new Interactive Distance Learning center during the next school year. USD 373 board members approved the course as one of several it gave approval to in a meeting in December.

Alford High School Opens Up Student Disability Fund to Extend Financial Support for Educating the Less Privileged

Alford High School opens up a special fund for disabled students to help them in earning an accredited high school diploma at a reduced tuition fee. The school aims to provide equal opportunity to less privileged members of the society who have the desire to acquire quality education (PRWeb February 06, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9168217.htm

Mac Bohonnon: high-flying skier on a mission

Mac Bohonnon squints in the bright sunlight, the rugged high peaks of the Adirondack Mountains looming in the distance like so many sentinels. He checks his bindings, flips down his glasses, and pushes off down a steep u-shaped ramp. Seconds later, he's hurtling 60 feet skyward, his body twisting and turning in flight before his skis slam the surface of a 17-foot-deep pool of water with a huge...

Tom Vander Ark: Flex Schools Personalize, Enhance and Accelerate Learning

Students spend 20 to 50 percent of their time online. The Bay Area's Rocketship Education is a high-performing elementary network where students spend two hours per day in a computer lab. KIPP Empower in Los Angeles has classroom centers that students rotate through.

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Orinda Youth Association -- Registration ongoing for the OYA tball/incrediball/baseball league. For boys and girls grades PK/K-8. 28 Orinda Way, Orinda.