| Middle-School - start preparing yourself for college | | Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:28:51 PM by Alex Molin | After middle school there's college, and if you have plans to get there, this is the time to start preparing for it. You might be thinking "preparing for college?
There is still time" but I suggest you think again.  Choose a high school that will help you develop your academic skills and will answer your career interests in such way that after you'll finish it, many doors will open for you.
Once you're there, don't forget to meet with the career counselor - he will be happy to tell you all about colleges and their requirements. Now is the time to take challenging classes in English, mathematics, science, history, geography, the arts, and a foreign language.
These will help you get prepared to the college studying experience. Try to develop strong study skills - you'll need them very soon. You can also talk to adults about their professions. This will help you get a good idea about different occupations and find out whether they are right for you.
If you have a chance, visit some colleges, talk to students. Try to organize recommendations from your teachers, counselors, etc. This will make the best impression when the time comes. It is also a good time to start saving for college and to investigate available scholarships provided by different institutes.
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| | | Crisis in New York City middle schools? | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:23:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | I.S. 33 is being phased out of a building that houses several schools in Bed-Stuy because the middle school could not make the grade. Former student Darius Brown describes life at the school. "Students don't listen, and teachers can't handle them," Brown said. "So they don't really teach them that much." A demonstration was held Tuesday on the steps of education headquarters to call attention to a new report on city middle schools. "They are failing our children drastically," said Carol Boyd, of the New York City Coalition of Educational Justice. "And by the time they all reach high school, they are so far behind that they're so frustrated, they have no alternative but to drop out." The report points out that in middle schools with low math and english scores, few advanced math and science courses are offered.... | |
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| | | Cameras Coming to Rome Elementary Schools | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:30:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Rome City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to use more than $435,000 to add security upgrades to schools. The project will install more than 100 cameras in all of the district's elementary schools. The middle and high schools already have a security camera system. Once the systems are in place, the elementary schools will all have single points of entry. The school district will also have the ability to monitor all the cameras in all the rome schools from a central location. The district will start installing the security systems at the end of the month. The installation could take four to five months to be completed. .... | |
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| | | Molokai High and Molokai Middle Schools' Library Project | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:08:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Since October, the freshmen class of Molokai High School has been actively engaged in a collaborative project with Mrs. Mokuau, our school librarian. The Molokai High and Molokai Middle Schools' library will undergo a mini-makeover in December 2006. The carpet in the library will be replaced with new tile flooring and students and others who are interested are invited to come up with an innovative new floor plan. On December 8, the library will close its doors for the holidays as books are packed and furniture are temporarily removed. When the installation is completed, the books and the furniture will then be repositioned according to the best floor design proposal submitted. There are math students utilizing conversions scales to develop a scaled drawing or a scaled model of their proposals while also preparing persuasive papers in their English classes to advocate for their floor design proposal.... | |
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| | | Middle schools seek accolade | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:07:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Carrington and Shepard middle schools are among 12 in North Carolina vying for designation as "N.C. Schools to Watch." -- national recognition no Durham school has ever achieved. Teams of education evaluators will visit all the schools in the next few weeks to determine which, if any, should be honored. The winners will be announced in January -- and will serve as models for other middle schools across the country. More than 20 middle schools across the state sent in applications in the hopes of being recognized. The field was narrowed to 12 based on a set of four criteria: academic excellence, responsiveness to students' needs, social equity and organizational structures and processes. "I was totally shocked," Shepard Principal Kenneth Barnes said regarding when he heard his school was one of the 12.... | |
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| | | Blinn middle blockers sign with four-year schools | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:18:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | BRENHAM - Former Leon High standout and Blinn College middle blocker Haley Thomas has signed a letter of intent with Baylor, Blinn head coach David Rehr has announced. Thomas, Blinn's 6-foot-2 team captain, is averaging 3.0 kills a game and is fourth in the nation in blocks at 1.9 per game. Her 355 career blocks ranks her second in school history. Blinn's Emily Gordon, a 6-0 middle blocker from Round Rock Stony Point, has signed with Central Arkansas. Thomas, setter Megan Loftis and outside hitter Hayley Ball were selected to the all-Region 14 first team. Second team honors went to libero Suzanne Childress and Gordon, while outside hitter Sabrina Daniel was given honorable mention. .... | |
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| | | Elite private school vows free tuition for middle-, low-income | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:24:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | In one of the most ambitious efforts yet to attract more middle- and lower-income students to an elite boarding school, St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., is promising a free education to students whose families earn $65,000 or less a year. The new policy follows efforts by elite universities, such as Harvard and Princeton, that guarantee free tuition to children of less affluent families, as long as they meet academic requirements. Tuition, room and board, and mandatory fees at St. Paul's next year will be about $38,000. "Many families look at places like St. Paul's as a complete wipeout of any college savings they've accrued," said Michael G. Hirschfeld, vice rector for enrollment and communications at St. Paul's. "We don't want them to think that." Only 17 of the 525 students at the school this year meet the criteria.... | |
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| | | Middle schools launch plan to close minority gap | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:21:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Two school principals and a state representative have devised a plan to help students at two Wichita middle schools improve their grades and stay out of trouble, while helping their parents become more involved in school. In doing so, Brooks principal Robert Garner, Coleman principal Stephanie Stovall and state Rep. Melody McCray-Miller hope to prove that children aren't doomed to fail just because they're poor or minority or from a broken home or a tough neighborhood. And they're determined to help kids stay in school and out of the juvenile justice system at the most vulnerable stage of their lives -- the middle school years, when experts say kids decide whether to become achievers or give up on school for good. "This needs to happen not today, not tomorrow, but yesterday," Miller said.... | |
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| | | Dallas High and LaCreole Middle schools offer upcoming concerts | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:31:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | A fall concert featuring a variety of musical styles and periods will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday by Dallas High's three choral groups. The following week, LaCreole Middle School will perform. The public is invited to both concerts at Bollman auditorium at Dallas High School, 1250 SE Holman Ave. "The kids worked really hard on this music," said choir director Jacqueline Lusk, who leads both schools' singers. "We love having an audience." Tuesday's performance features numerous solos from Dallas' 12-member Dragonaires vocal jazz group and the 28-member concert choir. Barbershop numbers will be sung by an ensemble of five young men, and the 32-member mixed chorus will perform popular music, Lusk said. "The program is interesting and varied," Lusk said. The 7 p.m.... | |
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| | | Spotsy needs new schools | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:04:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | When Spotsylvania County voters roll into their polling places on Tuesday, they'll get to vote on a $64 million bond referendum for school projects. School officials want to use the money to complete one elementary school and build another, put flexible, wireless and interactive technology in classrooms, and expand and renovate schools. Superintendent Jerry Hill said an investment in technology is critical. "If we expect our children to be successful in a workplace that is super rich in technology, we've got to expose them to a variety of technology that they'll know how to use," he said. Hill said the district needs to play a bit of catch-up, too. "The Windows 98 operating system [we're using] is pretty old," he said.... | |
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| | | Gang-related symbols found on middle schools | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:40:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | For the second time this year, police are looking for vandals who spray-painted gang-related symbols on the township middle schools. Detective Sgt. Tony DiLoreto said police discovered the graffiti after responding to a suspicious-persons complaint at Bobby's Run Middle School at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Bobby's Run Middle School and the Lumberton Middle School are adjacent. The back of both buildings and a storage shed behind the schools were spray-painted with gang-related graffiti. Many of the same symbols were spray-painted on the outside walls of Lumberton Middle School in April. A gang-related assault occurred at the school in May. DiLoreto said the graffiti included a five-point star and the terms Crip killer and Nine-Trey Gangsters, all of which are symbols associated with the Bloods, a violent street gang from Los Angeles that now has affiliates nationwide.... | |
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