Hayden students try to refurbish 1950s truck in one week (The Steamboat Pilot & Today) The whirr of power sanders competed with Bon Jovi on the radio Tuesday as seven local high school students hustled to strip a 1954 International Harvester pickup in the Hayden High School shop building. ...more...Chrysler Group Vice President Kim Harris Jones Receives Peter C. Thorp Corporate Leadership Award (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Kim Harris Jones, Vice President Product, Procurement Cost Management Finance - Chrysler Group, was honored with this year's Peter C. Thorp Corporate Leadership Award by The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management during their 41st Annual Orientation Program and Career Forum in Indianapolis on June 12....more... Popular principal bids Norco school farewell (The Mercury) "Leadership is the art of getting others to do something that you want done because they want to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower NORTH COVENTRY -- Yesterday was Barry Flicker's last day of school. "There was no 'Ah-ha!' moment in planning my retirement," said Flicker, who carefully planned out what would be best for the students, staff and parents of North Coventry Elementary with ......more... Middle School Students Get Experience At Nurse Camp (KPRC Local 2 Houston) HOUSTON -- A Houston hospital hosted a camp to give students who have shown an interest in nursing and health care a chance to experience what really happens in a hospital, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday....more... Retirement for social studies teacher includes traveling in non-peak seasons (Republican-Leader) David Hokenson can hit the "snooze" without alarm, thanks to 90....more... Area students face off in business competition (The Journal News) High school students worked hard to persuade judges that their ideas for starting a new business could be feasible and profitable....more... Haverhill events announced (Eagle-Tribune Online) Northern Essex Community College has weekly informational sessions for prospective students and their families every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Behrakis One-Stop Student Services Center on the Haverhill campus, and every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. on the Lawrence campus....more... New Partnership with Leading School Improvement Group to Strengthen Student Achievement and College Preparation for CMS ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools today announced a new partnership with a leading school improvement group - the Parthenon Group - to better address the educational needs of the district's low-performing students and prepare all students for success in college and career....more... LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION (Las Vegas Sun) If there's one thing high school guidance counselors love to talk up, it's the value of planning ahead. Beginning July 1, Nevada's high schools will be required to develop a four-year plan for every ninth grader, with input from the student, parents and guidance counselors....more... |