Stonewall Jackson Principal Wants to Bring Back Science Fairs to Other Kanawha Schools
685939
By Tony Pierro  tonyp@cnpapers.com 348-3022  Last week, seventh-grade students at Stonewall Jackson Middle School were getting excited about science.   Specifically, they were expressing their excitement at the results of the school's science fair.
94888
The ballroom is decorated with floor-to-ceiling paintings of shiny soda fountains, classic cars and the old store windows downtown. A stoop juts out from a rendering of the high school facade, so graduates can sit and talk &#151; just like in the old days. And just like in the old days, not everyone in town is invited.
768404
A white-supremacist organization is seeking permission to have a booth at next month's state fair featuring a suspect in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers.
194603
Science & environment: Primary schools could be fitted with science labs and teachers paid more money under new proposals.
627711
By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
608487
(InfoWorld) - U.S. industry and education leaders, including Intel chairman Craig Barrett, called on Congress to pass bills that would provide scholarships for math and science teachers and increase federal funding for research. Barrett, testifying before the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee Tuesday, said the two bills would be a "good first start" toward improving the competitiveness of U.S. workers and industry. Improved kindergarten-to-12th-grade education and increased funding for research were the top two priorities in a National Academies of Science report on U.S. competitiveness, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, released in late 2006. Executives and educators sounding the alarm about U.S. competitiveness aren't saying the "sky is falling," he said. The rest of the world is "copying what we did well for the last several decades," he said. "Our challenge is to do what is necessary to be successful for the next several decades." Congress has been slow to step up with policies that promote competitiveness, added Neal Lane, a physics professor at Rice University in Houston and former assistant to President Bill Clinton in the White House Office of Science and Technology. "In recent years, the U.S. has been reluctant to make the kind of long-term investments necessary to secure a bright future for Americans," Lane said. "We seem to have other priorities. My grandchildren and their generation will inherit a different America, and they think perhaps a used-up or worn-out America." Rep. Bart Gordon, a Tennessee Democrat and chairman of the committee, promised to push competitiveness bills through Congress this session, even though similar bills stalled during the last session. "There is a bipartisan consensus that investing in education and research...is necessary," he said. The first bill, the 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act, sets a goal of training 10,000 new math and science teachers per year for U.S. schools. The bill would provide scholarships for college students who want to be math and science teachers, with $70 million going into the scholarship program in 2008, rising to $196 million in 2012. The second bill, called the Sowing the Seeds Through Science and Engineering Research Act, would authorize a 10 percent funding increase in the research budgets at five U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. Gordon introduced both bills in January. In addition to the two bills, Barrett called for Congress to relax restrictions on the number of skilled foreign workers U.S. companies could hire per year. The current cap for the H-1B program is 65,000 workers per year, not counting an exemption for 20,000 workers per year who leave U.S. universities with graduate degrees. Barrett called on Congress to not put any hiring limits on the number of foreign workers who graduate from U.S. colleges. Congress should "staple a green card [worker visa] to every foreign student graduating with a degree in science and engineering," he said. Barrett's comments echoed comments from MicrosoftÂ chairman Bill Gates during testimony before a congressional committee last week. But Rep. Brian Baird, a Democrat from Washington state, questioned the need to expand the H-1B visa program without linking it to programs that require businesses to help train U.S. workers. "There are freeloaders," he said. "They pay [the H-1B fee], but if you ask them to do anything with the local school district to help out, they're AWOL."
675157
By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 8--PITTSTON TWP. -- Parents and supporters of Luzerne County's Catholic high schools are holding another meeting, open to all, Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at Convention Hall.
170606
By James Fuller Daily Herald Staff Writer  Hubble Middle School in Wheaton is not one of the 10 most endangered historic places in Illinois for 2007, but it might earn a future listing as the building's fate heads to a referendum in 2008.
127274
By Aman Batheja, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 8--AUSTIN -- Framing the issue as the latest front in the civil rights movement, thousands of parents, educators, and students descended on the state Capitol on Wednesday to support school vouchers.
524437
By LIZA FIELD  Miss Sydney Penn, Mama's history teacher at Roanoke's old Jefferson High School, began each semester with her one joke. "See here, class --" The dignified schoolmarm would point to a framed photograph.
663597
Atlanta, Nov. 11 - First, Georgia&#39;s education chief tried to take the word &quot;evolution&quot; out of the state&#39;s science curriculum.
538524
First, Georgia&#39;s education chief tried to take the word ``evolution&#39;&#39; out of the state&#39;s science curriculum. Now a suburban Atlanta county is in federal court over textbook
708435
By Julie Carr Smyth  COLUMBUS  --  Don't be afraid, Ohioans. It's only math and science.  That would be the message of a multiyear public awareness campaign that was among recommendations Monday by a panel studying ways to improve the state's high-tech future.
643548
By ADRIA HAIRSTONBY ADRIA HAIRSTON  Students at General Greene Elementary witnessed technology in action at the school's annual technology fair May 25.
171159
Some administrators are pushing back against an ethos of super-achievement at affluent suburban high schools.
29127
Alan Johnson is urged to allow teachers to use creationist materials in class to foster debate on Darwinism.
729282
By Scott Elliott, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Feb. 20--A statewide group of business leaders and educators wants Ohio  to make a strong push for more and better math and science education, matching  a similar effort locally.