05.26.06
Posted in News at 5:01 am by Paloma Cruz
UH alumni to serve as UH System regents
– reported by the Houston Business Journal
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has named two graduates of the University of Houston Bauer College of Business to serve as regents for the UH System.
Appointed were Welcome W. Wilson Sr. and Jim P. Wise to serve through Aug. 31, 2011. Their appointments take effect immediately.
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The UHS Board of Regents is the governing body for the system’s four universities: University of Houston, UH-Clear Lake, UH-Downtown and UH-Victoria.
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05.25.06
Posted in News at 5:50 am by Paloma Cruz
UH professor named to prestigious research academy
– reported by the Houston Business Journal
University of Houston mathematics professor Martin Golubitsky has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Golubitsky, Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at UH, is among 175 new Fellows and 20 new Foreign Honorary Members.
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05.24.06
Posted in News at 5:00 am by Paloma Cruz
Tax bill includes surprise for teens
Most students will soon have to take four years of science, math to get diplomas
– reported by the Houston Chronicle
An aggressive proposal tucked inside the Legislature’s property tax relief bill will require most students to take four years of math and science to graduate from high school — a move experts say will put Texas youngsters ahead of the pack academically.
Though most area educators applaud the concept, they’re now scrambling to figure out how to hire the extra teachers and build the new labs needed to comply with the bill, which is expected to be signed by Gov. Rick Perry in the next week.
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05.23.06
Posted in News at 4:51 pm by Paloma Cruz
HISD: They’re in class by themselves
Two educators, from Anson Jones Elementary and Carnegie High, are awarded $5,000
– reported by the Houston Chronicle
A biomedical researcher-turned-educator and a part-time college professor were named top teachers in the Houston Independent School District on Thursday night.
Sharon Moore, a fourth-grade teacher from Anson Jones Elementary School, and Paula Brown, an English teacher from Carnegie Vanguard High School, were honored at a banquet at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Moore and Brown were honored for their excellence as teachers at the elementary and secondary level, respectively.
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Posted in News at 5:46 am by Paloma Cruz
Dells to give $50 million to University of Texas
Gift will finance pediatric research, a computer science building and a center for healthy living
– reported by the Houston Chronicle
Computer billionaire Michael Dell and his wife will give a $50 million gift to the University of Texas for a pediatric research institute, a computer sciences building and a center for healthy living, the Dells and school officials announced Monday.
The Dell Pediatric Research Institute, to open by 2009, will be next to the Dell Children’s Medical Center, which is scheduled to open next year.
The new computer science building is to be built on the Austin campus. The healthy living center will concentrate on childhood development, focusing on battling childhood obesity, which can lead to other problems such as diabetes.
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05.22.06
Posted in News at 4:39 pm by Paloma Cruz
Bilingual students encouraged
– reported by the Pasadena Citizen
An effort to expand students’ future employment options begins at kindergarten level for Garfield Elementary School with its dual-language program, Two Way Immersion Program.
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The program has been an active part of the Garfield curriculum for three years and Garza hopes to promote awareness for the program throughout the entire Pasadena Independent School District.
The Two Way Immersion Program works in a collective classroom environment in kindergarten through second grade. Two teachers conduct a shared reading lesson in both English and a second language, which is designated by the school according to the ethnic demographic of that school, said Garza.
Because Garfield has a high Hispanic student population, Spanish is the second language used in the school’s program.
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Posted in News at 3:39 pm by Paloma Cruz
High schoolers who fled hurricanes score poorly on Texas test
– KTRK ABC Channel 13
Just one in six high school sophomores who were displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita passed a state standardized test that is a precursor to the exit exam they will have to pass next year to graduate.
Test results were just as dismal for other displaced high school and middle school students, who scored much lower than their Texas peers at every grade level.
Experts said New Orleans’ troubled school system was partly to blame, along with the trauma of adjusting to a new home and a new school.
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About half of Texas sophomores passed the English language arts, math, science and social studies sections of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. About 17 percent of evacuee sophomores passed each section.
While displaced high school juniors and seniors can earn a Louisiana diploma in Texas by passing their home state’s standardized tests and completing its graduation requirements, sophomores who choose to stay will have to pass the TAKS next year to graduate.
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Posted in News at 6:51 am by Paloma Cruz
HP grants headed to three Arizona schools
– reported by the Business Journal of Phoenix
Three Arizona schools, along with 167 other schools across the United States and Puerto Rico, will share in more than $7 million in mobile technology, cash and professional development grants as part of the 2006 Hewlett-Packard Co. Technology for Teaching grant program.
Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Mohave Community College in Lake Havasu City, and the Mission View Elementary School in Tucson will share in the money, that will help pay for new computers and other technology.
During the 2006-07 academic year, projects through this program will impact nearly 45,000 students, according to HP officials.
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05.21.06
Posted in News at 2:47 pm by Paloma Cruz
UH System, area colleges ink admissions pact
– reported by the Houston Business Journal
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The program, which starts in the fall semester of 2006, guarantees admission to UH System universities to all Houston-area community college students who sign this joint admissions contract during their first year in community college then complete the academic associate’s degree in good standing.
The UH System consists of the University of Houston, the University of Houston-Downtown, the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University of Houston-Victoria. The Houston area community colleges involved in this agreement include Alvin Community College, Brazosport College, College of the Mainland, Galveston College, Houston Community Colleges, Lee College, North Harris Montgomery Community College District, San Jacinto College District, Victoria College and Wharton County Junior College.
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05.20.06
Posted in News at 6:18 pm by Paloma Cruz
Area schools urged to prepare for pandemic
Campuses will be given materials, resources to help develop plans by next academic year
– reported by the Houston Chronicle
Houston-area school officials were urged Tuesday to begin work on a plan for dealing with a possible deadly influenza that could force health authorities to shut down campuses to prevent the rapid spread of the disease.
As health officials worldwide grapple with fears that an avian flu now sweeping the globe could mutate into a lethal superflu spread by humans, experts say schools have to prepare for the worst.
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Houston-area schools prepare for threat of bird flu
– reported by KHOU CBS Channel 11
Fear of the bird flu has local school officials hustling to come up with a plan on how to deal with a potential outbreak.
If the Avian flu gets here they could be hustling to lock the doors, but school closure is just one option that has been considered.
If bird flu hits Houston, school-age children could be among the hardest hit. It is estimated illness rates would reach 40 percent in the classroom.
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