Here’s a round-up of national news coverage of President Barack Obama’s speech today to schoolchildren … New York Times: Obama coaches students to ‘get serious’ and study Education Week: Obama urges students to hit the books, persevere Washington Post: Obama lectures to students on virtues of hard work Los Angeles Times: Obama tries to motivate […]
Atlanta Public Schools students once again will get some much-appreciated help with their school work tonight when the award-winning Homework Hotline reopens its phone lines. The Hotline phone number, 678-553-3029, normally can be reached Mondays through Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. You can also visit the Web site: http://www.myhomeworkhotline.org. A joint venture between […]
About a week ago we cited a report by the AJC about The New Schools at Carver getting a $3,000 Youth Literacy Grant from Dollar General Stores. What the AJC, and we, failed to add was that Jean Childs Young Middle School also got in on the money in the form of a $5,000 Back-to-School […]
Fain Elementary today recently received a $500 book grant from Target. The school will host an Open House/Target Book Donation celebration at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, with a brief celebration in the school’s media center. Fain used the money to purchase textbooks from First Books. Hat tip to Fain Media Specialist and Communications Ambassador […]
The visit by Parks Middle School students and faculty to Canada is the gift that keeps on giving. The school will welcome author, educator and poet Dr. Afua Cooper (right), who will visit on Sept. 14. Dr. Cooper will appear at visual-arts classroom from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cooper is a noted historian and is the author […]
We continue our series on how APS teachers spent their summer. Next up: Maynard H. Jackson High math teacher Neville McFarlane, who used his Fund for Teachers grant (through the Atlanta Education Fund) to attend a photovoltaic and installation workshop in Colorado. What’s a photovoltaic and installation workshop, you ask? So did we. Here’s Mr. McFarlane’s […]
Fathers, including Mary Lin Elementary parent John Hammond, poised to walk their children to school Tuesday as part of the National Take Your Children to School Day. 2006 North Atlanta High graduate Marial Monyjok Yak, one of the 150 “Lost Boys of Sudan” who resettled in the Atlanta, dies in a car accident after returning […]
Here’s an amazing story, courtesy of Brenda Street, media specialist at D. H. Stanton Elementary. Street helped lead the school’s participation in the International Student Media Festival, and you’ll be delighted at how well the students did. Each spring there is a Georgia Student Media Festival sponsored by Georgia Association for Instructional Technology, Georgia Library Association […]
Atlanta Public Schools students will get a satchel full of support with the Office Depot Foundation’s “Back to School Backpack Celebration,” which will spread 750 backpacks to students throughout the system. The event will held on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 4 p.m. at the Office Depot at 2625 Piedmont Road. NASCAR star Tony Stewart will […]
We continue our series on how APS teachers spent their summer with our first duo: Nancy Hultquist (above right) and Kelley Jordan-Monné (left) from Morris Brandon Elementary. These two teachers traveled to Bamako, Mali, to continue to develop the school’s relationship with their sister school, Kalanso Espace Education. Kalanso and Morris Brandon began their sister-school partnership […]