May 20, 2010

Long Middle School studies global warming with hands-on, year-end project

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd8TWTeC5Vg%5D You have to admire the students, faculty and staff of Long Middle School for not taking it easy for the remainder of the school year, as they focused on their third annual environmental project. The theme, “Evolving Environmentally,” allowed students create dioramas or eco-friendly structures that would support their research on the environment. […]

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APS students demonstrate largest gains in nation on 4th and 8th grade NAEP reading tests

[gallery link=”file” orderby=”title”] UPDATE: Watch the video here. APS students demonstrated the largest gains of all states and participating Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) school districts in the nation between 2002 and 2009 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading tests, the results of which were released this morning during a news conference […]

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