Youth Entrepreneurs Atlanta will stage its fall kickoff for the new school year for the program that teaches high school students free-enterprise fundamentals through hands-on learning activities. The event will be held Thursday, September 17, 2009, beginning at 10 a.m. at The New Schools at Carver. Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall, Georgia-Pacific […]
B.E.S.T. Academy and Burgess-Peterson Academy enjoyed a busy morning today as students, faculty and community partners collaborated on the new National Day of Service in commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A camera crew from NBC News was on hand to capture the moment at B.E.S.T. as members of community partner the 100 […]
There’s an incredible, heartwarming story in today’s AJC about Carver High defensive end Andre Johnson. During the offseason, the 16-year-old junior lost his half-brother, and his left eye, in a random shooting. But now Johnson is back and playing football for Carver. AJC reporter Christian Boone captured the spirit of Johnson’s comeback in the article, […]
This just in, from the AJC: Dinosaur feet designed by Grady High School art students will soon be available for public viewing. Modeled after the characters Buddy and Tiny in “Dinosaur Train,” the new PBS preschool program created by the Jim Henson Company, the four feet will be placed in various locations across Atlantato promote […]
We were thrilled local media were interested in visiting M. Agnes Jones Elementary while its students watched President Barack Obama’s national speech encouraging students to stay in school, study and work hard. Reporters from the AJC and TV stations dropped in on teacher Corliss Love‘s fifth-grade classroom. (Check out the AJC story here.) M. Agnes […]
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 […]