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B.C. pizza chef tweaks recipe, surprises school cafeterias
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
A British Columbia pizza firm that changed its recipe because of new provincial guidelines found it also had to shake up the way cafeteria workers thought about kids' meals. The Panago Pizza chain has spent the past year tweaking its recipe in an effort to gain the top rating under new provincial guidelines on healthy school lunches that came into effect this month. Panago's executive chef, Jason Symington, traded white dough for whole wheat, added tomato sauce, tinkered with serving size and even did the unthinkable: added vegetables without making any effort to mask them.
Since when are education and eloquence liabilities in a president?
Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
Isn't it ludicrous even to ask such a question? Apparently not, in the presidential race of 2008...
Juvenile Asylum
Posted by Shemuses
Confronting racial profiling in schools. Metal detectors and security officers have become fixtures in public schools across the nation. At many of these schools, where students are predominately Black and Brown, "security" has become a code word for "racial profiling." One group of New York City high school students decided to take their schools security policies to task.
Denied kindergarten for being Native?
Posted by Shemuses from ABC Local
Five year old Adriel Arocha is being blocked from attending school in a Houston-area school district. The reason? As an Apache, he has long hair that he has been growing in his Native cultural tradition that "violates" this school's dress code rules. The parents of a kindergartener in Fort Bend County are fighting for his right to have long hair in school. They say it's about freedom of religion. The Needville Independent School District says it needs proof. When Adriel Arocha, 5, was born, his father, Kenney, vowed to teach him his heritage. "We feel that it's important to raise him as Native American until he's able to make a choice," said Kenny...
1 in 4 California high school students dropped out in 2006-07, state says - Los Angeles Times
Posted by Damianmann from Los Angeles Times
The state, using a new system for tracking dropouts, discloses a rate considerably higher than previously reported. About 1 in 3 students in Los Angeles Unified left school.
Her Dream, Branded as a Threat
Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
Debbie Almontaser dreamed of starting a public school like no other in New York City. Children of Arab descent would join students of other ethnicities, learning Arabic together. By graduation, they would be fluent in the language and groomed for the country's elite colleges. They would be ready, in Ms. Almontaser's words, to become "ambassadors of peace and hope." Things have not gone according to plan.
One Million High School Dropouts in U.S. Each Year
Posted by Shemuses
"When more than one million students a year drop out of high school, it's more than a problem, it's a catastrophe," retired General Colin Powell, founder of America's Promise Alliance. "It's time for a national 'call to arms,' because we cannot afford to let nearly one-third of our kids fail." His statement of urgency came during a press conference announcing the release of a study that details why nearly one in three U.S. high school students drops out before graduating and how his group plans to reverse the downward spiral of retention.
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