Jan 21
IRON MOUNTAIN — This storm hit a large area of the central U.P.
For Dickinson County, it’s their first major snow of the year. But below that snow, was all that ice, which made for dangerous conditions.
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Jan 13
It was 8:30 on a crisp sunny morning at Strawberry Point School in Mill Valley and Bain LaPlant was on the playground, barking orders and encouraging the kids.
“One-two-three, eyes-on-me,” LaPlant said to the second- and third-graders gathered for morning physical education. As music played from LaPlant’s iPod, kids jumped rope or danced to Katy Perry’s “California Gurls.” One boy asked LaPlant to teach him to skip, while others needed help navigating and swinging the long ropes.
“I have been doing this for 10 years, and I love it,” said LaPlant, who gets the Marin County public school children for 30 minutes a day. “I see these kids every day of their school lives. It is all about fun and movement. We do things like play ‘hopscotch around the world,’ where we do different types of hopscotch played in different places across the globe.”
Another activity that gets the kindergarten through fifth-graders moving is the age-old game of tag – but modified for the season.
Jan 07
With a busy five days ahead, I had Monday off. Saunders returned to the court after less than 48 hours of rest to try and erase the memory of Saturdays fourth quarter meltdown. Did it ever. The Blue Devils earned a key league win over Pelham and, for all intents and purposes, made it a three-team race.
Here are all of tonights results
Alex Gendelman had 16 points and three assists. Teammate Darren Douglas scored 15 points.
Jan 01
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Perhaps the most telling part of Mohamed Sanu’s press conference Tuesday to announce his decision to enter this April’s NFL draft was when a reporter asked if there was anything left for him to accomplish at Rutgers: “Not that I can think of, no.” So, Sanu – a junior wide receiver who shattered both Big East and Rutgers single-season records for receptions this season, and finished the year with 115 catches, 1,206 yards and seven touchdowns – will join a deep receiving class headed to the NFL, rather than stick with the Scarlet Knights one more season. “After speaking to my family and looking at the pros and cons about staying and leaving,” he said, “we feel it is best to declare.” The 6-foot-2, 215-pound Sanu is a potential first-round pick, who had double-digit receptions six times this season, and posted seven 100-yard games.
Dec 11
Nearly half of America’s public schools didn’t meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No Child Left Behind Law took effect a decade ago, according to a national report released Thursday.
The Center on Education Policy report shows more than 43,000 schools — or 48 percent — did not make “adequate yearly progress” this year. The failure rates range from a low of 11 percent in Wisconsin to a high of 89 percent in Florida.
The findings are far below the 82 percent failure rate that Education Secretary Arne Duncan predicted earlier this year but still indicate an alarming trend that Duncan hopes to address by granting states relief from the federal law. The law requires states to have every student performing at grade level in math and reading by 2014, which most educators agree is an impossible goal.
“Whether it’s 50 percent, 80 percent or 100 percent of schools being incorrectly labeled as failing, one thing is clear: No Child Left Behind is broken,” Duncan said in a statement Wednesday. “Th