Shorewood’s Trevor Mitsui has been named to USA TODAY’s First Team All-USA baseball squad.
Mitsui was selected in the 12th round (pick No. 390) in the 2011 MLB draft by Tampa Bay. The Rays also drafted his teammate, left-handed pitcher Blake Snell with the 52nd overall pick.
As a senior, Mitsui, a 6-foot-4, 225-pound first baseman hit 13 homers, leading the Thunderbirds to the Class 3A state-title game.
Probably not. A tweet from Cool Cat Teacher alerted me to the fact that the advanced Google search can provide results annotated by reading level (basic, intermediary, and advanced). That got me curious, so I plugged in a few websites and noticed that the U.S. Department of Educations, ed.gov, was off the charts70 percent of its pages are written at an advanced level, compared to 12 percent of Fordhams, for example. Maybe thats true of all federal agencies, I wondered, so I asked our research intern, Alicia Goldberg, to check it out. The results?
Yikes! Youre telling me that the Pentagon can post information on its website in an easy-to-read way, but the Department of Education cannot? Half of the federal agencies keep their advanced pages to less than 20 percent of their sites, but ED is at 70 percent? Come on, 400 Maryland Avenue, it looks like youd better get a jump-start on that plain-writing initiative.
Federal education officials say schools serving mostly black students are more likely to have inexperienced teachers than those largely serving whites, and few school districts have pre-kindergarten programs targeting low-income students.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the data shows that too many students are not getting access to classes and opportunities needed to be successful.
The information released Thursday is part of the Civil Rights Data Collection. More than 72,000 schools were surveyed on topics like access to rigorous classes and whether districts have written anti-discrimination policies.
Among the findings: Schools serving mainly black students were twice as likely as those primarily serving white students to have teachers with just a year or two of experience. Also, just 22 percent of districts had a pre-kindergarten program targeting low-income children.
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Joshua Mayers from the Seattle Times wrote a nice feature on former Husky Veronica Perez who is playing in the women’s World Cup this summer with the Mexican National Team. View the first paragraph below and click the link for the rest of the story.
Former University of Washington forward Veronica Perez is representing Mexico at the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany. Perez, a volunteer assistant coach for the Huskies, recently answered questions from The Seattle Times via email. Mexico earned an impressive 1-1 tie against England in its first group-stage game Monday.
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Purdue President France Córdova announced this afternoon her contract as Purdue’s president is not being extended following its expiration next summer.
According to her contract, she is to be president “for an initial term of five years, beginning July 16, 2007, and to continue thereafter unless terminated.”
Members of Purdue’s board of trustees declined to comment on the contract last month but during an afternoon press conference at Hovde Hall of Administration, Córdova confirmed she will step down in the summer of 2012.
Also attending the press conference was Córdova’s husband Chris Foster and chairman of the board of trustees Keith Krach who attended via telephone.
Córdova was appointed Purdue’s 11th president in 2007 and is the university’s first female and Hispanic president.