Each spring colleges and universities in the United States have graduation ceremonies, where the students who have finished their studies celebrate the end of their time at their school. The ceremony is actually called a commencement, which means a beginning. Students are ending their time in school, but beginning a new life as working adults (or living at their parents house and eating their food).
Most schools invite someone famous to give the commencement address (speech), in which the speaker gives the graduates advice on their next stage (period) in life. This year, for example, the University of Southern California invited Stephen Ballmer from Microsoft, Columbia University invited former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and President Obama was invited to Miami Dade College. It has become popular in recent years for universities to invite comedians and actors to give speeches. A
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28 Jun 2011
In this Newsletter:
1. Math tip: What is trigonometry all about? 2. How do you find exact values for the sine of all angles? 3. IntMath is now mobile! 4. Puzzle 5. Poll results 6. Teacher resource: Teachnology 7. Friday math movies 8. Final thought doing things right
1. What is trigonometry all about?
2. How do you find exact values for the sine of all angles?
3. IntMath is now mobile!
Finally, the mobile version of IntMath.com is ready. Its optimized for iPhone, iPod and Android devices, but will work on most devices with a full Web browser.
IntMath is the first major math site to have a mobile version.
Unfortunately, most mobile devices dont support Flash or java, but Im working on adding interactivity through other means (mostly javascript).
Give it a try and let me know how it works for you! (Just point your mobile device to any page on IntMath.com and it will automatically take you to the mobile version.
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Tags: Exact Values, Mobile
Gov. John Kasich’s top education adviser told an educators conference in Akron last month that the governor wants to close the poorest performing schools.
The state’s charter schools would face the same penalty, said Robert Sommers, who is director of the Governor’s Office of 21st Century Education.
Sommers said Kasich’s proposed budget would eliminate an exemption to a 2006 law that protects charter high schools with dropout prevention programs.
”As it’s defined right now, they would not be exempted,” Sommers said.
No more exemption? That was news to David Brennan, owner of Akron-based White Hat Management, one of the country’s largest for-profit charter school operators.
Brennan enrolls nearly 10,000 Ohio children in his 31 schools, including an online school.
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Tags: Schools, Schools Allowed
RIVERSIDE, Calif. () — After a national search, Brian Wickstrom, Senior Associate Athletic Director at the University of Texas at El Paso, has been named incoming Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at UC Riverside. The appointment was announced today by UCR Chancellor Timothy P. White.
“Brian Wickstrom brings exceptional qualifications and mission critical skills and experience to the AD position,” said White. “He has tremendous energy, a long-standing record of excellence in student athletics, and a strong understanding of the important role that athletics plays in the life of a research university. We are delighted that Brian will be bringing his skills to UCR.”
Wickstrom has served at UTEP for the past five years; prior to that position, he held leadership roles in athletics at the University of Michigan, Santa Clara University, the University of Missouri, and Ohio University.
Joseph Childers, UCR Graduate Division Dean, chaired the search. “The search committee was united in its respect for the many talents that Brian Wickstrom brings to the UCR athletics program. His succe Read more…
Tags: Riverside, Uc Riverside
COLUMBIA — Bojangles customers raised more than $20,000 for South Carolina teachers and public education.
More than 100 company-and franchise-operated restaurants across the state held a two-week in-store fundraiser where customers purchased $1 and $5 paper apples to honor teachers who made a difference in their lives.
Wednesday, the money raised was donated to South Carolina Future Minds, a nonprofit organization dedicating to supporting education.
Camden Middle School’s Lori Cooper, who happens to be the 2010-2011 Kershaw County was selected from the thousands of teachers honored online and in Bojangles’ restaurants during May’s Teacher Appreciation Month Celebration and awarded with a five-night Caribbean cruise.
“In times like this where budget considerations or budgets are tough its wonderful to see a company reaching out and appreciation teachers and showing us that what we do really matters,” said Cooper.
Cooper and her husband, who is also a teacher, plan to take the cruise in August to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary.
Tags: Carolina, South Carolina