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Story Archives of 'Education'
Nashua Adult Learning Center
By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, November 28, 2009.Mr. Olocho came to the U.S. from Kenya after receiving a green card through the immigration lottery. The Nashua Adult Learning Center helped him prepare for and achieve his U.S. high school equivalency degree.
The Recession Mindset
By Jon Greenberg on Friday, November 20, 2009.This week our series on the economy, Working It Out, has been asking, has this recession changed us. Jon Greenberg picks up that theme in our weekly economic round-up.
Lynch, Lawmakers Mull Building Aid Suspension
By Josh Rogers on Friday, November 20, 2009.The state now pays up to 60 percent of school construction costs. Governor Lynch says the law needs an overhaul, and some legislators want the program suspended for 2010. School officials say the move would jeopardize long-planned projects.
Bringing the Bronx to New Hampshire
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 19, 2009.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc broke ground when her award-winning book Random Family: Love, Drugs,Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx was published in 2003. She spent more than a decade closely observing three generations of a Puerto Rican family to create an intimate portrait of street life that was anything but pretty.
Random Family was a New York Times bestseller and was recently named one of The 50 Books for Our Times by Newsweek magazine. Tomorrow afternoon, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and two of the subjects of Random Family will travel to ConVal High School in Peterborough, NH for a day-long workshop with New Hampshire students. It’s part of the MacDowell Colony’s Community Outreach Program in the schools, and we’re catching up with Adrian Nicole LeBlanc before the workshop. We also spoke with Jill Lawler, an English teacher at ConVal, about what her students are learning from random family.
Unruly Kids Make Better Leaders
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 19, 2009.
Kids are notorious for getting into trouble. Whether it’s skipping class, picking fights, or slipping away in the family wagon for a midnight joy ride, mischievous behavior is a headache for most parents. What if breaking some of the rules was actually a sign of a child’s future success?
A new study suggests that children who push boundaries on occasion - like hosting parties while the ‘rents are out of town - are actually more likely to become leaders as adults. That finding flies in the face of the belief that those who follow the rules will make it to the top of the corporate heap someday.
With us to talk about why a little mischief might be a good predictor of a child’s future is Maria Rotundo. She’s an associate professor of human resource management and organizational behavior at the University of Toronto and one of the study’s authors.
Leadership Quarterly: Early Life Experiences as Determinantes of Leadership Role Occupancy (PDF)
Miller-McCune: Destined For Greatness, You Little Scamp
(Photo courtesy foamcow via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
The Sounds of Science
By Avishay Artsy on Monday, November 16, 2009.Here’s another way to make science appeal to kids – put it to song. Take one part Mr. Wizard and two parts High School Musical, shake vigorously, and you get The Sounds of Science.
Physics With a Side of Fun
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, November 16, 2009.
On Saturday, hundreds of middle and high school students gathered for a lesson in math and science at the first annual New Hampshire TechFest held at Pinkerton Academy in Derry. The all-day event wasn’t your typical science fair with shoebox dioramas and glue-gun and styrofoam planets.
Instead, students spent the day investigating crime scenes alongside police detectives, charting airplane paths with the National Air Traffic Controller’s Association, and resuscitating a simulation baby mannequin with its own pulse and blood pressure. Professional engineers joined in to show kids the technology they use, and explain why their jobs are more fun than anything they’ll find in a textbook.
Word of Mouth correspondent Robin Respaut covered the festival for us. She’s joins in the studio to tell us about technology and trebuchets.
Derry News: Pinkerton to host first TechFest event
(Photo by Robin Respaut)
The Specialists
By Deb Baker on Saturday, November 14, 2009.When Thorkil Sonne’s son was diagnosed with autism in 1999, he read up on the disorder. What he learned worried him: there is no cure for autism, there is less support for children with “invisible” disabilities like autism and almost no support for adults, and autistic adults often have trouble finding and keeping jobs.
Kingswood Youth Center
By Deborah Schachter on Saturday, November 14, 2009.When Mike Sproul was a teenager, he needed some positive adult role models. He found them at the Kingswood Youth Center.
Warmth from the Millyard: Clothing Drive and UNH Academic Program
By Mark Bevis on Friday, November 13, 2009.As the weather gets colder, social service agencies across the state have found a growing need for warm clothing among the people they serve.
The state's Food Bank distributes donated food to shelters and soup kitchens across the state.
But there's no such central repository for donated clothing.
Students at UNH in Manchester are trying to solve that problem...and get college credit at the same time.
For the third year in a row, they've organized the Warmth from the Millyard clothing drive.
Associate Professor Kate Hanson teaches the UNH Community Leadership Program.
She describes the students' efforts to NHPR's Mark Bevis.
