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Blueprint to transform Career and Technical education
Category: 'Y' Written by Courier Newsroom
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the Obama Administration’s blueprint for transforming Career and Technical Education, by reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. Secretary Duncan discussed how the Administration’s plan will ensure the education system provides high-quality job-training opportunities that reduce skill shortages, spur business growth, encourage new investment and hires, and spark innovation and economic growth.
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Obama launches ‘Together for Tomorrow’ school improvement challenge
Category: 'Y' Written by Courier Newsroom
“Together for Tomorrow,” the joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and the Corporation for National and Community Service to spur community engagement in turning around our nation’s lowest performing schools, launched its School Improvement Challenge for the 2012-13 school year on http://TFT.challenge.gov.
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Urban League Charter focuses on education, self pride
Category: 'Y' Written by Ashley N. Johnson
The decorated, wooden sign displayed outside of the principal’s office with the inscription of three words: Dream, Believe and Achieve, are just a few of the words that sum up the principles the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School shares with its students on a daily basis. While the school, located in East Liberty, may be small, the love and compassion for its students and the sense of pride in one’s culture that fills the hallways is far greater than the largest building that anyone could build.
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| I CAN SPELL IT—One of the Urban League Charter School’s kindergarten classes practices the words they have learned how to spell.(Photos by J.L. Martello)
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Young engineers work to inspire students
Category: 'Y' Written by Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer
In Allegheny County, the growth of medical and high-tech manufacturing firms, hospitals, universities and shale oil mining companies has resulted in a need for trained engineers
Yet here and across the country, students continue to lag behind their international counterparts in primary science and math education, leaving many—particularly African-Americans—unprepared to take advantage of the high-paying, career positions available in today’s job market.
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| PREPARING FOR SUCCESS—Ninth graders at Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy raise their hands to tell members of the National Society of Black Engineers they know what they want to do. (Photos by J.L. Martello)
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Winchester Thurston raises an esteemed culture
Category: 'Y' Written by Courier Newsroom
by Malik Vincent
For New Pittsburgh Courier
For New Pittsburgh Courier
Nestled in the corner of Pittsburgh’s ever-evolving East End, Winchester Thurston—as it has for 125 years—strives to serve as a platform that catapults its students to their individual goals.
The institution, holistically, is comprised of three levels: the lower school (grades Pre-K which also has a second facility in the North Hills), the middle school (6 to 8), and high school (9-12).
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| LENDING SUPPORT —Winchester sophomore DeVaughn Robinson at a luncheon where donors gathered to support the institution.
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