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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The family of the lone known U.S. prisoner of war says it's "cautiously optimistic" about reported renewed efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to win his freedom.
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, from Hailey in central Idaho, was captured more than four years ago in Afghanistan and is believed to be held in Pakistan.
The Washington Post reported Monday that the administration is seeking to resume talks with the Taliban, in hopes of exchanging Bergdahl for members of the group imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Post cited current and former officials who spoke on condition of anonymity as they outlined parts of a strategy they described as a last-ditch effort.
White House press secretary Jay Carney would not confirm the efforts when asked by reporters Tuesday. He said the U.S. is not actively negotiating with the Taliban.
"Clearly, if negotiations do resume at some point, then we will want to talk with the Taliban about the safe return of Sgt. Bergdahl," Carney said. "He has been gone far too long and we continue to call for and work towards his safe and immediate release."
In a statement, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, the captive soldier's parents, said they welcomed the development and applaud the "unity of purpose and resolve" being shown by the White House and other U.S. agencies in freeing their son.
"Today's news indicates there are renewed efforts to use diplomacy to recover our family's son, grandson and brother, Bowe Bergdahl," the couple wrote Tuesday in a statement issued through the Idaho National Guard. "We thank all involved for this renewed effort and we hope everyone takes this opportunity seriously. We are cautiously optimistic these discussions will lead to the safe return of our son after more than four and a half years in captivity."
The Bergdahls declined interview requests.
With most U.S. troops due to leave Afghanistan this year, the attempt to negotiate for Bergdahl's release has become more pressing. The bid to exchange the release of five Taliban members for Bergdahl showed a glimmer of hope as recently as last June before collapsing, the current and former officials told the Post.
A new proposal, which has not been formally made, would allow the simultaneous release of all five Taliban prisoners to protective custody in Qatar. The Taliban had objected to the previous plan to release the prisoners one or two at a time as a test of whether they returned to militancy, the Post reported.
Bergdahl's specific whereabouts are unknown, but a video surfaced in January that officials believe was taken in December showing the 27-year-old soldier, who appeared to be in poor health.
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The Numbers Game
Test match tenacity
Huw Richards
July 31, 2012
How long will Australia's George Gregan be the most-capped player in the history of Test rugby? © PA Photos
Records are there to be broken, but some are more resilient than others. Australian scrum-half George Gregan has held the all-time world record for the number of international appearances since he overtook Jason Leonard in June 2006, and looks safe for at least another year.
The closest challengers to Gregan's 139 caps are two Irishmen - Brian O'Driscoll and Ronan O'Gara, both on 126. O'Driscoll might be reckoned the better bet to get there first, since he's likelier to be able to add Lions caps next summer. O'Gara is also two years older, but misses fewer matches through injury and has a bloody-minded indestructibility that might just sustain him for longer.
Should either of them overtake Gregan, it will be a case of the record returning home. Where the all-time points record, currently held by Dan Carter, has been shared around the major nations, that for most appearances has been much more concentrated, and nowhere has held it longer than Ireland.
As with the points record, constructing a sequence of record holders involves making some tricky judgments, in particular over treatment of French players whose total included matches against 'minor' nations at a time when other countries did not count them. But those judgments come well down the line from the international game's foundation in 1871.
You might expect one of the players in that inaugural Scotland v England match to have been first to the landmark figure of 10 caps and founder of our line. Instead it was a comparative latecomer. Blackheath forward Max Marshall did not make his debut until 1873 but, aided by rapid changes elsewhere in the England team and the fact that Scotland was later starting fixtures against Ireland, was first to double figures by the Ireland match in 1878.
This also proved to be his last game and he was overtaken a year later by one of the veterans of 1871, Scotland forward Robert 'Bulldog' Irvine. England was not to recapture the record for 125 years, while Irvine's 11th cap inaugurated a Scottish dominance of the record that was to last for the rest of the nineteenth century.
All three Scottish record-holders were Academicals. Irvine, who won his first cap at 17 and was recalled by historian RJ Phillips as 'a very strong man' and 'among the greatest figures in the early days of the game' was an Edinburgh Accie. His medical career meant that he won his 13th and last when he was only 26, leaving a mark of 13 caps that fell to his club-mate William MacLagan in 1884.
MacLagan, a winger, was to be the first long-term holder of the record and to date the only one to lose, then regain the title. His missing the 1886 season allowed John Brown,a durable Glasgow Accies forward, to squeeze past him when winning his 19th and final cup in that year's Calcutta Cup match.
Brown's distinction was short-lived. MacLagan returned for the following year and won his 20th cap when Scotland entertained Wales, a match which also lives on in the record books for the five tries scored by Scotland's George Lindsay in a 12-try massacre about which Welsh historians are wont to remain silent. MacLagan, a ferociously competitive player recalled by Irvine as having 'roughness often imputed to him' and more bluntly by an unnamed team-mate as 'an ill-natured devil' ran up a final total of 29 caps, the last three as captain of the first Lions team to visit South Africa in 1891. That was enough to keep him top of the list until 1900, when the Scottish Accies gave way to the Welsh All Whites. First of the memorable Swansea duo who between them kept the record until 1928 was flamboyant fullback Billy Bancroft - already the all-time leading points scorer - who won his 30th cap when Wales completed their second Triple Crown in Belfast in 1900. Ending on 33 caps a year later, he was finally overtaken by his club-mate Dickie Owens, the inventor of modern scrum-half play, who won his 34th cap at Twickenham in 1912 in the final season of an international career that eventually amounted to 36 caps. In 1914 Welshmen held seven of the top 10 positions in the all-time caps list.
But they in time gave way to the Irish - and in particular Ulstermen. First up was threequarter George Stephenson, who won his 37th cap against France on the last day of 1928 and then overtook Billy Bancroft's younger brother Jack as the record points scorer on the day when he won his 42nd and last cap in 1930.
Quite who took those records from him is a matter for debate. What is not in question is that he held both for longer than any other player in rugby history. The French would argue a strong case for one of their giants, Jean Prat, who won his 43rd cap in 1954 under memorable circumstances, scoring the winning try in their first ever victory over the All Blacks. But 11 of those matches did not count, in the eyes of other nations,as full internationals.
The official narrative would instead rank Ken Jones, the Welsh winger who won a sprint relay medal at the 1948 Olympics, next in line. His 43rd cap, including three for the Lions, came at Twickenham in January 1956. Irish outside-half Jack Kyle, like Stephenson a medic trained at Queen's University, Belfast, tied Jones on 44 caps five weeks later, but did not overtake him until February 1957, shortly after the Welsh wing played his 47th and final Test. Kyle went on for a further year, overtaking Prat's final mark when he played his 52nd and last international on March 1, 1958.
Next up, through French eyes, was flanker Michel Crauste, who ran up a total of 63 caps (43 to the British) before his retirement in 1965. But the rest of the world continued to recognise Irish record-holders.
Kyle was not overtaken until 1971, when fullback Tom Kiernan won his 53rd cap. His appearance in the list is notable not only for the shortest reign as record-holder - a mere six weeks - but a rare incursion by a Munsterman into more than 60 years of dominance by Ulstermen.
It was Willie John Bride who, with Kiernan briefly out of the side, restored the red-handed status quo by winning his 54th cap against Wales in March 1971. And it was nearly 20 years before it went elsewhere. The giant Ballymena lock took his final total to 80 caps (including 17 for the Lions). That mark fell in turn to another Ulsterman, Mike Gibson - inheritor of Kyle's twin attributes of durability and creative genius - when he played his 81st and last international against Australia in 1979.
Gibson stayed atop the list through the 1980s, during which the rest of the world began to follow French in awarding caps for all appearances against other national teams. So when exuberant fullback Serge Blanco won his 82nd cap for France against Scotland in January 1991, few disputed his place at the top of the all-time list.
Blanco's Test career concluded exactly nine months and 11 caps later, in France's brutally tense home defeat by England in the quarter-final of the World Cup at the Parc des Princes. It was another Frenchman who overtook Blanco a little more than two years later, when Philippe Sella won his 94th cap. The brilliant centre became the first player to win 100 caps in June 1994 when France played the All Blacks in Christchurch and like Blanco bowed out with a World Cup tie against England, the abysmal third place match at Pretoria in June 1995.
On the opposing side that day was Jason Leonard, who was to overtake Sella in yet another World Cup match, winning his 112th England and Lions cap against Georgia in October 2003. As well as being the first specialist prop, and the first Englishman for more than a century, the amiable Barking man was also the first man on this list to get there with the help of replacement appearances, with 15 in his final tally of 119.
That every single record holder until then had come from one of the Five Nations was no fluke. Not until professionalisation and the coming of the Tri-Nations did southern hemisphere players get as many international chances. Once they did, the breakthrough was made with Gregan's 120th appearance, against England in June 2006.
Only six of Gregan's eventual total of 139 caps were won as a replacement, but if O'Driscoll remains a first choice (which seems likely) and fit (less certain), his record of 133 starts may go first. All but one of Driscoll's 126 caps have been won as a starter. A trouble-free autumn programme and Five Nations might just see him end the home season level with Gregan's mark as a starter and ready to take it outright next summer in Australia.
Holders of the most-capped Test player record sequence: (with final Test cap totals)
1878 Max Marshall (England) - 10 caps
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Five target shooting facility projects, including a new indoor range and hunter education classroom on the Brenham High School campus, will be sharing $420,000 in matching grants for construction and renovation, pending availability of federal assistance funds earmarked for the state's hunter education program.
During its Aug. 24 public meeting, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved an action item to allow the department's executive director to execute contracts with the grant applicants.
More than 19 million Americans safely participate in target shooting, according to National Shooting Sports Foundation statistics, and some states, including Texas, are seeing resurgence in competitive and recreational shooting sports among youth.
"Texas has the largest 4-H shooting sports program in the nation," said Steve Hall, education director with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. "Shooting clay targets with a shotgun is a growing sport at high schools and elementary schools across the country. More than 7,000 students from fifth through 12th grade now take part in trap, skeet and sporting clay activities and competitions in 35 states."
The Brenham High School facility exemplifies the kind of resources in high demand and short supply, said Hall.
"In many urban areas, there aren't places nearby where hunter education students can go to take the live fire component of the course," he noted. "There's also a need for target shooting facilities for law enforcement training and use by the general public."
The Brenham Independent School District is supporting the project to improve upon and relocate their existing range facilities to use for hunter education, ROTC, 4-H, law enforcement and the general public at various times throughout the year.
Matching grant funding of $240,000 was approved for the project's Phase II. Brenham received a $120,000 matching grant in April the last fiscal year for Phase I of their project.
The grants consist of a 75/25 funding match through the Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration federal aid program for hunter safety. TPWD's hunter education branch staff administers the grants.
"A project such as this is a major undertaking by the school district and we applaud their commitment," said Hall. "An indoor range facility has stringent requirements for air quality and safety."
In addition, the commission approved funding $30,000 for a new archery range facility on Lake Ray Roberts near Denton. The Lone Star 3-D Archery Range is the first of its kind in Texas and will provide Denton ISD students participating in the National Archery in Schools Program with a nearby place to shoot after school.
The program is a new venture of TPWD and its partners and is designed to provide Olympic-style target archery training for fourth through 12th grade physical education classes.
"Lone Star 3-D staff is working with the city of Denton by taking a public parking area that has experienced some vandalism and litter problems and turning it into a public recreation site with this renovation project," said Hall. "It's also next to a state park, which will provide visitors with an additional outdoor recreation opportunity."
Other target range projects funded include:
Elm Fork Shooting Park - This Dallas County facility will receive $60,000 in grant funding for range safety evaluation and enhancements to its rifle ranges. The facility is adjacent and named similarly to the Elm Fork Clay Sports facility that has received several prior grants from the department. Together, both ranges reach the greatest volume of shooters in North Texas.
American Shooting Centers, Inc. - A sporting clays range improvement project will be getting $30,000 in funding. American Shooting Centers, the largest public range facility in Texas and past recipient of target range grant funds, will be improving its world-class sporting clays facilities in West Houston.
Central Texas Rifle and Pistol Club - This facility near Waco will be receiving $60,000 toward range improvements and a classroom to better serve youth and hunter education instructors in the area.
Grants are available to qualifying applicants from both private and governmental sectors that provide public use and hunter education at their facilities. For more information on Target Range grants, contact Steve Hall at TPWD at 512-389-4568 or [email protected] .


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Jessica Biel has been feeling particularly fearless these days. "My latest thing is that I want to do everything that scares me," she says after ordering an egg, ham, and cheese sandwich with fries at a chic hotel in Santa Monica, California (a meal, it should be noted, that would induce panic in most other Hollywood starlets). The Colorado-raised 25-year-old recently got up the guts to go skydiving and conquered her fear of singing in public by belting out "Endless Love" at a piano bar in Paris. She is even thinking about traveling to Africa or Vietnam -- all by herself.
Taking risks has been paying off professionally too. She recently took on dramatic roles in the Iraq war film Home of the Brave and the highly acclaimed turn-of-the-century magician flick The Illusionist opposite Ed Norton and Paul Giamatti, a part she acknowledges she had to vie pretty hard for. "I don't give up easily," she says proudly. "Sometimes, you have to put yourself on the line when you want something and just hope that you don't get laughed at."
This month, getting people to crack up will be a sign of a job well done. In her new movie, the comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Jessica portrays a gay-rights attorney who ends up falling for her client, played by Adam Sandler, who is pretending to be coupled up with Kevin James's character to receive domestic-partner benefits. "Finally, I get to play the goofy outgoing girl, which is much more my real personality," she says. Case in point: She and her group of girlfriends have a tradition of getting dressed up in crazy '70s clothes and neon wigs and going roller-skating at a Los Angeles rink. The other night, they even donned the wigs to stay in and play board games. "I am just not this aloof and sexy woman,² she says.
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Check out IPCOD's Guide to Coming Out authored by Drake Spaeth, PsyD. You may also wish to read endorsements from Pagans like T. Thorn Coyle, Phaedra Bonewits, Arthur Hinds, and many more at the IPCOD site and IPCOD's official Facebook page.
"Recently I have re come out of the closet. I've been rebranding my core business and in the process of doing that, I've realized that I'd hidden part of myself away to fit in, and it didn't make me feel good, because not only was it denying a past choice I'd made, but because it wasn't realistic. If you search for me on Google, you'll find evidence that I'm an occultist fairly quickly.
Re-coming out the closet has been good for me. I feel like I'm in touch with a part of myself that I'd buried away and allowed to be buried. I'm not listening to fears or worries because I realize that if people choose to not do business with me because of my choices its actually better for me.
I'm out of the closet because I'm proud to be an occultist. I'm proud to be myself. There's no shame in my choices and the intolerance of others is not something I will support by choosing to hide myself for their benefit. If I make that choice I am denying an essential part of who I am and denying my community as well." – Taylor Ellwood, Magical Experiments
IPCOD founder Cara Schulz, who came out as a Pagan in a police station, has this to say about the importance of Pagans coming out of the "broom closet".
"When we've talked to people about this project, the number one question asked is why should Pagans come out? Should is not a word we use when talking about the decision to come out or not. Coming out to someone is a decision only you can make and it's a decision best made when you're mentally and emotionally ready to do so. Pagan Coming Out Day is not about shaming other Pagans and polytheists into coming out when they're not ready.
Rather than talk about 'should' – let's look at the benefits, personally and for our religious community as a whole, to coming out. Some of these benefits include the reduction of anxiety in your life caused by living a double life, developing closer, more genuine relationships with friends and family, and developing a positive self-image. It's stressful to hide a core piece of who you are from those around you. Another benefit is one that the LGBT community has experienced – a reduction in prejudice. In a study for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers found that, "heterosexuals tend to hold favorable attitudes if they know two or more gay people, if those people are close friends or immediate family members, and if there has been open discussion about the friend or relative's sexual orientation." This is why the LGBT community strongly encourages its members to "Come out, come out, whereever you are" – because it works for them in their struggle for equity. This is also why LGBT Pagans are often the most vocal in our community about the need for Pagans to come out. Being open and honest about our spirituality encourages a climate of greater tolerance and acceptance of Paganism as more people realize they know a friend and loved ones who are Pagan. But there are risks, too, and each person will have to access the risks and benefits unique to their own situation."
Some have expressed skepticism at the need for a Pagan "coming out" day. The problem, I think, comes from what we mean when we say "out" (or "in" for that matter). I'll be frank and open about the fact that I advocate for Pagans coming out of the "broom closet", and have publicly advocated this position when I give talks at events. However, being "out" doesn't necessarily mean plastering your car with bumper stickers, interjecting your faith into every conversation, or ostentatiously wearing a pound of Pagan "bling". It certainly doesn't mean placing yourself or your children in immediate danger if those are your circumstances. It means not living a double life, it means being out to your family, even if it's uncomfortable, and it means being willing to request and expect equal treatment in the workplace.
"Pagans should be mindful of the experience of the BGLT community. Specifically, that there's nothing like knowing someone who is BGLT, particularly a relative, to humanize BGLTs. This is as important for us as for them: without being humanized we're abstractions in someone else's hostile theological theories. The more of us that are out, the more humanized we become." – Dave Burwasser, Board Member Emeritus CUUPS and IPCOD Board member
Pagans being "out" about who we are to those who love us, to those we interact with on a daily basis, changes the world. Even the conservative Christian polling organization The Barna Group acknowledges this in their research.
"About 5% of America's adult population associates with faiths other than Christianity (e.g., Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, etc.). Within this group, about half (47%) were registered as Democrats, 30% were independent, and one-quarter (23%) were Republicans. The ballots of this group were most often cast for Barack Obama (62%) rather than John McCain (36%). The support provided to the Democratic candidate is identical to the backing this group provided to John Kerry four years ago (61%) …Among voters who had a favorable view of Wicca, Sen. Obama was the favored candidate 64% to 35%."
It is important to look at the language in that last line. It isn't about Wiccans specifically, but people who had a "favorable view" of Wicca. To further extrapolate, the family, friends, and co-workers of the estimated 1 million modern Pagans in America tended to favor the candidate favored by the majority of modern Pagans. But this isn't just about voting and politics, it is about eradicating stereotypes and altering perceptions. It's about changing the strange biases and assumptions that even "tolerant" people have about modern Pagan faiths. It's about not being thrown under the bus because "there isn't a Pagan in our office/school/organization". Again, coming out won't be a panacea for every Pagan, but if all who are willing and able took one day to say "I'm a Pagan", to humanize our often misunderstood religions, it could change more than any of us realize.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I serve in an advisory capacity on IPCOD's executive board. I'm working with this project because I think a unified effort towards 'coming out' is a needed one, a complimentary movement to our already vibrant Pagan Pride days. I hope you'll support IPCOD today, and help spread the word.


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'Parent Trigger' School Faces Challenge to Deliver
School created by 'trigger' law opens to high expectations
The parent-led battle to transform Desert Trails Elementary School into a charter school may be over, but the storybook ending that many charter supporters sought for the children in this Mojave Desert community may be even more challenging to achieve.
More than two months after the first school in the nation to be overhauled following a so-called "parent trigger" campaign opened its doors in July, many parents at the newly named Desert Trails Preparatory Academy say they are pleased with what they're seeing of the instruction, atmosphere, and administration of the new charter school.
But as the school's staff faces the daunting job of turning around a failing school, an unknown dimension of the task is what role these newly empowered parents will play in Desert Trails' future—and how quickly the community's wounds will heal after the divisive fight over the school's creation.
Concerned by poor test scores and the former school's failure to meet California Department of Education achievement goals for several years, a determined group of parents—bolstered by outside support—won a lengthy and highly charged petition drive and legal dispute in 2012 to transform Desert Trails Elementary into a charter school. The two-year campaign, made possible under California's 2010 Parent Empowerment Act, pitted parent against parent, denigrated some of the school's former teachers, and interfered with students' learning, some here say.
Debbie Tarver, Desert Trails' charter operator and executive director, said she is trying to insulate the school from the controversy brought on by use of California's first-in-the-nation parent-trigger law, which permits parents to petition for sweeping education improvement measures and staffing changes at low-performing schools.
Proponents of the law believe it gives parents a long-deserved right to demand change at deeply troubled schools; critics say it's an ill-conceived reform effort that gives outside operators with questionable motives undue influence in local communities.
"We cannot deny these students another year of being educated," Ms. Tarver said emphatically. "You want to see a battle or a fight going on, ... that will be my battle."
Current teachers and staff members at the school, located about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, say their primary focus is improving student achievement and nurturing young minds. Parents say they're encouraged by the school's stronger emphasis on academics.
And several of the 350 former Desert Trails students who returned said that although they miss their friends and former teachers, they're relieved to have a school climate with far fewer disciplinary problems.
"It's like a family here," parent Marquitia Salah said, after walking her sons to their classrooms on a recent morning. Ms. Salah, who enrolled two of her sons in the charter school, and whose children previously attended school in another district, added: "For me, this has been one of the best decisions of my life."
But it's unclear whether this community of roughly 32,000 people who are weary of the media spotlight—which included "Won't Back Down," a Hollywood movie inspired by the parent-trigger law—will support Desert Trails and its 540 students again. Ms. Tarver, who is modeling Desert Trails after her successful charter school in nearby Hesperia, Calif., admits she's facing tough odds.
"To have to turn the school over to an outside agency that you don't know anything about was hard on them," Ms. Tarver said of people in the community. "I understood the bitterness. But I wasn't the person that caused this."
Parent Power
Still vigilant after the contentious campaign to reinvent their former failing school are the parents who took up the fight with the help of Parent Revolution, a parent-trigger-advocacy group based in Los Angeles. The nonprofit group is funded in part by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation.
(The Gates Foundation helps support Education Week's coverage of business and K-12 innovation; Walton helps support coverage of parent-empowerment issues. The newspaper retains sole editorial control over that coverage.)
The Desert Trails Parent Union, a group that formed to garner support for the parent trigger, holds meetings in the public park adjacent to the school in plain view of Ms. Tarver's office window. A few union members walk around campus wearing Parent Revolution T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "I am the revolution."
But Ms. Tarver is trying to build a relationship with the 8,400-student Adelanto Elementary School District which is the authorizer for her three-year charter school contract. She is trying to distance the new school from the politics and debate surrounding the parent union.
The Parent Empowerment Act, which is commonly called the parent-trigger law, was signed into law Jan. 7, 2010.
A school is eligible for intervention under the law if it has:
- Failed to meet adequate yearly progress.
- A score of less than 800 on the state's Academic Performance Index.
- Been in corrective action for at least one full academic year.
- Not been identified by the state board of education as a persistently low-achieving school.
At least 50 percent of the parents or legal guardians of students attending the school (or those who would matriculate into the school) must sign a petition to request the local school board to use one of the following intervention methods:
Turnaround: Replace the principal and 50 percent of the teaching staff.
Restart: Convert or close and reopen a school under a charter school operator, a charter management organization, or an education management organization.
School closure: Close the school and enroll students at higher-achieving nearby schools.
Transformation: Replace the principal and other staff members who failed to improve student achievement; adopt comprehensive instructional reform strategies; increase learning time; establish community-oriented schools; and provide operational flexibility and support to fully implement the reform efforts.
Alternative governance arrangement: Undertake a "major restructuring of the school's governance arrangement" to boost student achievement.
The local school board must implement the requested intervention method selected by the petitioners the year after the petitions are submitted.
In September, she wrote a detailed letter to Desert Trails parents stressing the differences between the parent union and the academy's new parent-advisory council, which will help staff members implement school programs. While she applauded the union for its past efforts, she added that the school must "maintain a positive relationship with our authorizer."
Ms. Tarver encourages parents to support the school by wearing Desert Trails T-shirts sporting its new logo: an owl wearing a cap and gown.
Taking a break from volunteer duties in a kindergarten class, the parent union's lead organizer, Cynthia Ramirez, said the group understands that its activities must be separate from the school. Ms. Ramirez said the group strongly supports the new school and its leader.
"The tension left the minute the district left the school," said Ms. Ramirez, a mother of two Desert Trails students. "The teachers are here because they want to be here. They're happy. You can see it in their eyes."
Still, she said, parent-union members, emboldened by their Desert Trails petition drive, want to leverage their newly acquired power and knowledge to collaborate with schools and the district to boost student achievement at other schools. The union of about 150 parents is actively recruiting new members across the struggling Adelanto district and may even consider changing its name to be more representative of the entire community.
"We were just a bunch of angry parents who didn't like what our school was doing," Ms. Ramirez said.
Some Regrets
Yet at least one former parent-union leader regrets the divisive struggle over Desert Trails and is trying to create his own locally based parent-empowerment group.
Once an ardent Parent Revolution supporter, Joe Morales said he became disillusioned as tensions began to mount during the campaign.
Mr. Morales, who has two children enrolled at Desert Trails, claims that Parent Revolution organizers encouraged parent-union members to spread false information about the school's teachers and parents who opposed the trigger.
"Parent Revolution left a lot of heartache and a lot enemies behind," said Mr. Morales, who is still a Desert Trails Parent Union member. "They didn't know how to heal the people before they left."
Ben Austin, Parent Revolution's executive director, disputes claims that his organization intimidated or harassed Adelanto residents. He said the group has a strict code of conduct, which includes the so-called Los Angeles Times rule: "Don't do anything in organizing that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the L.A. Times."
Still, Mr. Austin admits that his group is trying to flesh out the role of parent unions once a parent-trigger campaign ends. Parent Revolution is reaching out to the National PTA for guidance, he said.
The path to opening for the first school initiated under a state parent-trigger law hasn't always been smooth.
Jan. 7, 2010
California's Parent Empowerment Act, also known as the "parent trigger," is signed into law (effective April 12, 2010).
Dec. 7, 2010
Parents at McKinley Elementary School, in Compton, Calif., present Compton Unified School District administrators with the state's first parent-trigger petition. Following a legal battle, the parents' effort fails. While a privately run charter school eventually opens in Compton, few of its students are from McKinley, according to news reports.
June 2011
After learning about the Compton parents' efforts, parents of children attending Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif., reach out to the nonprofit advocacy group Parent Revolution.
Sept. 15, 2011
The Desert Trails Parent Union is formed.
Jan. 12, 2012
The parents' union submits a petition to the school's principal, David Mobley, the first step to launch the parent trigger.
Feb. 21, 2012
The Adelanto board of trustees returns the petition to the parents' union after finding deficiencies that included missing signatures, dates, and school name. The school district also cites parents who said they signed "under false pretenses, misunderstood the petition, or otherwise signed the petition in error."
March 28, 2012
The board of trustees rejects the parents' petition, citing a lack of valid signatures and a failure to meet the minimum requirement of supporters needed.
April 5, 2012
Parents sue the Adelanto Elementary School District and school board seeking a judge's ruling to force the school system to accept the parents' petition.
July 18, 2012
San Bernadino County Court Judge Steve Malone overrules the Adelanto school board's decision to reject the petition. He orders the school board and district to "immediately begin the process of soliciting and selecting charter school proposals."
October 2012
- Victorville Superior Court Judge John P. Vander Feer orders the school district to permit the parent union to turn Desert Trails into a charter at the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.
- Parents recommend that the charter operator who runs La Verne Preparatory Academy in nearby Hesperia, Calif., be in charge of the transformation.
November 2012
Parent-trigger critic and Adelanto board of trustees President Carlos Mendoza loses his re-election bid, while Teresa Rogers, a member of the Desert Trails Parent Union, wins a seat on the board.
January 2013
- The board of trustees unanimously approves the parents' recommendation to select the charter school operator of La Verne Preparatory Academy to turn Desert Trails into a charter.
- Lisa Marie Garcia, a former board of trustees member and parent of a current Desert Trails Preparatory Academy student, is selected by the school board to fill the seat left vacant by the December resignation of Jermaine Wright Sr.
- Lily Matos DeBlieux, an assistant superintendent for elementary schools in the Monterey Peninsula district, is chosen to be the Adelanto district's superintendent.
June 14, 2013
Desert Trails Elementary School holds its last day of school.
July 29, 2013
Desert Trails Preparatory Academy, the new charter school, opens.
Mr. Austin acknowledges that his organization made some mistakes in past parent-trigger campaigns, particularly a failed effort in Compton, Calif. He said the group was too heavy-handed in running the Compton petition campaign, rather than letting parents take the lead.
He is adamant, however, that the parents ran the show in Adelanto. And he said that contrary to parent-trigger critics' assertions, no master plan exists to hand public schools over to billionaires' corporations.
"It's patronizing to think that low-income parents can't think for themselves," Mr. Austin said in a telephone interview. "The parent trigger is helping people who are traditionally powerless find power over the education of their own kids."
Edwin C. Darden, the director of education law and national collaboration for Appleseed, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes social-justice issues and parent engagement, said parent-trigger laws start with a confrontation—the petition calling for a school's transformation—rather than a conversation, which often leaves little room for negotiation.
He suggested that amending parent-trigger laws, like the one in California, to include a mediation process to identify the issues and the options available for improving schools could yield a more thoughtful solution.
"This is emotional for everybody," Mr. Darden said. "It's tough for both sides to dial down the drama and have a conversation about what they can and cannot change."
Reason for Involvement
Ron Griffin, who as the Desert Trails school's director manages day-to-day operations—a position analogous to that of principal—said he believes that parent engagement is the main solution to fix the public education system, especially for students from disadvantaged families. He said the school aims to embrace parents and help them be decisionmakers and partners in their children's education.
"We know that once you show parents the reason for their involvement, most will choose to do the right things for their kids," said Mr. Griffin, a former director of San Bernardino County's Head Start schools.
On a recent visit to the Desert Trails campus, parents could be found from the workroom to the classroom. Parents were permitted to walk their children to their classrooms and to sit in on lessons. A 1st grade classroom had so many parents show up for student presentations that they were spilling out the doorway. Another parent escorted a sheriff's deputy into several classrooms for impromptu talks with children after the deputy's planned visit to just one room.
"Teachers encourage parents to be involved now," said Loretta Gilbert, whose 6-year-old son is a returning Desert Trails student. "Parents are excited about being here."
Classrooms, especially at the lower grade levels, featured word walls, times tables, maps, behavior charts, and student work covering practically every inch of wall space. Students stood at attention and greeted visitors warmly in every classroom.
It's a tradition carried on from Ms. Tarver's Hesperia school—LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy—which had its beginnings, like those of many other charter schools, in an old strip mall.
The latest round of state school performance results shows that LaVerne Elementary has among the highest test scores in the High Desert area, which includes Desert Trails.
Challenges Ahead
Almost 100 percent of Desert Trails' students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. About 85 percent of the students are Hispanic, and 12 percent are African-American. (LaVerne Elementary has similar student demographics.)
Ms. Tarver, who calls her students "scholars," said she already sees academic growth among Desert Trails students, but she cautioned that progress would take time. She's already hired additional instructional aides after determining that some students are more than four years behind academically.
During the petition process, Desert Trails' state test scores were the lowest in the district, ranking the elementary school in the bottom 10 percent in the state. The school was on the federal watch list for low-performing schools. The latest round of state test scores, released this year, showed that Desert Trails' Academic-Performance Index dropped 53 points, to 647, on a scale of 200 to 1,000.
Ms. Tarver is moving forward with her school's education plan, which has teachers beginning to teach a grade ahead starting in January. Students can stay for an extra hour of tutoring with their classroom teachers three days a week. So far, about 90 percent stay in school. And every classroom has no more than 25 students.
Some of the academy's young teachers were unaware that Desert Trails has been at the center of a heated national debate. One teacher admitted that she had to Google the term "charter school" before her job interview. Still others, who came from LaVerne Elementary, said their only challenge is not letting their students and their parents down.
"I don't care who is watching me," kindergarten teacher Elfie Landa said during a lunch break. "I feel like there's too much at stake to worry about that. You have to get your students to love learning."
Looking back, Mr. Morales said he joined the Desert Trails Parent Union and aligned himself with Parent Revolution to secure a more promising future for his children and all Desert Trails' students.
"The pain, the stress, the false promises—that wasn't worth it," he said, sighing. "But Debbie [Tarver] and her school, ... that lady has a good heart and a good mindset when it comes to kids. I would do it again, if it was going to be her [running the school]."
Pulling the Parent Trigger
Vol. 33, Issue 08, Pages 1, 18-20Published in Print: October 16, 2013, as Parent-Sparked Charter Faces Challenge to Deliver
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In a shift from last summer's debt-ceiling standoff, tea party conservatives now aim to be seen as avoiding a government shutdown, even if it means accepting a higher level of FY 2013 spending.
If there's going to be a government shutdown fight, it won't be Congress's most conservative members leading the charge.
In a bid to avoid a potential government shutdown, several of the House's most conservative Republicans say they would be willing to go along with a six-month extension of government funding, which is currently set to run out at the end of September, at levels they've voted against in the past.
"This idea is going to come from the conservatives because if you listen to the Democrats, they say, 'It's the tea party conservativeswho want us to get to a government shutdown.' We don't want that and we're going to do everything we can to prove it," said Rep. Raul Labrador (R) of Idaho at a talk with reporters on Thursday.
While no Democrats have lobbed this charge yet, it may not be long in coming, considering that many of the Republicans who are now promoting the six-month extension plan have previously all but thrown themselves in front of the tank treads of must-pass measures with massive financial import (think the 2011 debt-ceiling increase and stopgap spending to keep government funded).
Tea party conservatives have insisted America simply can't afford the levels of spendingbeing authorized by Congress—and have been willing to take the country to the point of default or shutdown to defend that view.
So why are they on board with the move now?
The idea is spearheaded by Sens. Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina, the most prominent tea party figure in Congress, and Lindsey Graham (R), South Carolina's senior senator. It was laid out in a letter signed by 20 Republicans to House and Senate GOP leaders on Wednesday. But support for the move is wider than the initial signatories: Even Rep. Justin Amash (R) of Michigan, who voted against the Republican budget proposal in March because he said it cut too little from government spending, said he would vote in favor.
The thinking, as defined by supporter Rep. Jeff Duncan (R) of South Carolina, is that Republicans should pass what's known as a continuing resolution, or "CR," to extend government spending at an annual $1.047 trillion for at least six months.
That's a controversial figure for Congress's most conservative members. It's the highest spending allowed under the Budget Control Act, the compromise legislation that ended last summer's debt-ceiling fight. That legislation increased America's loan limit in exchange for imposing spending caps on the next 10 years of federal budgets and creating the "sequester" to slash government spending even further if Congress couldn't agree to deeper cuts.
House conservatives have fought to drive government expenditures below that $1.047 trillion level. The budget proposed by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin took an $18 billion bite out of that figure. A budget pushed by the Republican Study Committee, the group that is both the House GOP's largest and most conservative, favored a spending cap some $116 billion lower.
"This is the number that we all have voted against until now," said Representative Labrador. "We're saying that in order to prevent a crisis, we're willing to vote for that $1.047 [trillion] number.... It's going to be interesting to see how Democrats deal with that."
But averting a crisis isn't the only calculation: They're also trying to shrewdly position their caucus for a lame-duck session. They'll give up a lower spending level for an extension of funding into 2013 because they fear Democrats will use a looming government shutdown as leverage toward a lame-duck poison pill: a massive piece of legislation keeping the government open but allowing some of the Bush tax cuts to expire.
"What we see coming is [Democrats will] want a CR that will expire November 30, 1st of December, so they'll come back and try to hold the government shutdown over our heads to get a tax on the wealthiest of Americans who make more than $250,000 a year," for example, Representative Duncan, a freshman member, said.
What's unclear is whether leadership in either the House or Senate will take up the idea. "Given Senate Democrats' inexcusable failure to pass a budget or a single Appropriations bill, at some point we'll have to deal with the consequences of their inaction – but no decisions have been made yet on how to do that," said Michael Steel, spokesman for Speaker John Boehner (R), in an e-mail.
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi was noncommittal. "Leader Pelosi supports the House getting its work done, not more kicking of the can down the road over and over again," said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill in an e-mail.
A spokesman for Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) did not return request for comment.
In addition, it's unclear how a continuing resolution would affect the "fiscal cliff," some $600 billion in higher taxes and spending cuts set to slam the American economy on January 1. Lawmakers need to deal with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, $109 billion in spending cuts mandated by the sequester, the end of extended unemployment benefits, and a patch to the alternative minimum tax, among other issues.
Republicans who back the new plan have some hope that passing a CR could alleviate the need for a lame-duck session at all. That's important to them because lame ducks have historically been inhospitable to conservative interests: Their vital issues—such as the 2010 extension of the Bush tax cuts—are lumped together with other, less palatable measures—such as extended unemployment benefits—and offered in take-it-or-leave-it fashion.
Concerning the sequester and tax cuts, they say, they'll deal with that in January – free from the threat of a government shutdown.
An extension would get America past the November elections, stopping a lame-duck session and helping Congress avoid "playing all the gimmicks that have shortchanged Americans every time this happens," said Rep. Jeff Landry (R) of Louisiana.


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CALGARY — Brian McKeever's date with the Olympic history books is scheduled to become official Friday at the Canmore Nordic Centre.
The 30-year-old Calgary native will be unveiled as a member of the 2010 Olympic cross-country ski team.
Next month in Whistler, B.C., — barring injury — McKeever will become the first winter athlete to ever compete in both the Olympics and Paralympics and the first Canadian to ever accomplish the double.
Legally blind, McKeever has won seven Paralympic medals with brother Robin serving as his guide.
At the Olympics, McKeever will rely the remaining 10 per cent of his vision — all of it periphery — to race for gold. A keen memory is his biggest asset.
"Knowing the course is really important when you don't have a guide, because you can't rely on anyone else to get you through it," McKeever said last month after unofficially qualifying for the team with a stirring victory in a 50-kilometres Nor-Am race against able-bodied competitors.
"It's really important to know where the dangers are, where the corners are, and where the tracks are."
McKeever hopes to make tracks for other athletes with disabilities — regardless of whether they dream of competing in the Olympics or Paralympics.
For the record, he has big goals for both in Whistler.
"For me the ideal season is to go to the Olympics and then do what I want to do at the Paralympics," he said. "It would be a disaster for me to qualify for the Olympics and then race poorly in the Paralympics.
"It was never an either or thing for me."
Five athletes — all in summer sports — have competed in the Paralympics and Olympics: South African swimmer Natalie du Toit (amputee), American runner Marla Runyan (visually impaired), Polish table tennis player Natalia Partyka (born without right hand and forearm), Italian archer Paola Fantato (polio) and New Zealand archer Neroli Susan Fairhall (paraplegic).
At the age of 19, McKeever's outlook on the world changed — not by choice — when his vision began to cloud up after a lifetime of clarity. The rising star on the Canadian junior cross-country ski team was diagnosed with Stargardt's Disease. The same genetic disorder robbed his father, William, and aunt of most of their vision as children. So McKeever knew that a life of blurriness awaited him.
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Chelsea added global humiliation to their European embarrassment today as they became the first Champions League holders to fail to win the Club World Cup for six years.
A week and a half after making the wrong sort of history by crashing out of the competition that means the most to them, the Blues were at it again in Japan as they surrendered a trophy for the fourth time already this season.
Despite being firm favourites to beat Corinthians in Yokohama, they were outplayed and – more worryingly – outfought by the South American champions, who sealed victory through Paolo Guerrero in front of a partisan crowd of die-hard supporters.
Fernando Torres had a golden chance to take the game to extra-time – as Didier Drogba managed so famously in the Champions League final – but the Spaniard missed an absolute sitter and saw a stoppage-time header ruled out for offside after Gary Cahill was sent off.
It all added to the feeling that Chelsea's £80million summer overhaul had left them with a team of also-rans, interim manager Rafael Benitez unable to instil a winning mentality.
Defender Branislav Ivanovic claimed yesterday today's match could be the defining game for the current generation but it was their opponents who were the history boys, their tens of thousands of fans took their seats in the Nissan Stadium as early as the third-placed play-off.
They gradually cranked up the volume and unfurled a succession of supportive banners in similar scenes to those the Blues faced before the Champions League final in Munich.
That resulted in the fewest jeers and protest placards of Benitez's short reign but today's defeat will surely only strengthen the ill-feeling towards him.
Corinthians outworked Chelsea from the first whistle but there was encouragement for Benitez's men when a goalmouth scramble from a corner saw Cahill narrowly fail to stab the ball past Cassio in what came close to being arguably the first high-profile test of goalline technology.
David Luiz, restored to centre-half, did well to outfox Emerson after Juan Mata uncharacteristically passed straight to the forward, Corinthians being given too much space in midfield.
And Luiz came to the rescue again after wasting a free-kick from which the Brazilians broke, while Guerrero appealed in vain for a penalty, having brilliantly nutmegging Cahill.
Cahill then got away with a major error just before the half-hour mark as Emerson panicked after the defender's slip and blazed over.
Corinthians continued to call the tune and Emerson just failed to squeeze home Guerrero's cross-shot.
Torres had offered little threat but that almost changed spectacularly eight minutes from the break when he superbly brought down Frank Lampard's ball over the top only to stab straight at Cassio.
But the goalkeeper then excelled himself as a lightning Chelsea breakaway saw Hazard feed Victor Moses – the pair having switched wings – and the latter's superb curling finish forcing a wonderful fingertip save.
Cassio also held Mata's volley as Benitez's side ended the first half on top, and they continued to probe after the restart.
Lampard saw a shot charged down, Hazard was denied by the legs of Cassio after bursting on to an inch-perfect Mata pass, and Moses's knockdown was just behind Torres.
Jorge Henrique picked up the game's first yellow card for tripping Mata but, roared on by an increasingly fervent crowd, Corinthians began to apply serious pressure of their own, Paulinho firing just wide.
In a game this tight, Torres' inability to hold up the ball was threatening to prove costly and so it proved as Corinthians took the lead in the 69th minute.
Chelsea's defence simply stood off as Henrique and Danilo danced across the box, Cahill's block simply teeing up Guerrero to head home.
Corinthians celebrated jubilantly and it was too much for Luiz, who soon got himself booked for a foul on Emerson before Moses was hauled off for Oscar.
Benitez's lack of attacking options became apparent when he withdrew Ivanovic for Cesar Azpilicueta.
And Torres's Drogba moment finally arrived five minutes from time when the ball broke perfectly for him to beat Cassio from six yards but he could only send his shot straight at the keeper.
Oscar's control also let him down after he got in behind and Chelsea's misery was complete when Cahill was sent off for an off-the-ball clash with Emerson, Torres' header was rightly ruled out, and Mata failed to poke home from a narrow angle.


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|The Network.BSD module defines Haskell bindings to network programming functionality provided by BSD Unix derivatives.
|Host names
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Taking Screenshots on Your Laptop or Tablet
A Short Guide to Taking Screenshots on Your Laptop and Tablet
Diigo's Awesome Screenshot tool. Awesome Screenshot is a simple one step installation
TechSmith's Snagit. Awesome Screenshot will only capture things that are displayed in your web browser.
Snagit download the Snagit Chrome app and the Snagit browser extension. . Both tools allow you to draw and type on top of your screenshot images.
Macbook and Windows laptops:
Mac keyboard combination of "Command+shift+4" "Command+shift+3" will capture everything on your screen.
Windows computer Snipping tool
Jing to take screenshots on my Mac and on my Windows laptop.
Skitch If you have an Evernote account, you can save Skitch images in your Evernote account.
iPad and iPhone:
Taking a screenshot on an iPad or iPhone is a simple matter of holding down your "home" button (the big round one) and power button at the same time. The image will save directly to your device's camera roll. When I need to draw, highlight, or type on an image in my camera roll I turn to Skitch again.
Android phones and tablets:
As long as your device is operating on Android 4.0 or later you can take a screenshot by holding down your home button and power/sleep button at the same time. The screenshot should save to your camera roll unless you've designated another place for it to save. Once on your camera roll you can use the image in other apps for drawing, cropping, annotating, and sharing. Some Android devices, depending on manufacturer, include a built-in screenshot image editor.
Pixlr and Skitch. Skitch on Android offers all of the same features that are outlined above. Pixlr is a more robust tool that allows you to apply image filters in addition to drawing and typing on your images.
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Mechanical engineering is a diverse subject that derives its breadth from the need to design and manufacture everything from small individual parts and devices (e.g., microscale sensors and inkjet printer nozzles) to large systems (e.g., spacecraft and machine tools). The role of a mechanical engineer is to take a product from an idea to the marketplace. In order to accomplish this, a broad range of skills are needed. The mechanical engineer needs to acquire particular skills and knowledge. He/she needs to understand the forces and the thermal environment that a product, its parts, or its subsystems will encounter; to design them for functionality, aesthetics, and the ability to withstand the forces and the thermal environment they will be subjected to; and to determine the best way to manufacture them and ensure they will operate without failure. Perhaps the one skill that is the mechanical engineer's exclusive domain is the ability to analyze and design objects and systems with motion.
Since these skills are required for virtually everything that is made, mechanical engineering is perhaps the broadest and most diverse of engineering disciplines
- National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute"
- Mechanical engineers play a central role in such industries as automotive (from the car chassis to its every subsystem—engine, transmission, sensors); aerospace (airplanes, aircraft engines, control systems for airplanes and spacecraft); biotechnology (implants, prosthetic devices, fluidic systems for pharmaceutical industries); computers and electronics (disk drives, printers, cooling systems, semiconductor tools); microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS (sensors, actuators, micropower generation); energy conversion (gas turbines, wind turbines, solar energy, fuel cells); environmental control (HVAC, air-conditioning, refrigeration, compressors); automation (robots, data and image acquisition, recognition, control); manufacturing (machining, machine tools, prototyping, microfabrication).
- A copy of a valid passport at least for one year
- A copy of secondary school certificate (or university degree if applying for graduate program)


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Helabima is the heaven on Earth. The six heavens described in ancient literature were actually located in this island, Sri Lanka. The destroyed truth of our history must be re discovered... More »
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Meaning of name Mhairi
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Women of high caliber, Mhairi and Garsea are endowed with courage, ambition and an iron will. They are often of the choleric temperament. Rather excitable and quick-tempered, they need to feel galvanized and passionate about everything that they do. They possess a certain magnetism and seek to impress others which could be manifested by a certain eccentricity (perhaps by the way they dress). They appreciate material possessions and wealth, and could reveal themselves to be shrewd business women. Full of confidence, they are also acutely perceptive and intuitive so it isn´t easy to get anything past them! Thanks to their active imagination they are often inclined to over exaggerate and make mountains out of molehills... They are extremely energetic and hyperactive when they feel impassioned however they can also be quite aggressive at times! Nevertheless they can be very charming when they want something in particular and could have a real ascendancy over others if they are conscious of their master number 11 - but will they use this power wisely and honestly? With such qualities, Mhairi and Garsea are well-equipped for the game of life and they certainly leave a lasting impression on those they meet.... As little girls, they are cunning, tyrannical and possessive. Very impatient and irascible, they can be extremely touchy and can have trouble sharing with other children. It is therefore necessary to inculcate the notion of respect for others and teach them that sharing is to everyone´s benefit. It would also be a good idea to start giving them pocket money as soon as possible in order for them to learn how to manage their piggybank by themselves.
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All communities have their own landmarks, symbols, and people that make them unique places to live. In this lesson, students in grades 24 explore their towns using a variety of print and nonprint resources. By looking at brochures and other informational tools, students learn about some of the purposes for which people read and write. They also practice writing for a specific audience, revising their writing, and working collaboratively to create a brochure for new students just moving into town.
New Town Interview Questions: Students will use this handout to ask questions about experiences with moving to a new place and to create a brochure aimed at a student who is new to the area.
Duke, N.K., & Stewart, B.B. (1997). Standards in action in a first-grade classroom: The purpose dimension. The Reading Teacher, 51(3), 228237.
- Learning that people read and write for various reasons and learning about the purposes for which people read and write are two important-and often neglected-facets in children's literacy development.
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Ballistic Advantage 556 Modern Series 7.5 DRP Barrel
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