| ELL students finish program
DALLASTOWN SCHOOLS — The Dallastown Area School District recently finished its summer program for English Language Learner students and their parents. Instructional Program Specialist Alma Row said 13 students, from first grade through high school, and two parents participated in the week-long program. The program helps the students and their parents to connect with the community and increase communication skills in English, Row said. The group took a virtual road trip through the United States to have a greater understanding of the country, she said. The trip started in York County and went to Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. Google Earth, literature, games and cooking were incorporated in the activities. "It was tons of fun," Row said.
Rann encourages schools to Be Active
About a quarter of South Australian schools have so far joined the Premier's Be Active Challenge for children to do an hour of physical activity every day. About 13,000 children are involved from reception to year 9. Premier Mike Rann says schools will be rewarded, the longer their students are involved. "This is all part of a program," he said. "The Be Active Challenge in its pilot form starts this year, we're putting about $1.8 million into it and next year there's going to be a ban on junk food in our school canteens." Tags: education, schools, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, health, exercise-and-fitness, sa .
Editorial Roundup
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Aug. 27 Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner, on the sentencing of convicted child killer John Evander Couey: For more than 45 minutes on Friday, Circuit Judge Ric Howard clearly, dispassionately and meticulously laid out the facts surrounding the kidnap, rape and murder of little 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. For observers, it was an agonizing, tear-inducing ordeal to hear how a small child could be so mercilessly brutalized and killed. ... When Howard finished, after time and again dismissing defense counsel's reasons for sparing Couey, he just as calmly dispatched the 49-year-old defendant to Florida's death row where this man, who two years ago became the poster child for a sex-offender scare that unsettled an entire nation, will await his much justified demise.
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