Yearbook staff goes for edgy look
September 1, 2011
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Edgy and exciting – that’s what the Panther Parade staff wants when selecting designs for the 2012 yearbook. Joining Editor-in-Chief Gina Gomez, a third-year staff veteran, are Managing Editor David McGhee (senior); Business Manager Shelley Holland (senior); Special Features Editor Samantha Collins... Read more »
EOCs close in on students
May 2, 2011 • written by Anna Hanen
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Tests, tests, and more tests plague students as the school year draws its last breath. Although final exams and other tests are important to a student’s education, in the matter of grades, the End of Course (EOC) state test trumps all. The EOCs at Bartlett will take place May 3-5 and also the 10-12.... Read more »
Bin Laden raid years in the making, minutes in execution
May 2, 2011 • written by Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers
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By Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) WASHINGTON — It took years for the U.S. military to track Osama bin Laden down, finding him not in a cave in the inaccessible tribal regions of Pakistan, but in a sumptuous luxury compound built just six years ago in the same city that is home to Pakistan’s... Read more »
William and Kate’s wedding ‘a big British event’
May 2, 2011 • written by Henry Chu
Los Angeles Times
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(MCT) LONDON — If a single prince is in want of a wife, no one puts on a better show than the British when he finally gets one. That truth was universally acknowledged Friday when William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor, second in line to the British throne, married Catherine Elizabeth Middleton,... Read more »
Video games produce mixed report card for students’ classroom skills
April 1, 2011 • written by By Joe Robertson
McClatchy Newspapers
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — He’s only 9, so Michael Kelly’s analysis of what video games are doing to kids’ schooling is more instinct than all the new academic talk out there. “Picture that I’m Mario,” he begins. After some hand-on-chin pondering, the third-grader is shaping... Read more »
With proper instruction, all students may learn ‘gifted’ class skills, study finds
April 1, 2011 • written by By Jane Stancill
McClatchy Newspapers
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Here’s a brilliant idea: if you want smarter kids, treat them as if they’re smart. A U.S. Department of Education evaluation of a North Carolina program shows that when at-risk students are taught as if they are gifted and talented, they are likely to perform better academically. The... Read more »
Middle East protests, strife, attract world’s attention
April 1, 2011 • written by Stuart Settles
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In the Middle East, the word of 2011 has been “revolution.” Many countries in the region have protested against dictatorship-like governments. Some protests have been successful in bringing down their tyrannical leaders and some have added fuel to the fire in their already troubled country. The... Read more »
STEMulating the freshman mind
April 1, 2011 • written by Brianna Hall
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A new method of learning is coming to Bartlett High School and promises success for those interested. It is called STEM and stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. It is geared towards incoming freshmen and hopes to bring a new way of learning into the eyes of potential students. On... Read more »
Social network’s anonymity becomes weapon for bullies
March 31, 2011 • written by By Nirvi Shah
Education Week
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WASHINGTON — In waves throughout the school year, counselor Julia V. Taylor has found herself consoling students who have been taunted — often anonymously — on the social networking site Formspring.me. “We say this happens outside of school,” said Taylor, of Apex High School in Raleigh,... Read more »
Japanese crews scramble to contain radioactive water at nuclear plant
March 31, 2011 • written by Julie Makinen and Ralph Vartabedian
Los Angeles Times
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TOKYO — Japanese emergency crews are scrambling to contain rising levels of extremely radioactive water that has leaked into tunnels and basement equipment rooms at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, putting up dangerous new obstacles to workers trying to bring the reactors under control. Workers... Read more »