Students who are gifted at a Tennessee elementary school produce a video news program shown throughout the school each morning. The fourth- and fifth-graders create the 5- to-7-minute program in the school's news studio equipped with a green screen, video cameras, a mixer, a laptop and other equipment, which was funded through a grant, fundraisers and private donations. "I've learned a lot and it's fun -- problem-solving, technology. ... We all have jobs, but we're all needed to fit it together," one student news anchor said. Farragut Press (Tenn.)
31 January 2010
14 July 2008
Cuts to summer-school programs may hurt struggling, gifted
Remedial and enrichment summer classes are being eliminated across the country as schools seek to balance budgets in a tight economy. "Cutting these kinds of programs is incredibly shortsighted, and will cost us more in the long run than we could ever save short term," said California state Sen. Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat. The New York Times/Associated Press
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