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Le Hong Phong high school scores highest marks in 10th grade entrance exam

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Le Hong Phong high school scores highest marks in 10th grade entrance exam ảnh 1 Students attend the 10th grade entrance exam for the 2022-2023 school year the Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted in HCMC. (Photo: SGGP)

The school’s scores for the specialized classes in Chemistry with the admission registration aspirations 1 and 2 are 38.5 and 39; specialized classes in Literature with the admission registration aspirations 1 and 2 are 38.25 and 39.
The grade 10 entrance exam score for the integrated English program class with the admission registration aspirations 1 and 2 are 34.5 and 35.
The admission score for non-specialized classes with the admission registration aspiration 3 of the high schools for the gifted, Le Hong Phong and Tran Dai Nghia are 26.5 and 26. Examination subjects are Mathematics, Literature and Foreign Languages.
The 10th grade entrance exam scores of public high schools in the city will be announced on July 11.

By Thu Tam – Translated by Kim Khanh

Ankeny Community School District: 2022 Summer Academy

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School may be out for summer, but our teachers and staff stay committed to learning the whole year through.

June 9, 2022

School may be out for summer, but our teachers and staff stay committed to learning the whole year through! This week, nearly 500 of our education professionals attended Ankeny Summer Academy. A variety of courses were taught by national and local experts, including multiple sessions taught by our very own Ankeny staff. Thank you to the Academic Services team for planning and organizing this worthwhile event!

This press release was produced by the Ankeny Community School District . The views expressed here are the author’s own.

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St. Aloysius school kickstarts its 175 years celebrations in Visakhapatnam

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St. Aloysius Anglo Indian School kickstarted its Dodransbicentennial (175 years) celebration here on Tuesday.

Started in June, 1847, in a two roomed building by Rev. Fr. Joseph Tissot, the school has grown from strength to strength over the last 175 years, to become an acclaimed institution of English education sticking on to its motto ‘Virtute et Labore’, which means ‘Right Character and Right Effort’, said principal of the school Fr. S. Mariadas.

Children performing dance at St. Aloysius Anglo India School in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

Children performing dance at St. Aloysius Anglo India School in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT

Though the main event will be celebrated in the month of November, a programme was organised at school on Tuesday, to commence the celebration. The programme was graced by Fr. Suresh Babu and the children put up a scintillating cultural programme, braving the incessant rain.

School shootings rose to highest number in 20 years, federal data says

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WASHINGTON – School shootings in 2020-21 soared to the highest number in two decades, according to a new federal report that examines crime and safety in schools across the United States.

The 31-page report, released Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, also pointed to a rise in cyberbullying and in verbal abuse or disrespect of teachers over the decade that ended with the onset of the pandemic in spring 2020.

The surge in school shootings was stark: There were 93 incidents with casualties at public and private schools in 2020-21, compared to 23 in the 2000-01 school year. The record year included 43 incidents with deaths and 50 with injuries only.

The report uses a broad definition of shootings, including instances when guns were fired or brandished on school property, or when a bullet struck school grounds for any reason and regardless of whether students were present.

Ron Avi Astor, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, welcomed the broader definition, saying the report reflected a fuller picture, at a time when the 19 children and two teachers killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, remains close in mind. “If someone brings a gun to school and shoots it, that’s really traumatic,” Astor said. “It’s obviously more traumatic if somebody dies or is injured but the fear that that causes to all of the kids in school and all of the teachers goes far beyond the people who were hit.”

At the same time, some pointed out that schools are by far one of the safest places around for young people, who are more likely to be shot outside of school than inside.

“The increase in shootings in schools is likely a consequence of an overall increase in gun violence and not specific to schools,” said Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia. “However, most schools will never have a shooting, and their main problems will be fighting and bullying.”

Students ages 12 to 18 did not express great fear about their own schools according to the NCES report.

Less than 5% were afraid of harm or an attack during the school year, according to 2019 data the report highlighted. And the rate of nonfatal crime – including theft, robbery, rape and various types of assault – declined from 51 victimizations per 1,000 students in 2009 to 30 per 1,000 in 2019.

It was hard to square the positive trends with the rise in shootings, said Annette Anderson, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. “It’s a good start but I certainly would have liked to have a deeper dive on some of this,” she said.

Teacher difficulties with students increased in the last decade. Schools reporting verbal abuse of teachers at least once a week jumped to about 10% in the 2019-2020 school year, from about 5% a decade earlier. Similarly, schools reporting acts of disrespect for teachers rose to 15% in 2019-20, from 9% in 2009-10.

The percentage of public schools reporting cyberbullying at least once a week doubled in 2019-20 to 16%, from 8% in the 2009-10 school year, the report said.

Amanda Nickerson, a professor of school psychology at the University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education, did not attribute the rise in cyberbullying to the pandemic. “Part of that has to do with technology,” she said. “Kids are spending so much more time on computers, on cellphones.”

Twenty-seven percent of gay, lesbian or bisexual students in grades 9 to 12 reported being targeted by electronic bullying during the previous 12 months, compared to 19% of students unsure about their sexual identity and 14% of heterosexual students, according to 2019 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. Students were not asked if they identified as transgender.

Especially notable as the pandemic continues: Just 55 percent of public schools offered mental health assessments in 2019-20 and only 42 percent offer treatment. Stephanie Fredrick, an assistant professor who also teaches at the University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education, attributes that primarily to “inadequate funding or access to licensed professionals.”

Forcing kids to learn about gender and white privilege is indoctrination – schools should stick to facts & the three Rs

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REMEMBER when the priority of our schooling system was supposed to be “education, education, education”?

Today it’s “indoctrination, indoctrination, indoctrination” schools seem to be in the business of.

There is too much focus on race , too little reading and writing — and when it comes to lesson plans, too much gender on the agenda.

Parents increasingly find themselves locking horns with teachers turned social-justice activists.

It emerged this week the parents of a London teenager are at loggerheads with teachers at their daughter’s school after being barred from seeing lesson plans.

They are fighting for the legal right to see “secret” lessons their daughter has been taught on issues such as white privilege — the idea that people with white skin are born with social and economic advantages over those who are not.

Failed in the basics

This comes after the school, Haberdashers’ Hatcham College in South East London, reportedly denied the parents access to the materials used to teach their daughter.

So, let me get this right.

You’re forced to pay exorbitant taxes to prop up our bloated, ineffective education system, you then send your children off to school, at risk of prosecution if they don’t turn up, and you don’t even get a right to see what the predominantly lefty teachings are feeding your children?

You couldn’t make it up.

I see two major problems here.

Firstly, teachers should not be using precious learning time to brainwash kids about nonsense US theories on race and gender gibberish as if it is sacred truth.

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has said as much.

Last October he warned: “Schools should not teach contested theories and opinions as fact and this includes contested views about white privilege.”

This came after he was given a dossier by the Free Speech Union warning that the teaching of things like white privilege and micro-aggressions was “rife” in schools.

With identity ideology running rampant in classrooms, you would think we had already mastered every other core topic that teachers are supposed to be teaching, like — oh, I don’t know — reading and writing.

Wrong. Last September, Government figures showed 200,000 pupils would be entering secondary school unable to read properly.

Maths is no better. One in five leave primary school without having reached the expected standard.

Under these dire circumstances, not a single second should be dedicated to dubious race and gender theories when children are being failed in the basics on such a massive scale.

DANGEROUS IDEAS

And don’t get me started on the idea that kids should be taught that white children are endowed with some special, mystical privilege.

Tell that to the white working-class boys who perform worse in British schools than almost any other ethnic group.

As inconvenient as this is to lefty victim-mongers, this is irrefutable fact.

I know this because I’ve spent years poring over the stats, not least when I recently sat on the Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.

Publicly paid teachers squandering finite classroom time on woke drivel is not only misleading and pointless, it’s perverse and downright wrong.

The second problem is this: While parents are allowed to ask to see their children’s lesson plans, schools are not legally obliged to provide them.

Schools can hide behind the cloak of legal immunity when they are subjected to accusations of “secret lessons”.

How can this be right?

You should not have to write a softly worded letter to kindly request knowing what your own kid is being taught when you drop them off at school.

Schools should be completely at the mercy of parents when it comes to demands for transparency around teaching.

Teaching materials and lesson plans should be dished out speedily and without contest any time a parent requests one — and that should be enshrined in law.

That is why it is right that Baroness Morris of Yardley, a former Labour Education Secretary, has tabled an amendment to the Schools Bill to give parents the legal right to see what their children are being taught.

Mr Zahawi has made it clear that teaching children disputed ideas as fact is completely unacceptable.

He should go even further and confirm the law will be firmly on the side of parents who are concerned about identity politics propaganda in schools .

If he doesn’t, the infiltration of these dangerous ideas in classrooms will continue to be spread by the army of ever-more woke teachers.