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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1973
Page
4
Four Cedar Rapids schools Coolidge Taft Washington and LaSalle participate in Project BASIC Math a federally funded program to tailor math teaching to students learning styles.
Project BASIC replaces teacher structured pace with student driven progression in which tests determine next steps. District computer terminals track post tests, progress, and grouping to form ad hoc study teams while guiding decisions and reducing teacher workload.
Jones notes student responses vary from 55 percent positive to 90 percent. The project funds outreach with after school sessions at Taft and Washington centers, plus possible night courses. Regis and La Salle invited. La Salle accepts. Evaluation compares to teacher-led classes. Vander Wiel optimistic about gains.
Mark A. Gefaller, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Gefaller, will be awarded the Eagle Scout rank at a court of honor Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Hoover school with Mayor Donald Canney speaking. Gefaller, a Troop 29 member since 1970, has held leadership roles and attended Camp Wakonda and Grant Pilgrimage. He is an eighth grade Taft student active in band football and wrestling, and has played Little League baseball. He attends Concordia Lutheran Church.
The Coe College Concert Band presents a winter concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Sinclair Auditorium, free to the public. The Concert and Jazz bands toured the British Isles and Ireland last summer, with a spring tour planned for Illinois and Chicago audiences.
The Kirkwood Community College Pro Musica chamber choir will present a Christmas concert next Sunday at 3 p.m. in Peoples Unitarian church. Directed by Charles Traylor the 12 voice group performs The Christmas Story with narration by Ralph Latham plus other works by Mendelssohn Holst Shaw Parker and a women s trio. Debut soloist James Debb will join the program with Don Gillis pieces. Coe students Sue Brickley and Greg Anson assist.
Iowa vacationers should note that several states have no fault laws affecting non residents. Six states require non residents to carry no fault coverage while operating in the state, with Connecticut Michigan and Florida already in effect and Utah New York and Colorado scheduled to begin in 1974. Iowa National plans to add an out of state insurance endorsement to polices to satisfy these rules.
A classified ad urges readers to sell no longer needed but useful items to modernize a home, listing a contact number 398 8254 for inquiries and inquiries about the program.
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