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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1981
Page
18
Education officials report higher standards in academics and behavior across six Cedar Rapids junior highs. Principals cite increased homework, stricter discipline, and more parent involvement as schools push students to meet tougher benchmarks.
A 48 minute video The Writing Process produced by 15 Cedar Rapids Community District staff will be shown nationwide with distribution from ASCD and NCTE. The program uses a $9 940 state grant and covers prewriting drafting revision and publication. The Cedar Rapids district will use it in in service sessions. At a Cedar Rapids Association of Talented and Gifted meeting on Oct 8 two speakers Duane Carnes and Paul Slappey discuss honors and debate for high potential students with 50 cent admission for non members. Johnny Appleseed birthday celebrated at Adams Elementary with an apple break and displays about Appleseed in the media center.
The 55th Scholastic Awards scholarship program opens for high school students with art, photography, and writing talents. About 100 tuition scholarships totaling over 150000 are awarded by various art schools and colleges nationwide. Complete information on dates and regions available by January from Scholastic Awards, 50 West 44th St., New York, NY 10036.
Education page guidelines request Cedar Rapids teachers to send news of awards activities by 10 a.m. Wednesday to Christie Wallace at the Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids 52406. Each release must include student addresses and the sender's daytime phone number.
Sixteen individuals pleaded guilty to drunk driving in Linn District Court First Avenue Division and received deferred sentences with probation to their attorneys or the Department of Correctional Services. Names include Thomas Wurster, Gary Schueler, Anita Cook, Danny Huston, Charlotte Carman, Ronald Lusk, Kaye Arenz, Gregory Mathieu, Larry Knight, Judith Newgaard, David Newgaard, Bruce Renken, George Ambdenstock, William Milota, David Kiecksee, and Charlotta Toth with arrest dates ranging from April to July and one case dating back to December 1980.
Educator meetings focusing on writing mathematics and young children occur this weekend in Iowa. The Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children holds a 1981 state conference at the University of Iowa Memorial Union. A Grant Wood Area Education Agency session for grades four through nine teaches problem solving. The Southeast Iowa Writing Project hosts its fall conference at the Amana Colonies Holiday Inn with Bettye Caldwell delivering the keynote on Early Childhood Education in the 1980s. Additional talks cover child abuse readers birth to six behavior management and family coping. Project Impact materials accompany the math workshop run 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. For details call 1-800-772-1746. Lucy McCormick Calkins headlines the writing conference, with sessions on how writers develop from kindergarten to high school and how to get kids to revise. She also speaks to Cedar Rapids teachers about children as writers. James Davis coordinates Southeast Iowa Writing Project activities and can be contacted at 800-332-8488 or 399-6784.
A reflective piece by Phil Pastore contrasts temptation with choices from youth. It recalls past discipline for student smokers on school property and hints at aging habits and memories tied to a coat in the closet.
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