Hamilton Southeastern High School coach Steve Guenin said his high school girls golf team should get a boost from winning Saturday’s regional.
“After not playing as well as we liked in sectional it was nice to see how the girls responded,” Guenin said in an email response to The Star. “We will celebrate this weekend, but then get back to work Monday.” The second-ranked Royals won the New Castle Regional at Westwood Golf Course with 305 strokes, five strokes better than No. 8 Yorktown. Fourth-ranked Noblesville, which topped HSE in the sectional, placed third.
The defending state champion will begin play in the state finals at The Legends Golf Club in Franklin on Friday.
Senior Brooke Beegle was low for the Royals with 73, finishing second.
“Brooke has been steadily improving the past few weeks,” Guenin said. “She had a nic
25 Sep
Posted by: Daniel Selwyn in: School Stuff
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24 Sep
Posted by: Archie Speight in: Education Sport Notes
Behind sophomore Melissa Eisele, the San Clemente girls cross country team produced an impressive team victory in Northern California.
Eisele won the individual Division 1 title to lead the Tritons to a team victory at the 2011 Stanford Invitational Saturday at the Stanford Golf Course in Palo Alto.
Eisele crossed the finish line of the 5k (3.1 miles) race in a time of 18:02, 18 seconds ahead of April Shonnard (18:20) of Carson High in Nevada, who was second.
Tritons senior Molly Mann (18:46) was sixth overall, as San Clemente (68 points) had four runners finish in the top 13 and five runners finish in the top 40.
Oak Ridge High (75) and Carlmont (173) was second and third in the Division 1 team race.
Fountain Valley (236) was sixth, led by sophomore Amber Bragdon (19:33) who was 24th.
In the girls division 3 race, Corona del Mar senior Ashlee Powers was the top individual county finisher, crossing the finish line in sixth place in a time of 18:16.
The Sea Kings (139 points) finished third, with Santa Margarita (140 points) coming in fourth.
23 Sep
Posted by: Alana Gormanston in: Education Advices
Ed Miliband is being urged by a key adviser to halve the number of universities in Britain and replace the rest with vocational institutions if Labour wins power.
The plan by the academic Lord Glasman would see elite universities stripped of their medical, legal and accountancy schools which would be transferred to the new colleges. This, he said, would remove any suggestion that the vocational skills were “second class”.
In wide-ranging comments – which will be seized upon by Labour critics – Lord Glasman also suggested that Polish people should be banned from working in Britain, said that Mr Miliband “loathed the humiliation of people” brought about by capitalism, and that Westminster should become the seat of a new English Parliament with the British Parliament relocated to the North of the country.
The peer is the intellectual leader of Blue Labour, a new group within the party engaged in a battle with its right for Mr Miliband’s ear as the party attempts to formulate new policy in the run up to 2015.
23 Sep
Posted by: Daniel Selwyn in: School Stuff
Long before there were federally funded turnaround schools, Nyree Dixon was turning around Brooklyns P.S. 12. When she became the Brownsville schools principal in 2006, barely a fifth of the elementary school’s students were passing state exams and the school was being considered for closure.
Since then, P.S. 12 has seen a jump in test scores and has stayed off the citys list of schools on the chopping block. Dixon attributes the improvement to changes in the school’s culture and instructional practices.
She joined Deidre DeAngelis, principal of New Dorp High School on Staten Island, on a panel during the conference on alternatives to school closures that several advocacy groups organized Saturday. The pair discussed the strategies they used to help their once-failing schools stay open and, in New Dorps case, turn into a model of successful school improvement for the city and federal education departments.
Those strategies — adding tutoring, offering more teacher training, connecting students and teachers, and engaging families — predate the structural and human capital changes the Obama administration has mandated for failing schools. They su
27 Aug
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PROVIDENCE — Installation of the new FieldTurf athletic field at La Salle Academy has been delayed for about a week because the blades of synthetic grass were the incorrect length.
The blades were 2.2 inches high instead of the required 2.5 inches.
La Salle officials are hoping the football/soccer/lacrosse field will be installed and lined in time for the opening of the Interscholastic League season in three weeks. They are trying to arrange for alternate sites for pre-season practice, which starts on Monday for sports other than football.
The football team has been practicing this week at the Dan Duquette Sports Academy in Hinsdale, Mass.