External News
| New
president at Northeast Lakeview College |
by SBG
SAN ANTONIO - News 4 WOAI | Pub: 01/19
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A new president will soon take the lead at Northeast Lakeview College: Dr. Veronica R.
Garcia will begin duties at the Alamo Colleges campus on March 1, 2017.
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| San
Antonio-area schools in the running for H-E-B awards |
by SILVIA
FOSTER-FRAU - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 01/19
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Two area school districts and an early childhood program are finalists in H-E-B’s annual
Excellence in Education awards, the biggest awards ceremony for education in Texas.
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| How
a New Program Is Keeping Kids Learning During the Summer for Free |
by JOY
DIAZ - TPR/Texas Standard | Pub: 01/19
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Right about now, as the spring school semester is starting, parents are starting to worry
about how their kids will spend their time this summer. Parents are enrolling kids in camps, sports and a multitude of other activities. But many summer camps and classes are costly, and not everyone can pay.
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| Supporting
Bilingual Children With Special Education Needs |
by FRANÇOIS
GROSJEAN - Psychology Today | Pub: 01/19
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One of the longest-lasting myths concerning bilingualism is that children with developmental
disabilities should not become bilingual, or if they already are using a minority language in the home, should stop using it. Thanks to new research in the field, this view is slowly being replaced by one that states that these children can indeed become bilingual,
or remain bilingual.
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| What
Singapore Can Teach Texas About Public Education |
by ROBERT
RIVARD - The Rivard Report | Pub: 01/17
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A caravan of Texas public educators and business leaders recently traveled to this island
city-state of 5.7 million people in Southeast Asia to learn more about one of the world’s most successful public school systems. San Antonio was represented by Eddie Aldrete, senior vice president of IBC Bank and a tri-chair of the 2017 Bond; David Crouch,
vice president of manufacturing for Toyota; Margo DelliCarpini, the newly-appointed dean of the College of Education at The University of Texas at San Antonio; Vanessa Lacoss Hurd, former CEO of The DoSeum and a former Teach for America executive; and Kate
Rogers, a vice president at H-E-B and acting executive vice president of the Holdsworth Center.
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The
UTSA Student Veteran Association (SVA), a registered student organization founded in 2011, has launched a new mentorship program for student Army and Air Force ROTC (AROTC, AFROTC) cadets.
Dr.
Rosalind Horowitz, professor in the Departments of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (ILT) and Educational Psychology, traveled to Beersheba, Israel, to meet with the faculty, students, and president of Kaye Academic College.
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