Tri-County Sentry
Friday
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
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News On Education Word-Finds
Find and circle the words in the puzzle. The words read forward, backwards, up, down and diagonally. Moses Baby Boy Hebrew Nile Three Months Nurse Mother Sister Israelites Education Royal Palace Messiah Promise Choice Punishment Lessons
Answers on page 12A
To solve a Sudoku puzzle, place a number into each box so that each row across, each column down, and each small 3 x 3 square with the larger diagram (there are 9 of these) will contain every number from 1 through 9. In other words, no number will appear more than once in any row, column, or smaller 3 x 3 square. Working with the number already given as a guide complete each diagram with the missing numbers that will lead to the correct solution. Answers on page 12A
Sudoku
By Marian Wright Edelman These are the words of an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school in a high-poverty neighborhood in the nation’s capital: “Where I live, which is Ward 7, everyone is the same ... If you follow the crowd, you’re going to end up dead or in jail because that’s where most of them are. But if you’re a leader and you make your own decisions, then you can set your path for life.” Mike Ruff had to make up his mind a while back that he was going to step up and become one of the leaders. That’s what he told participants at the recent symposium, “Black Male Teens: Moving to Success in the High School Years,” sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the Children’s Defense Fund. Mike explained how he came to embrace standing out from the crowd by defying low expectations -- and how he reached a key turning point when a mentor told him he couldn’t succeed. College and career planning wasn’t a reality for the people he knew: “Ninety-five percent of
the students are poor. We come from basically nothing, because our parents were in the same situations that we are.” His father had dropped out of school in tenth grade, and when Mike started high school he seemed to be heading down a similar track: “Ninety percent of the school did the same thing I did -- skipped class, left school, and no one seemed to try to find out what the problem was.” His grade point average freshman year was a 2.5, and at the time his main ambition was to keep up a D average so he could graduate. But then he met with Mr. Mungin, one of the adults he’d met through an
enrichment program he’d enrolled in during middle school, who asked Mike how his plans for life after high school were coming. Mike told Mr. Mungin he’d started thinking about a career in hospitality management, and Mr. Mungin asked to see his grades: “So he looked at my transcript, just for that ninth grade year ... saw my grades, D, D, B, D, D, A, and looked back up at me with the straightest face and said, ‘You can’t do it.’ So that kind of hurt me, for a grown man telling me that I can't do something. So then I just got up, walked out, and [caught] the bus home.” MENTORS, See page 12A
Web Site Publishes Top 25 Scholarships for Women in 2013-2014
Crossword Companion
Across 1. Bit of Masterpiece Theatre 6. Midnight repast 11. Greek goddess of wisdom 12. Frank John _____ of Players 14. The Adventures of Sir Francis _______ 15. Designing Women’s state (abbr.) 16. Assess 17. Air (comb. form) 18. “When Harry _____ Sally” 19. “A Bug’s Life” princess 20. Sleep stage, for short 21. Paradises 23. Camera type (abbr.) 24. Claire on Six Feet Under, e.g. 26. Nurture 28. Plural ending 29. Murray and Dreyfuss e.g. 31. A laugh-a-minute 33. Infield pos. 35. New Jersey cagers 37. Weaving machine 39. Carol Burnett, to Julie Andrews 41. Webster star Emmanuel 43. Peeples of Walker, Texas Ranger 45. Kazakhstan’s lake 47. Word in TW3 48. Sort 49. Samoan coin 50. “_____ American Tail” 51. Brave _____ 53. Helen of United States 55. The ______ Comedy Hour
Mentors Matter
Billions of dollars in scholarships are available every year to women, and one web site, ScholarshipsOnline.org, is helping women apply for these financial aid opportunities. The web site has recently published the top 25 scholarships available for women and girls in 2013-2014. Scholarships are monetary gifts awarded to students who demonstrate outstanding academic or athletic ability. Because of increasing expenses for tuition, boarding and books, more and more organizations and corporations are giving away scholarships as a part of their public or community affairs programs. Federal government agencies, local government agencies, and educational institutions themselves are
The scholarships are available to all women, regardless of age, ethnicity, and financial need. also giving away millions of dollars in scholarships every year. In total, it is estimated that more than $5 billion in scholarships will be given away this year, and perhaps even more next year. To view the Top 25
Scholarships Available For Women in 2013-2014, visit: www.scholarshipsonline.org/p/top-womenscholarships-grants.html To search hundreds of other 2013-2014 scholarships, visit: www.ScholarshipsOnline.org
first-generation college goers,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said. “Participation in Advanced Placement courses gives these students a jump start in college by challenging them to develop stronger study and critical-thinking skills. These grants will eliminate some financial roadblocks and enable more minority students to gain access to rigorous AP courses, which will help them succeed in today’s knowledge economy.” By subsidizing test fees for low-income students, the program is intended to encourage those students to take AP tests and obtain college credit for high school courses, reducing the time and cost required to complete a postsecondary degree.
The grants can be used to help pay for low-income students taking approved AP tests administered by the College Board, the International Baccalaureate Organization and Cambridge International Examinations. Levels of funding per state were determined on the basis of state estimates of the numbers of tests that would be taken by low-income students. Following is a list of the grant recipients. The Advanced Placement Test Fee grants program is administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. For additional information on the program and these new awards, visit http:// www2.ed.gov/programs/ apfee/index.html.
Grants Awarded to Cover Fees Charged to Low-Income Students for Taking AP Tests
56. In the Heat of the Night deputy 57. Coffee selection for Niles Crane Down 1. Sesame _______ 2. Shannen Doherty series 3. Cartoon scream 4. Ship’s heading 5. He played Lou Grant (init.) 6. Kirk portrayer 7. Greek letter 8. Indian city 9. What the Church Lady has 10. Chief Black _____ of Dr. Quinn 11. Hebrew month 13. In the Park host Bill 15. Will of The Waltons 18. Trapper John, ______ 21. Coach actress Georgia 22. Cabot Cove Sights 25. Time period
27. Kanga’s kid 30. Martha _____ Living 32. Entertainment _______ 33. Roseanne and Dan had many of these 34. Jessica Parker and Michele Gellar 36. Makeover show: The ________ 38. Sam’s girl on Mayberry R.F.D. 40. Susan Dey TV series (2 words) 42. “____ My Face Red?” 44. African tree 46. Bathe 51. Cause for Maude (abbr.) 52. Play a part 54. Bell of Married... with Children 55. Franken of SNL Answers on page 12A
The U.S. Department of Education today announced the award of more than $28.8 million in grants to 42 states to cover a portion of the fees charged to low-income students for taking advanced placement (AP) tests. Based on the anticipated number of test-takers and other factors, the grants under the Advanced Placement Test Fee Program are expected to be sufficient to pay all but $10 of the cost of each advanced placement exam taken by lowincome students. States may opt to require students to pay a portion of the costs. “This Administration has taken unprecedented steps to boost college- and career readiness for our young people, especially