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08.11.2009 1:44 pm

Wentzville School Districts gets nearly $500,000 in federal grant money for physical education

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Physical education in the Wentzville School District will get a boost with nearly half a million dollars in federal grant money.

Wentzville is the only school district in Missouri to receive this grant, which can be used towards equipment, staff and teacher training, according to…

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08.07.2009 4:00 am

MasterCard giving $300,000 to local education programs and schools

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It’s always nice to hear about large cooperations giving money to help kids, and yesterday MasterCard Worldwide announced it is giving more than $300,000 to education programs and schools.  It’s part of MasterCard Project Math, a $1 million giving initiative…
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08.06.2009 10:45 am

Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education applauds Wentzville teacher

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray

A Wentzville educator is the Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education teacher of the year.

Charlotte Gray, a family and consumer sciences teacher at Holt High School, continually encourages students to build on their strengths and be willing to learn from their mistakes,…

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02.05.2009 2:26 pm

Wentzville superintendent seeks top job at Columbia schools, newspaper says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Columbia Daily Tribune is reporting that Wentzville Superintendent Terry Adams was in the running to head up schools there. You can read the story here, however, it’s not clear whether Adams is a finalist for the superintendent position.

Adams did…

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12.11.2008 1:00 pm

Latest international math tests show Singapore students still ahead

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here’s an Education Week story about the latest international study that compare U.S. students with their counterparts across the globe. American kids are making gains in math, but students in Asian countries such as Singapore still are far ahead.

The success of Singapore…

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12.04.2008 10:35 am

Singapore math in Wentzville schools: What do you think?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Remember when your elementary math homework involved 60-some odd problems, including those two horrid story problems at the end?

Well, math class has changed this year in some Wentzville elementary schools, and it no longer involves the repetition of gads and…

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