Education briefs
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Advisor to discuss financing college
The Kahuku Public and School Library will hold a free program at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 17 on ways to finance a child's college education. The event will be at 56-490 Kamehameha Highway on the Kahuku High campus.
American Express financial advisor Chad Adams will discuss financial strategies, the real cost of college, planning, education IRAs, scholarships and 529 plans. Questions will be taken at the end.
The event is open to parents and anyone planning to attend college.
For more information, or to request a sign-language interpreter, call the library at 293-8935.
Board of Education swears in members
Eight recently elected members of the state Board of Education were sworn into office last week by Hawai'i Supreme Court Justice Ronald Moon.
They are Shannon Ajifu, Karen Knudsen, Garrett Toguchi and Randall Yee, O'ahu at large; Mary Cochran, Maui; Breene Harimoto, Leeward O'ahu; Shirley Robinson, Central O'ahu; and Laura H. Thielen, Windward O'ahu.
The board has 13 voting members. A 14th student member does not have voting rights.
The new board's first meeting is at 7 p.m. tonight on Moloka'i.
McKinley High teacher honored
McKinley High School teacher Karen Morneau has won $2,000 as part of a 2002 Education's Unsung Heroes Award program.
Morneau was recognized for her project, "A Literacy Plan," which introduces students to local literature, promotes reading and inspires them to write in their own voice. Local authors are invited to read from their own works, while local celebrities are invited to share their favorite books and describe how reading helped them succeed.
The awards are sponsored by ING, a financial services organization.
Speaker to look at teacher education
The Stanford University professor who headed the 1996 panel that catalyzed major policy changes to improve teacher education nationwide will talk about "Ensuring Access to Highly Qualified Teachers: Meeting the Challenge," from 7 to 8:30 tonight at the University of Hawai'i's School of Architecture auditorium.
Linda Darling-Hammond is the featured speaker at the College of Education's Fifth Annual Alice and Carl Daeufer Lecture series. She teaches education policy and oversees teacher education at Stanford.
Sacred Hearts teacher selected
Jennifer Kemp-Smith, an English teacher at Sacred Hearts Academy, is one of 30 U.S. teachers selected for the National Bearing Witness Summer Institute in July in Washington, D.C.
Chosen teachers learn the history of anti-Semitism and classroom strategies for teaching the Holocaust. The program is sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The program is July 29 through Aug. 2.
