Feature Story: At-Risk School Earns Exemplary Status in Texas

Texas School with High At-risk Population Finds Success
with Brainchild Achiever!

DALLAS— July 22, 2010 — Forty-five percent of the students at Barbara Jordan Elementary School in Ector County ISD are considered at-risk. Teachers have to contend with more than 25 percent turn-over each year and yet, Barbara Jordan Elementary School is one of the best schools in Texas.

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Case Study

ECO:LOGIC Develops iPad Application for Wastewater Treatment Plants

ROCKLIN, Calif. — July 15, 2010 – Wastewater treatment plants and sewage systems cost millions of dollars to design and build so maintenance is important not only for preserving public and environmental health but also for sound fiscal stewardship of expensive and critical public resources. ECO:LOGIC Engineering (www.ecologic-eng.com) an engineering firm located in Northern California—has developed an Interactive Operations Manual (IOM) for the iPad™ mobile digital device that helps keep plants online and operating efficiently. (VIDEO link)

“This is just what we needed. If we discover that a piece of equipment needs an oil change every two months instead of four, we can log that here and turn it into a work order.”--

Steve Schimp, district manager and plant operator at San Andreas Sanitary District where the first IOM is in use.

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Auburn Journal: FOG and e-Waste Pickup Started

Pick-up program to keep food waste out of sewer
Auburn Journal, July 11, 2010

The city of Auburn adopted a new program that will allow residents to get rid of their pipe-clogging fats, oil and grease through a curbside pick-up program...

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It's All Water: Water Banking in Nevada

From the Nevada Water Environment Association's newsletter Silver State Water Environment News, July 2010:

IT’S ALL WATER: DEMONSTRATION OF AN INNOVATIVE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR WATER BANKING IN NEVADA
Vijay Sundaram, P.E. and John P. Enloe, P.E., ECO:LOGIC Engineering

...In Nevada and other states, an under-utilized water resource is municipal effluent. Adequately treated municipal effluent, or reclaimed water, is a reliable, high quality, drought-proof water resource. A critical question is how this resource could be saved (i.e. “banked”) for future use...

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Schoot Town wins Distinguished Achievement Award

School Town (www.Schooltown.net) won a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers. This is a significant award in our industry. Category: Tech Innovations-Social Media for grades 9-12. See the list of winners here. More about the Awards (http://www.aepweb.org/awards/index.htm)

Brainchild Achiever! Selected as a Top Assessment Product for Helping Students Learn Essential Skills

June 02, 2010 10:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time via BusinessWire

DALLAS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) selected Achiever! from Brainchild (www.Brainchild.com) as a finalist in the Distinguished Achievement Awards for K-5 assessment and instructional products. Achiever! assesses standards-based performance in school and then delivers targeted learning tutorials that help students improve their performance on state assessments. (Read more)

Tale of Two Students (from the Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal had this great article on Saturday, May 30, 2010.

...This fall, Ivan will enter the University of Oklahoma, armed with a prestigious scholarship. "I want to be the first Hispanic governor of Oklahoma," declares the clean-cut 18-year-old, standing on the steps of Santa Fe South High School, the charter school in the heart of this city's Hispanic enclave that he says put him on a new path.

Laura, who is 17, rose to senior class president at Capitol Hill High School, a large public school in the same neighborhood. But after scraping together enough credits to graduate, Laura isn't sure where she's headed. She never took college entrance exams. ...more...

Link to the full article: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704717004575268752238805736-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html (Valid for 7 days for non-subscribers)