K-12 NEWS

K-12 NEWS
Educational workshops
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Youngstown Area Alliance of Black School Educators invites educators, parents and community members to the Oct. 10 "Continuing the Legacy" professional development and parent information workshops, running 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Hayes Middle School, 1616 Ford Ave.
Topics include the No Child Left Behind Act, math, literacy, teacher certification and assessment, new state standards and the home-school connection. Registration deadline is Friday. Call (330) 744-7602.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
'Instant Piano' class
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State University offers "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People," a class demonstrating how guitar chord symbols can be applied to piano, and how to play various pop songs in different keys and embellish the songs. The class, open to the public, runs from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 1. Call (330) 965-5800 to register.
Language classes offered
Classes in beginning French, German, Italian and Spanish, as well as advanced German, will be offered to those 12 and older in the following locations beginning the week of Sept. 29: Mondays at Poland Union Elementary School; Thursdays at Austintown Fitch High School; Tuesdays and Saturdays at Grace Lutheran Church in Hubbard and Saturdays at Maennerchor in Youngstown. Call (330) 758-0361 for fees.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Horatio Alger awards
WASHINGTON -- High school students who have faced and overcome difficulties may be eligible the Horatio Alger National Scholarship, which will be awarded to 100 students throughout the United States. Students selected will receive $10,000 each for college.
Past recipients have overcome physical and mental abuse, serious illness, alcohol and drug abuse, abandonment and other adversities. Additional criteria include financial need, community and public service and academic achievement. Deadline is Oct. 15. Visit www.horatioalger.org/scholarships.
COLLEGE HAPPENINGS
Grove City accolades
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- Grove City College was ranked first in a demographics category in The Princeton Review's annual college guidebook, "The Best 351 Colleges," which includes a survey of 106,000 students. The college was included in 12 of the publication's 63 lists, ranking No. 10 in extracurriculars. Other accolades given to Grove City include a No. 1 ranking for best value by U.S. News & amp; World Report and being rated No. 5 overall in the 2004 guide to America's Best Colleges.
SRU program gets kudos
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- In the September issue of Outside magazine of Santa Fe, N.M., Slippery Rock University's Park Ranger program ranked as No. 1 in the nation. The university also was ranked in the top 100 schools for overall consideration. SRU also was ranked by The Princeton Review as one of the 98 best universities in the mid-Atlantic region that includes Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Mount Union ranked 17th
ALLIANCE -- Editors of U.S. News and World Report ranked Mount Union College 17th of 234 comprehensive colleges in the Midwest. Schools were ranked based on academic reputation, student selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources, retention rate and alumni giving.
EDUCATOR NEWS
Inducted into 'Who's Who'
YOUNGSTOWN -- Joan Grunenwald, an elementary school teacher from the Youngstown Christian Academy, has been selected for induction into the "Who's Who Among Assemblies of God Educators" for 2002-2003. Criteria are a demonstrated ability to influence others in spiritual growth and personal development.
The Ohio chapter of the Association of Christian Teachers and Schools chose Grunenwald, a 10-year YCS teacher, because of her dedication to her school and pupils, said the Rev. Gary Johnston, Ohio ACTS president and YCS superintendent.
Head of national group
ALLIANCE -- Dr. Jack Ewing, president of Mount Union College, was named president of the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United Methodist Church, an organization of 110 institutions.
Ewing, a native of Bridgeton, N.J., has been a member of the group's board of directors for six years and served as its Church Relations Committee chair for five years. He has been Mount Union's president since summer 2000 and was president of Dakota Wesleyan University from 1994 to 2000. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1982, a master's degree from the University of Kentucky in 1975, and a bachelor's degree from Asbury College in 1974. He is active in United Way, Alliance Area and Stark County development groups, the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges and the Canton Symphony Orchestra Band.