The James Logan Courier

By Marc Freeman
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)

Palm Beach County, Fla., high school students are taking college-level classes in record numbers, meaning more money for campuses despite a drop in the percentage of exams passed.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, Nov. 30:

America's higher education superiority — once taken for granted worldwide — is in danger of slipping away.

Two bipartisan reports, one this week from the National Conference of State Legislatures and another in September from a commission appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, lament growing gaps in colleges' accessibility, affordability and accountability. They see a crisis brewing, especially for poor and minority students.

By Holly K. Hacker
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

DALLAS — It's been praised for keeping public universities in Texas racially diverse. It's been criticized for hurting talented students with less-than-stellar grades.

Now almost 10 years old, the "top 10 percent law" on college admissions still kindles emotion and debate. After all, where a student attends college can have lifelong consequences.

ACTIVITIES:
Donations for MEchA’s Christmas food drive are welcomed in rooms 413 and 422 until 12/15 or at Centro de Servicios from 8 am to 12 pm last day friday. Feliz Navidad!

Come out to Colt Court today and tomorrow at lunch to receive a FREE candy cane compliments of Youth Alive.

Interested in Track & Field? Come to the weight room on Mon., Wed, and Fri., to sign up.

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor

He Sees You When You’re Sleeping by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Pocket (October 29, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN: 0743456866

“Rows of pews were filled with people who were waiting to be called before the Heavenly Council. People who had to answer for certain things they’d done-or not done-in life, before they received admission to heaven.”

Sterling Brooks just happens to be one of the people waiting to answer for things he had not done before he could get into heaven. Despite the creepy sounding title, this is a Christmas novel filled with enough sugary sweet goodness to give you a cavity. And to some it may seem like it is a cavity before the ending, annoying and painful.


The name "Sterling" is used 311 times in He Sees You When You're Sleeping(source:Amazon.com)

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Editor's Note: Each week The Courier spotlights new arrivals, or materials soon to arrive, in the Media Center's collection.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 0060931388


From LoungUng.com:
From a childhood survivor of Cambodia’s Pol Pot regime comes a riveting narrative of war, desperate actions, and the unnerving strength of a child and her family.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Dec. 2, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2006 by Reed Elsevier, USA)

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Next. Michael Crichton. HarperCollins, $27.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. For One More Day. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $21.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 10
3. Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
4. Dear John. Nicholas Sparks. Warner, $24.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 5
5. Brother Odd. Dean Koontz. Bantam, $27
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1

Moses ben Maimon, more commonly known as Maimonides, was a Spanish-born Jewish rabbi and philosopher, one of the greatest Hebrew scholars.

He is thought to have been born on March 30, 1138 and died on December 13, 1204.

Read more about Maimonides from the Jewish Encyclopedia.


Moses ben Maimon