The James Logan Courier

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Building on the Strategic Plan that was crafted by the community to reflect its vision for the New Haven Unified School District, the Board of Education on Tuesday night adopted a Comprehensive Strategic Planning Framework to help meet the District Goal of having all students performing at grade level in core academic subjects.

The framework is made up of Seven Essentials for Continuous Growth and Improvement, each defined by five to nine Leading Indicators, said Superintendent of School Kari McVeigh, who was tasked by the Board with developing a theory of action to improve student performance. The Seven Essentials are designed to assure that the District:

• Provides District-Wide Instructional Foci
• Uses Data to Inform Instructional and Professional Development Decisions
• Implements a Targeted Professional Development Plan to Grow and Strengthen Instruction
• Learns and Uses Research-Based Best Instructional Practices
• Creates and Maintains Effective and Safe Learning Environments
• Aligns Resources (Human, Time, Money) Toward Instructional Focus and Student Learning
• Involves Parents and Community in Student Learning, Assessments and Learning Supports

By Alejandro Samaniego, Courier Staff Writer

James Logan's boys volleyball team beat Washington High School in the first round of MVAL playoffs Tuesday.

With James Logan High seeded second in the playoffs, they took on the third seeded Washington High at Mission San Jose High School in the first round of MVAL playoffs. The boys started off with the first two games close, but they pulled together and raised the intensity of their play to crush Washington in the final two games (25-23, 20-25, 25-10, 25-18). The statistic's of the teams leaders were Aniq Masood with 16 kills, Lutful Asifi with 12 kills and 11 digs, Henry Lam with 14 digs and 2 aces, and finally Minh Ngo with 43 assists.

By Melanie Blanco, Courier Staff Writer

Many of you have heard of the author, Nicholas Sparks, who wrote The Notebook, which was made into a major motion picture last year. Sparks has written several other books, too, including The Rescue, which I read recently.

The Rescue, the first of Sparks' books to reach number one on the New York Times bestseller list, is about a man named Taylor McAden, a volunteer fireman who dreams of saving as many lives as possible. To do so, Taylor takes extreme and terrifying chances while carrying out his fireman's duties.

While he's eager to face the dangers of firefighting, he's reluctant to face the dangers inherent in falling in love. In heroic firefighter mode, he rescues several women, and sometimes romance with the rescued seems ready to catch fire, but he quickly snuffs out such relationships before the nascent loves become inflamed.

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Editor-in-Chief

“Women had come so far, I learned, we no longer needed to worry about objectification or misogyny. Instead, it was time for us to join the frat party of pop culture, where men had been enjoying themselves all along. If Male Chauvinist Pigs were men who regarded women as pieces of meat, we would outdo them and be Female Chauvinist Pigs: women who make sex objects of other women and of ourselves.”

Female Chauvinist Pigs is one of the most interesting books I have read for years. As the title implies, it explores the new breed of chauvinist pigs: females. I do not say women because female chauvinist pigs (FCPs) can be found at any age, something one cannot help but notice when walking around Logan’s campus or flipping through a teen magazine. I definitely recommend this book in the hopes that some FCPs read it and realize just how ridiculous they and their confused excuses are.

From wikipedia:
Motilal Nehru (May 6, 1861 – February 6, 1931) was an early Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress. He was the founder patriarch of India's most powerful political family, the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Motilal Nehru was born in Garden Grove, to Ganga Dhar in a Kashmiri Pandit family. He became one of the first generation of young Indians to receive a 'Western-style' college education. He attended Muir Centeal College at Allahabad, but failed to appear for the final year B.A examinations. Later he qualified "Bar at law" from Cambridge and then enlisted as a lawyer in the English courts.

Read more about Motilal Nehru, free from congresssandesh.com