The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS
Get in shape! Join Cross-Country.
BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!

See Coach Webb on the track after school.

CLUBS
Are you interested in learning Mexican/Latino Folklorico Dance? Please come to the
orientation meeting Wednesday, September 7th. We will be meeting in the Pavilion
Dance Studio at 3:45 p.m. Everyone is welcome! For more information, see Mr. Huertas
in House 1.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Community Relations Director

Another New Haven Unified School District elementary school has joined the “800 Club” of schools meeting or exceeding the state’s goal for student achievement.

Emanuele Elementary raised its Academic Performance Index by 19 points – from 781 in 2009-10 to 800 in 2010-11 – meeting the state’s target score and continuing a steady ascent over the past several years. As recently as 2007-08, Emanuele’s API was 738.

Courier Staff Report

The first day of the 2011-2012 school year went smoothly for most of the 4053 students currently enrolled at James Logan High School.

Rhonda Neagle, vice principal of operations, attributed much of the smooth opening to successful orientation meetings held with students during the summer. Attendance at the orientations was up over previous years, partly due to the district's relaxation of the requirement that students have their emergency contact forms in order to attend orientation. That requirement reduced attendance at previous orientations, Neagle said.

A casual sampling of student opinion conducted by Courier staffers during fourth lunch indicated that most students were happy to be back in school.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

After reading "Bedbugs" you might want to fumigate any apartment you rent. You also might want to call in an exorcist.

Ben H. Winters, who authored the mash-ups "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" and "Android Karenina," takes on a modern re-working of the classic horror novel "Rosemary's Baby" and adds other gruesome touches.
Alex and Susan Wendt, with their young daughter Emily, rent a Brooklyn brownstone from its kindly landlady, Andrea Scharfstein. The apartment comes with an extra attraction — a secret room — that Susan falls in love with, intending on making it her painting room. A part-time nanny takes care of Emily, freeing up Susan to work on her canvases.

From wikipedia:
Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 – March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."

Levitt grew up in Brooklyn. Dropping out of high school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children's street culture of the time. She purchased a Leica camera and began to photograph these works, as well as the children who made them. The resulting photographs were ultimately published in 1987 as In The Street: chalk drawings and messages, New York City 1938–1948.

See examples of Helen Levitt's work, free from lensculture.com.