The James Logan Courier

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Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team for taking 2nd at the NCS Team Dual Championships. Also, congratulations to the girls for bringing home the first pennant as they took 2nd at NCS. Congratulations!!

Emanuele Elementary needs tutors to help with 5th grade Math and English on Wednesday afternoons. If you are interested, check out the community service posting on Logan’s website under the College/Career Center link, or pick up a pink flier in the Career Center.

Each year, the Asian Pacific Fund offers $27,000 in prizes for their “Growing up Asian in America” contest. To submit your art, essays or poems, pick up the guidelines from Mrs. B in Room 507.

By Kayleen Garingan, Courier Staff Writer

Last month, film maker Sara Strahan and curriculum developer Diane Moroff came to James Logan High School with a film crew to interview and film Logan Social Science Teacher Kim Petitt’s first period World Literature class to promote a new way of grading students. In order to promote the “newer” grading system they took over the class and asked Petitt to lead a discussion about the effects of the new grading scale, which emphasizes what students know rather than how they got to know it, and and how it changed the minds of the students and their work.

By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States on Monday for a high-profile visit where he'll be honored as if he were the president of China — the post he's expected to take next year.

Xi Jinping, 58, is to assume leadership of the Communist Party later this year, a final rung before ascending to the top of the political ladder in March 2013. And with China now firmly positioned as the world's second-largest economy and closing fast, the relationship between the United States and China has become more important than ever in the past decade.

As such, the eyes of two countries will be on Xi this week as he tries to pass leadership tests on each side of the Pacific.

From wikipedia:
Malvin (Mal) Russell Goode (February 13, 1908 – September 12, 1995) was an African-American television journalist and news correspondent.
Education and early work

Goode was born in White Plains, Virginia, educated in the public school system of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1931. Starting in high school, he was employed for twelve years as a laborer in steel mills, until five years after his graduation. Appointed to a position in the Juvenile Court as a boys work director at the Centre Avenue YMCA, he spearheaded the fight against discrimination in the Pittsburgh branches of the YMCA. Goode worked with the Pittsburgh Housing Authority for six years and joined the Pittsburgh Courier in 1948, where he remained for 14 years.

Read an interview with Mal Goode, free from the Teaneck Public Library.