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    District receives grant to boost teachers' knowledge of hist

    District receives grant to boost teachers' knowledge of history

    By Jeff Ristine
    UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

    April 10, 2008

    BORREGO SPRINGS – The Borrego Springs Unified School District has been awarded its third big federal grant to improve teachers' knowledge of U.S. history, a program the isolated desert district is delivering partly via the Internet.


    Advertisement Schools in small rural districts in California and Arizona are the focus of the new program and the three-year, $967,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. It is aimed at bolstering the quality of K-12 instruction in areas where teachers may not have specialized knowledge of history or access to materials to enhance their lesson plans.
    The Borrego Springs district received its first such grant in 2004. While the district has a leading role in administering distance-learning efforts reaching as far as the Virgin Islands, its instructors also take advantage of the program, listening, for example, to a PowerPoint-assisted lecture delivered from Connecticut on how colonial children lived.

    “It's a wonderful opportunity that the federal government provided to us to really beef up our history teaching to our students,â€
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    These points in history are NOT current events, wouldn't you think they learned about this in COLLEGE?!!?!?! What a waste of money!
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