Middle East studies in the News

Centre County Schools: Students To See Changes

by Ed Mahon
The Centre Daily Times
August 30, 2009

http://www.centredaily.com/116/story/1477991.html?storylink=omni_popular

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8191

A $26 million construction project. A test that must be passed in order to graduate. New ways of solving math problems. Classes focusing on Arabic and science fiction. An 8-foot-wide, 40-foot-long rock climbing wall.

Students will be greeted by many new things in Centre County schools this year — including a new superintendent. Consider this a CliffsNotes version to the changes — or maybe "small pieces" of the big picture.

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State College

High school students will observe hip replacements, chemotherapy treatments and other procedures at Mount Nittany Medical Center as part of a new Career and Technical Center course. The center's also partnering with Penn State's Smeal College of Business for a supply chain management course. And the high school will offer Arabic as a foreign language in two sections.

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