EDUCATION IN BRIEF
By Boston Globe Staff and Wires, 4/27/2003
Bay State teachers win national award
Two Massachusetts teachers will be honored at the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards this week. Mary Cowhey, a teacher at Jackson Street School in Northampton, and Michael Stanton, a teacher at Ralph Talbot Primary School in South Weymouth, will each receive $25,000 from the foundation. Cowhey and Stanton are among 100 educators nationwide who will be recognized for their achievements at a ceremony in Los Angeles tomorrow.
Local students give money to Indians
Students from Boston-area high schools have raised more than $3,500 to donate to the Yanomami, an indigenous tribe in the Amazon on the Brazil-Venezuela border. One of the world's last hunter-gatherer tribes, the Yanomami lived in near-total isolation for about 2,000 years until the late 1970s, when Brazil's military government conducted surveys in the area. An estimated 26,000 still live in the jungles. Students first heard of the tribe in November when they met with three Yanomami teachers who were visiting the United States. Students from five high schools raised money by selling products made by a Guatamalan weaving cooperative, holding bake sales, and selling coffees and teas at school functions, according to Lisa Matthews, who works with the Cultural Survival Education Program. The money will help literacy among the tribe.
Chelmsford senior wins scholarship
Chelmsford High School senior Anne S. Yu, 18, was awarded a $16,000 scholarship from the Siemens Foundation last week. She was among 16 students nationwide selected for the annual Siemens National Merit Scholarship. Winners were selected based on academic records, test scores, school recommendations, and contributions to their community. Yu is editor-in-chief of her school yearbook and has worked on the student newspaper for three years. In addition to her school activities, Yu has volunteered at Emerson Hospital in Concord and spent two summers volunteering at the Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston. She has been accepted to MIT, Duke University, and Dartmouth College.
This story ran on page H2 of the Boston Globe on 4/27/2003. © Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.