Four Georgia high-school students have joined the U.S. Army's All-American team. In a pep rally at each school, the U.S. Army presented All-American Bowl jackets and jerseys this week to four high-school students: Benny Ben-David from Milton in Fulton County and Christina Landress from Buford in Buford City School District for the 2014 U.S. Army All-American Marching Band and Dante Sawyer from North Gwinnett in Gwinnett County and Nick Glass from Peachtree Ridge in Gwinnett County for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl. The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is a nationally-recognized high-school football game that occurs every January in San Antonio's Alamodome and is broadcast live on NBC. The U.S. Army All-American Marching Band is a 125-person marching band that performs at halftime.
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Target Corp. and The Heart of America Foundation has selected Atlanta Public Schools’ C.L. Gideons Elementary for a $200,000 library renovation as part of their School Library Makeover program. The new library will include 2,000 new books, furniture, carpet, shelves and a technology upgrade with new iPads. After the celebration last Tuesday, each student received seven books to take home. Along with Gideons Elementary, 24 schools will receive a library makeover. With programs like this one, Target plans to give $1 billion to education by the end of next year.
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KayLynn Samples, a 2013 graduate of Chestatee High School in Hall County has been recognized as the GeorgiaBEST Student of the Year by the State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler and the Georgia State Employer Committee at an annual Savannah conference. Samples, now a freshman at Brenau University studying mass communications, received a $1,000 scholarship based on her resume, letter of recommendation and awards. The competition also emphasizes "soft skills," such as the attitude and communication skills that Samples listed as some of the most important soft skills she possesses. Out of more than 8,000 students, 5,065 received certification. Every school nominated one state finalist.
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Holy Innocents' Episcopal School has named Paul A. Barton, head of school at The Avery Coonley School near Chicago, as the next head of school, effective July 1.
Barton recently received a Klingenstein Fellowship from the Teachers College-Columbia University, and completed his executive education from the Center for Nonprofit Management at the Kellogg School of Business-Northwestern University. He has served as an instructor at Concordia University, and principal of the Harold G. Fearn Elementary School and Annunciation Catholic School, both in Illinois. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Great Books Foundation, and has led Independent Schools of the Central States accreditation teams.
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