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Marshall: Cash incentives motivate challenged students
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Pictured(L-R) Staley’s Fast Track team, Marilyn Williams, lead teacher, Daphne Hamilton, Fannie Mann, Sue Statham, Antonio Willis and principal Victoria Harris with Fast Track students who received cash for passing parts of the CRCT and the “Reading a Million Words” requirement. |
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Sometimes, you have to reach students by whatever costs. At Staley Middle School, the cost was $3,600. Dr. John D. Marshall, a prominent local physician, promised the 23 students of the Fast Track learning program at Staley that he would pay each student up to $250 to pass all 5 sections of the Criterion- Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), which includes math, reading, language arts, science and social studies mandated by the state and local school board and $250 for successfully completing the "Reading a Million Words" requirement. This would give each student the opportunity to earn $500. |
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Conference to focus on healthy living for men
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The 100 Black Men of Albany, Inc., is co-sponsoring a conference to help fathers and men stay healthy. The free Seventh Annual Father's Day Weekend Men's Health Conference, to be held June 14 at Phoebe Health works Building on 311 Third Avenue in Albany, will provide a number of health screenings. Dr. Christopher P. Steidle, author of "Sex and the Heart," and a board certified urologist, will be among several speakers at the conference. Steidle is a founder and principal investigator of a nationally recognized facility involved with cutting edge sexual dysfunction research. |
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Phoebe Men’s Health Screening, scheduled for June 14, 2008 |
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A Father’s Day gift: Two Howard graduates |
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A doctor, dentist or lawyer coming from the same home is a dream of many parents. That is what happened in the Dr. Cleveland and Fannie Mann household. Both of their sons are on the road to becoming professionals Howard University, Brian Patrick Mann, 25, will join his father at his 905 N. Jackson Street and South Slappey Blvd. in Albany practices this fall. |
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Dr. Brian Mann, Dr. Cleveland Mann and Justin Mann pictured as both sons graduated for Howard University. Brian finishes dental school while Justin enters Howard Law School. |