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Next on New Hampshire Outlook tonight. Schools to career - a New Hampshire program bridging the gap between theory and practice for thousands of school children and we visit Wolfpack VIllage, a classroom run by and for second graders. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. We begin tonight with a summary of state news. |
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New Hampshire ranks fifth in the nation for the percentage of the voting-age population that cast ballots in this past election. That's according to a poll conducted by Newsweek magazine. Three New England states placed in the top five but with a 68-point-seven percent turnout, Minnesota was first. Maine was second followed by Wisconsin, Vermont and New Hampshire with 62-point-two percent of voters casting their ballots. It was the second presidential election in which New Hampshire voters were allowed to register on Election Day. Arizona and California were last with less than 40-percent turnout. |
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A new study shows the number of brain injuries in New Hampshire is more than double the national average. The survey by University of New Hampshire professor Linda Robinson shows eleven percent of state residents have suffered some kind of brain injury, while the national average is five percent. The research shows brain injuries are the leading cause of death of people younger than 24. A group of graduate students at the university is pushing to get more people to wear helmets when riding motorcycles, scooters, or bicycles or while skiing or participating in other activities. |
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Last week we told you about the increasing cost of rental housing across the state. Landlords were increasing rents do to market demand. But now, increased heating oil costs and expected property tax hikes could put rental prices up even higher. Real estate officials say the results are making affordable housing in the region even more scarce. Kipp Cooper of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors in Concord says landlords certainly will pass on the higher costs to renters. According to the New Hampshire Housing Forum, an increase in population and a lack of new multifamily housing statewide have contributed to a low vacancy rate and to increased rents. |
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Where have all the birds gone? Bird watchers in northern New England say backyard feeders are getting little business. In East Kingston, a member of the nationwide Project Feeder Watch, says he has been observing birds for 30 years, and it's never been this bad. Usually, bird feeders at this time of year are being visited by a wide array of birds but to date, only a few have been seen. Some experts suggest abundant wild food and mild weather are keeping the birds in the woods longer than usual. The Maine Audubon Society reports that its bird population data is normal. |
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That's the news summary. We'll be back with a look at a schools to careers program and more after the weather. |
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TONIGHT CLOUDY WITH RAIN/ SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY LOWS UPPER 20s TO MID 30s TOMORROW CLOUDY NORTH PARTLY SUNNY SOUTH HIGHS 35 TO 45 WEDNESDAY MOSTLY CLOUDY CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS NORTH HIGHS 30s TO LOWER 40s |
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For young people getting ready to enter the work force, there are few things as challenging as figuring out what kind of work they want to do. Well, thanks to a new program in Manchester, high school students can now try out different careers even before they graduate. It's called the school to careers partnership, and as producer Richard Ager reports, even teachers are getting in on the act. |
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School/Careers tape 2 56;40 "The map does outline the slave states… Track: 16-year old Sean Madden is a student at Manchester's West High School. His courses include such standbys as American History, Math, and English. Like most of us, he'd like his hobbies to be his job. Bite: School/Careers tape 2 58;52 I've been playing video games for a long time - what would be better than making them. Track: And thanks to a new education initiative in Manchester, Sean may do just that - and a lot more. Twice a week, he spends half his school day as an intern at Motek, a computer animation firm in Manchester. Bite: School/Careers tape 2 59;05 Right now, I've been doing the computer graphics kind of thing. Somebody dresses up in a suit with sensors on it and the cameras only capture those sensors. Soundup: School/Careers tape 2 10:18 "Okay - recording" computer in foreground - Sean kicks Bite: School/Careers tape 2 59:15 Then they go back to the computer and connect those sensors with other sensors and you can see a stick figure - and then somebody does graphics over that. Track: Motek specializes in capturing the mechanics of motion for a variety of applications, including animation, games and physical rehabilitation for balance disorders. For Sean, it has literally been a hands-on experience that is helping him decide his future. Bite: :School/Careers tape 3 18:00 You get out into a real job - but you don't have to worry about getting fired from it or making too many mistakes. And then if you don't like it, you only take it for half a year and you don't have to worry about it after that if you don't. And if you do, it's something you can look into after school. WHAT DO YOU THINK SO FAR? Yeah, I like it. It's good. Track: For the companies who offer the internships, it's a chance to meet potential employees. Bite: School/Careers tape 3 20:17 For our employers, this is a long-term way of developing a work force. We want to keep our students in NH and we want them to be able to contribute to our growing economy. And as a result of that, employers are participating because they see this as a positive way for them to extend the classroom out into the world of business. Soundup: School/Careers tape 1 9:41 "Pass those up to the front" Track: And it's not just students who are exploring the world of work. Joanne Chabot teaches grade 6 math at Southside Middle School in Manchester. Last summer, she traded fractions and decimals for work boots and a hard hat during an externship at Hooksett Sand and Gravel. Soundup: School/Careers tape 1 34:19 Joanne grabs shovel School/Careers tape 1 36:38 Joanne dumps gravel into copper sifter Track: For two weeks, Joanne worked all over the quarry, absorbing how the business is run. Bite: School/Careers tape 2 51:14 In quality control. I might spend three hours doing something, and we didn't stop because a bell rang or because someone said to stop and eat lunch and whatever. We worked until the test we were working on was completed. Soundup: School/Careers tape 2 42:45 Hot Asphalt poured into dump truck Track: Among other things, Joanne learned that constant testing of asphalt mixtures is needed to make sure the roads we build don't crumble. She absorbed practical lessons in the value of teamwork, flexibility and a strong work ethic. And being a teacher, she also taught. Bite: School/Careers tape 1 22:25 It's easy to become separated from the students and the people who are coming in at an entry level, for one thing. Joanne gave us an awful lot of good feedback on her experiences as a teacher and the kind of challenges she has in producing or helping to produce good healthy well-rounded people who come into the workplace. She gave us an awful lot of insight on her experiences as a teacher, and as members of the community, she helped us understand what her challenges are, what the challenges of these young people are as they come into the workplace and as they just try to get through their lives. Bite: School/Careers tape 2 52:39 SO, OVERALL, HOW WOULD YOU RATE THIS EXPERIENCE? 52:44 As a teacher, I'd rate it an A plus. It was great, it was a great experience. The people were wonderful, it was a whole.it was very eye-opening for me, because I've been teaching for over twenty years. I've never done anything else. So this, to me, was.and it also showed me that there's other ways to make a living than teaching school that I might like to try, but at my advanced age I don't know if I will. 53:07 Track: So what did she bring back from the quarry to the classroom? Bite: School/Careers tape 1 14:30 I've learned to be a lot more patient with my students and to certainly listen more carefully to my team mates opinions because we all do need to work as a team for the benefit of the kids. I think too that the concept of team work was a lot easier to teach to the children this year because I showed them what I did in a slide show and I explained to them that in life, everyone works together and everyone depends on everyone else in a household and classroom and business - so yes, I think it did make a big difference. |
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Joining me now are Nury Marquez, director of the Manchester School to Careers Partnership, and Abby Starin, a junior at Manchester West High. Abigail, I understand you're interested in what it's like to be a veterinarian, and School to Careers has you working at an animal hospital. |
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Thanks to my guests Nury Marquez and Abby Starin for being here. |
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School to Career February 2, 2001 800 Manchester middle school students will spend a day at work, job-shadowing at one of 147 businesses. Source - Manchester School to Careers Partnership |
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Here's a look at some of the stories making headlines in New Hampshire business. The market for big houses is booming. Higher property taxes may have scared locals with limited means, but they haven't stymied top executives of Fidelity, Compaq, I-B-M, Digital who now own property on Lake Winnipesaukee. Realtors say that since January first, 61 properties on Lake Winnipesaukee have sold for more than 800-thousand dollars. Last year, 25 properties were sold. New Hampshire International Speedway owner Bob Bahre is one of the lake's new homeowners. He is building a five--million dollar home complete with turrets and tiered terrace overlooking the lake. Three New Hampshire hospitals have joined to provide more radiation therapy services. Under the agreement, radiation oncology staff will be shared among Elliot Hospital in Manchester Concord Hospital and Exeter Hospital. The collaboration will mean less travel time for patients in need of services. The hospitals say the arrangment will offer economies of scale and accessibility to radiation therapy in response to growing demand. New Hampshire snowmobilers are expected to make their pilgrimage to the North Country in record numbers this year. Woods, remote country and a surplus of snow create ideal conditions for snowmobiling. For a region that used to hibernate in winter, the transformation has been a boon for the rustic lodges, eateries and other businesses. About six-thousand miles of trails are maintained by a core group of volunteers. |
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Earlier in tonight's broadcast we focused on the program that introduces high school students to the workplace. Now we look at a program designed to bring the workplace to the classroom. Producer Chip Neal takes us to the Eastman School in Concord where second graders are learning the value of community and much more in Wolfpack village. |
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pkg singing "Here we come.we're going to take a short recess then we are going to work some more." kids talking Larry Wolfe: I'm trying to give kids reason to do things, reasons to learn things and to apply it and use it in the context like our village. And if I can do that then I can show them the practicality of what they are learning and that is one of my goals is to really let them use what they are learning and understand why they are using it. kids singing. Chip: Alright Bryana, let's go. Bryana: This is the Rent Shop where you can rent lots of books. Chip: Rent books, ok. Bryana: And this is the Recycle Shop where you can where you use recyclables. Chip: Recycables. Have you had any customers yet today? Boy1: Ah, yep this is Jamie, my first customer. Chip: OK. Alright, Bryana. Bryana: This is the editor's seat where you can edit lots of things where the editor can edit things. Chip: OK. Bryana: This is the Ceiling Shop where you can rent things on the ceiling and then play with them on the ground. Chip: OK. Bryana: This is the Drama Shop where you can get clothes and things for skits and plays. actor1: Hi Josh! What's the matter? actor2: I think my mouth is falling apart. actor1: Falling apart? Why? actor2: Look my tooth is wiggly. actor1: Sure it's going to fall out. It's supposed to. actor2: It's supposed to fall out? What for? actor1: All of your teeth will. It happens to everybody. Larry Wolfe: This started nine years ago when I was talking with the school environmental educator in our district Edwina Jokowski. And Edwina mentioned something about a village unit that was being studied in the upper elementary grades. And she said, 'You know you oughta really think about this village unit.' And all I heard was the word 'village', and I started think of 'Village. Wow, that would be cool if we had a village where kids could actually run it.' And have the shops, and have the kids directing kids. Chip: Now can you tell me what you are doing here? Bryana: We are picking what we want to do for the meeting. Girl: It's an agenda meeting, and we are setting up an agenda. Chip: What are you building? Boy: A bookshelf, a shelf for books. Chip: A bookshelf. Bryana: Around here is the post office where you can post out mail. This is the Ob Shop where you can observe things and look at things under the microscope. Larry Wolfe: Well, first of all our district started at the grass roots level, and a lot of different members of the community were gathered together, different groups, to ask themselves--you know-- what is it that we want our high school students to be able to do by the time that they leave high school. And out of that discussion, and out of all that work came seven global objectives. One of them for instance is being an effective communicator. So, what I've tried to do is I've tried to create a village in which kids have several or many opportunities to communicate with each other. Bryana: Amy Coe? Amy: In favor. Bryana: Emily. Emily: In favor. Bryana: Ok it's a law. Girl: How many was it? Boy: How many? Bryana: Twenty-one in favor and three abstention. Larry Wolfe: I want them to value our democratic process that is one of our global outcomes is for kids to be community participants and to have respect for the democratic process. And that's why we run the village meetings with the hearts rule of order, just a very simple way to run them, but the kids do a pretty good job with it. And it gives them a focus for the discussion. If I can get kids provide great conditions under which they can use their imagination and have opportunities to explore and experiment and work together and brainstorm, if I can create conditions under which that can occur, I think I'll feel successful as a teacher cause I want kids to use their imaginations. singing.When we stand together as one.We are the world; we are the children; we are the ones who make a brighter day so let's start giving. |
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Tomorrow on New Hampshire Outlook - The Upper Room: Few people know about the Derry, New Hampshire program that's providing help to thousands of working families. What happens when a kid gets sent home from school for the day? He goes to the Upper Room. Parents go their too. to learn how to talk to their kids. See why so many people are drawn to the program. and we visit with a seacoast photographer who has an international reputation for his innovative work in three dimensional photography. |
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That's it for this edition of New Hampshire Outlook. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for the Goddess Trilogy We'll be back tomorrow at 7:30. Good night. |
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Tonight on NH Outlook What happens when a kid gets sent home from school for the day? He goes to the Upper Room. Parents go there too. See why so many people are drawn to this program. Join us tonight at 7:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |