Hahaione Elementary School will be bidding Aloha to Ms. Cindy GIorgis at the end of the 2014 Calendar Year. The Hawaii Department of Education has announced her replacement, Mr. Shannon Goo,…
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East Honolulu Girls Softball Forming
East Honolulu Girls Softball (EHGS) is taking applications for interested players. Especially needed are girls for the 14 and under team (players born between Jan 1, 2000 and Dec 31, 2001), A…
Hawaii Public Education 2013-2014 Math and Reading Rank for Middle Schools
What is the optimal rate of math or English proficiency for any public school? Public school proficiency arguably shouldn’t be 100 percent. The problem with 100 percent proficiency is the price of…
Middle School College Preparedness in Hawaii – Ranking ACT Scores
Sometimes I think transparency in Hawaii is literal: you can’t see it. These data come from the Hawaii Department of Education website out of a link that I only seem to be…
Why Middle Schoolers need Open Source
Do you have old hardware and software the kids won’t use? Did you buy them a new computer knowing that you’d be repeating this again next year? Stop. You can end that…
A faster Minecraft: Installing the program on Linux
I installed Linux Mint on our PCs to extend equipment life and to give our keiki additional resources to do their homework with. What I didn’t expect was how happy the kids…
Returning Life to an Old XP Computer
Chances are that April 2014 came and went without your alarm. Sadly however, that is the date Microsoft stopped supporting its 12-year operating system, XP. The biggest issue for me, was simply…
Hawaii Public Schools College Readiness Rankings
From the 2012-2013 database, here are the top 5 Hawaii public high schools (excluding charter) based on 11th grade ACT scores. Percent scoring at or above 19 on the 11th grade ACT:…