Word: dowsing
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The 152 students who attend CAL-Dows High School, situated just down the hall, are a bunch worth emulating. The older students juggle calculus and physiology classes with school trips to Spain and statewide jazz-band competitions. Some make time every day to tutor first-graders in math or reading...
Drawing from four farm towns, the CAL and Dows school districts, in a chicken-and hog-farming area about 90 miles north of Des Moines, are excelling despite declining enrollment. They have successfully negotiated the kind of consolidation that often tears schools and communities apart. And they serve as models...
Four years ago, the Dows district, 11 miles southwest of Latimer, had only 75 high school students and just six third-graders. It was on the verge of shutting down its schools. The CAL district--product of an earlier consolidation--offered a rescue plan that included a grade-sharing arrangement...
CAL Elementary offers two years of publicly supported preschool, while Dows provides space for a private preschool in its building. This early experience gives the students a jump start. "Kids need to feel comfortable in school, or they're not going to learn very well," says CAL Elementary principal Brian...
Meanwhile, the two grade schools are learning from each other. CAL will introduce a Spanish-language curriculum next year based on one that Dows already has in place, while Dows instituted a program for gifted students that follows CAL's lead.