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The exercises mimic the earliest reflexes made by a baby

Researchers are to investigate whether following a set of systematic movements for 10 minutes a day in class can boost pupils results.

The Primary Movement project involves getting nine-year-olds to do set exercises to nursery rhymes and will be tested in 40 schools in north-east England.

The exercises mimic the earliest reflexes made by babies and foetuses.

The theory is that children can be held back if such reflexes persist.

Trisha Saul from the Primary Movement project said: “Some of the songs and the nursery rhymes will be familiar, its the movements that are different.

“These are the are designed to replicate movements the foetus makes in the womb and the baby makes in the first six months of their life.”

‘Into a butterfly’

She explained how such reflexes become inhibited in most children within the first year of life.

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A snapshot from one of two Panel for Educational Policy meetings about school closures in 2011.

Boisterous protests against school closures have long been accused of lending a circus-like atmosphere to the annual meetings where the Panel for Educational Policy votes on closures. This year, though, the opposition will actually have three rings.

Three separate groups are planning protest actions during tonights PEP meeting, where the citywide school board is set to vote on — and presumably approve — 23 school closures and truncations. (Changes to two schools were taken off the table yesterday.)

City officials have vowed not to let the protests disrupt the panels proceedings, suggesting that panel members and protesters alike could be in for a long and potentially combative night. Last year, the panel approved 22 closures in two separate meetings that each lasted well past 1 a.m. In 20

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ARCADIA — What started out like a close basketball game the Muir High School boys basketball turned into a track meet in the third quarter.

The visiting Mustangs used their trademark swarming defense to create scoring in transition, going on a 20-3 run and never looking back to dispatch Arcadia 77-64 on Monday night in Pacific League action.

The latest result was nowhere near when the teams met in the league opener, Muir (19-1, 8-0) needing overtime period and 38 points from Jelani Mitchell to get past Arcadia (9-11, 2-6).

This time, Mitchell and the high-flying Mustangs showed their defensive prowess, limiting Arcadia to empty baskets on nine of 10 possessions and five turnovers during Muir’s offensive spurt that started with the Mustangs leading 36-33 with 6:58 left in the game.

“I didn’t know all of those numbers but I did think the guys played with a lot of energy in that third quarter,” Muir coach Gamal Smalley said.

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CROOKSTON, Minn. University of Minnesota, Crookston Chancellor Charles Casey plans to retire at the end of the school year.

Casey made his announcement during his “State of the Campus” address. His last day as chancellor will be June 30.

Casey has been UMC chancellor since September 2005. He also has held other university leadership roles, including serving as a member of the Board of Regents and as dean and director of University of Minnesota Extension.

During Casey’s tenure the Crookston campus saw significant enrollment gains, including four consecutive years of record enrollment. The number of degree-seeking students hit a record of 1,600 for the 2011 fall semester.

California’s public colleges and universities are changing too many rules unilaterally and should be more accountable to the public, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office said in a report released last week.

California State University is setting its own rules for raising executive salaries; the University of California is shifting who is eligible to enroll; and community colleges are hoarding data that should be open to the public, say the higher education experts who advise the Legislature.

To fix the problem, the state should create a system for higher education oversight, according to the report, which points back to 1960 when the California Master Plan for Higher Education warned of the need to keep a watchful eye on the state’s three higher-education systems.

For years there was such a body, the California Postsecondary Education Commission.

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