EDUCATION Lincoln Elementary students sport togas Greek...

EDUCATION

Lincoln Elementary students sport togas

Greek Day returned to Lincoln Elementary School in Corona del Mar

on Wednesday, representing the culmination of the sixth-graders’

yearlong studies on ancient civilizations. The festivities, which

involved 95 students dressed in togas, included Olympic games and

Greek food being served by their parents.

Associate Professor Linda Barron in the UC Irvine Graduate School

of Management conducted a study that tried to explain why women ask

for less money than men during salary negotiations. The study

revealed that women entering the work force generally ask for lower

initial salaries than men and attributed much of that behavior to

women’s different beliefs about worth, entitlement and proving

oneself.

An Orange Coast College fund-raiser brought in $63,000, which will

help save 21 of the colleges classes. They had been cut because of

the state’s budget crisis.

Pomona, Whittier and Wilson Elementary Schools received more than

2,000 books over the past few weeks as part of the Los Angeles Times’

“Reading by 9” program. The program, sponsored by the Daily Pilot and

the three Newport Beach Rotary Clubs, provided recreational reading

books for kindergarten through third-grade students at the three

elementary schools.

* CHRISTINE CARRILLO covers education and may be reached at (949)

574-4268 or by e-mail at [email protected].