Making cents for children: Penny charity brings math, education, peace lessons full circle – The Central Asia Institute and Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Missoula, Montana

The Lewis and Clark Elementary School http://www.mcps.k12.mt.us/portal/Default.aspx?alias=www.mcps.k12.mt.us/portal/lewis students of Kathy Dungan and Jane McAllister are learning math by learning about peace http://www.mcps.k12.mt.us/portal/lewis/PenniesforPeace/tabid/1902/Default.aspx .

And they are learning about peace by learning about education.

Through all that, they are beginning to understand the way the world goes round.
The lesson started a couple of years ago, when the Missoula school, along with Lowell School, got involved with Bozeman mountaineer Greg Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute https://www.ikat.org/ .

Mortenson, author of the best-selling “Three Cups of Tea,” http://www.threecupsoftea.com/ (Great Holiday Gift!) is the mastermind behind the building of schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2008/12/06/news/mtregional/news08.txt

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More about the Central Asia Institute: http://matr.net/news.phtml?cat_id=106&catlabel=Three+Cups+of+Tea+-+The+Central+Asia+Institute