Trinity Day School in Tulsa praises the work of a little-known Oklahoma program for improving the behavior of children in its classrooms and strengthening the school's curriculum.

The Child Care Consultation program fits a recommendation made by a national panel last week as a way to reduce expulsions in early childhood programs.

Allison Geary, special projects coordinator for the nationally accredited Trinity Day School, said the school has used the consultants at least seven times in the last six months.

"It benefits our school as a whole," Geary said. "Parents can have more confi dence that we are not only relying on our own instincts and knowledge, which are good, but also on the body of scholarly research to follow best practices."

The program's goal is to keep children enrolled in centers when they might be in danger of being asked to leave.

Healthy Woman Today Newsletter June 2007

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U.S. Marine arrested over rape in Japan's Okinawa

A woman strolls an area where Tyrone Luther Hadnott, a 38-year-old marine of Camp Courtney in Okinawa, is believed to meet a Japanese schoolgirl, in Okinawa city, southern Japan, Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. Japanese police arrested the U.S. marine Monday for allegedly raping the 14-year-old Japanese girl, but the suspect denied he raped the teenager, police said. (Kyodo News/AP Photo) .