Grand Rapids man sentenced to life for providing fatal dose of fentanyl to retired judge’s daughter
Updated Apr 26, 2021;
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KALAMAZOO, MI “Even if I had the discretion, this court would have imposed the same sentence anyway,” said U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney while sentencing Javontae White to life in prison.
White, 28, was found guilty on Jan. 14 of one count of distributing fentanyl resulting in the July 2018 death of 33-year-old Grand Rapids woman Elaine Christensen. White, who has seven prior felony convictions, was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence on Monday, April 26 at the federal courthouse in Kalamazoo.
Two Texas State professors are working to improve children s education through a computer science research project focused on a collaborative and relational way of problem-solving between humans and computers.
The method of problem-solving, or computational thinking, is about finding effective solutions. With computers being relatively new, there is not much literature or research on how the early development of computational thinking could benefit children if taught at an early age. However, computers have become essential to how humans communicate and interact.
Dr. Sean Justice, an assistant professor of art education, and Dr. Lori Czop Assaf, a reading education professor, believe teaching computational thinking is just as important to a childâs learning path as reading and writing.