Jada Pinkett Smith is now schoolmaster..

The 37-year-old actress-producer-musician,Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will Smith, opened the New Village Leadership Academy last fall. The private school, for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, has 60 students, according to the Web site.




Jada Pinkett Smith hopes to open a companion campus for upper grades. Pinkett Smith, who is set to star in and executive produce a new series on TNT, said Jada Pinkett Smith decided to open the elementary school after creating a home-school program for her children, 10-year-old Jaden and 8-year-old Willow. The New Village Leadership Academy generated some controversy when it was first announced because it relies on instructional methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The school's director has said it isn't a Scientology facility.
Hubbard's "study technology" is a secular course akin to a Montessori approach, the Web site says.



Pinkett Smith said the school stresses "100 percent mastery," encouraging students to retake exams until they score 100 percent. The student body is ethnically and economically diverse, Jada Pinkett Smith said, "which is a very difficult thing to find in Los Angeles, Calif." Jada Pinkett Smith called the school project "serious business." "It's probably the hardest thing I've ever done,"



Jada Pinkett Smithsaid, "but it is really rewarding." Pinkett Smith shared her thoughts on education during a cocktail party celebrating her new show, "HawthoRNe," in which she plays a widowed nurse struggling to overcome her grief while balancing her duties at the hospital with those as a single mom of a teenage daughter. The show is set to premiere in June on TNT.

Biography of Chelsie Hightower

Chelsie Hightower is a dancer who came in fifth place on the reality show. She is a new addition, as a professional, on the eighth season of the reality dancing series. She partners with rodeo star Ty Murray.



According to her MySpace page, she graduated from high school and then attended Utah Valley University for a semester before pursuing dance full time. Her ultimate dream is to teach others to dance, and hopes that her time on the show can open up other avenues for her to pursue her goal.






Fast Facts:

1. Full name: Chelsie Kay Hightower

2. Birth place: Las Vegas, Nevada

3. Residence: Pleasant Grove, Utah

4. Began ballroom dancing when she was nine

5. Dance style: Latin

6. Hobby: Singing

7. Won her first national dance title at the age of 11

8. Was a member of Team U.S.A.

9. Has a dancewear clothing line with Sugar and Bruno

Hot and Sexy photos of Jessica Simpson

Here are some hot and sexy photos of Jessica Simpson...........

Jessica is worried about her boyfriend

Jessica Simpson is worried her boyfriend will never propose.




The singer-and-actress has been dating American football quarterback Tony Romo for around 16 months, and is becoming increasingly frustrated at his unwillingness to commit. A source claims Simpson said: "I know Tony loves me, but I don't know if he'll ever propose." Simpson (28) was convinced Romo, also 28, would pop the question on Valentine's Day and was left devastated when he failed to do so. A source said: "Jessica was really hoping she was going to get an engagement ring.



She wanted one for Christmas, then she thought maybe New Year's Eve. Her last hope was that Tony would propose on Valentine's Day — but he didn't." The star was also said to be furious after Romo took her for a meal at exclusive New York restaurant The Waverly Inn but spent much of the evening texting on his phone.



A witness said: "Jessica was not happy. He just wasn't picking up on the fact that she was starting to lose her patience." Simpson has been discussing her relationship woes with her 24-year-old sister Ashlee — who has three-month-old son Bronx Mowgli with her husband Pete Wentz — and her friends, who are also concerned Romo will never make her his wife. A source told America's OK! magazine: "Ashlee has always been the more realistic, the more practical of the two sisters. And Ashlee knows how much her sister wants to be married and have a baby of her own. But as wonderful as Tony is, he is not the marrying kind — probably not for years."





Photos of Tony Romo

Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells

WASHINGTON – Reversing Bush policy, President Barack Obama on Monday cleared the way for a significant increase in federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research and promised no scientific data will be "distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda." Obama signed the executive order on the divisive stem cell issue and a memo addressing what he called scientific integrity before an East Room audience packed with scientists.



He laced his remarks with several jabs at the way science was handled by former President George W. Bush. "Promoting science isn't just about providing resources, it is also about protecting free and open inquiry," Obama said. "It is about letting scientists like those here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it's inconvenient especially when it's inconvenient. It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology." He said his memorandum is meant to restore "scientific integrity to government decision-making."



He called it the beginning of a process of ensuring his administration bases its decision on sound science; appoints scientific advisers based on their credentials, not their politics; and is honest about the science behind its decisions.