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View Education headlines on HDLNS.com
HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. (read)
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Does the Size of a School Matter?
The lessons drawn from Kansas City's decision to shutter nearly half its schools. (read)
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Making Sense of the Census: Ideas For Classes Across the Curriculum
In this lesson, students consider the purpose of the census and examine the issues surrounding the 2010 census. They then do one of several multidisciplinary activities designed to make it relevant to their experience, perspective and learning. (read)
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Club donates $5,000 to San Clemente schools
'We know our schools are being hit hard,' she said. 'With the budget crisis and all our kids going to these schools, we just said we want to give each of our schools some money.' The Capistrano Unified School District must close an anticipated $34 (read)
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JACCC Announces Ohara School of Ikebana Exhibition
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Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas. P
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Recession Endangers Childhood Education Program
All Education Week articles and commentaries, plus breaking news to keep you informed between issues. Searchable Archives, a database of 25 years of news, information, analysis and opinion in the field of Education Archived Annual Reports - Quality (read)
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Lesbian Teen Sues to Force School to Hold Prom
All Education Week articles and commentaries, plus breaking news to keep you informed between issues. Searchable Archives, a database of 25 years of news, information, analysis and opinion in the field of Education Archived Annual Reports - Quality (read)
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Wash. Lawmakers Settle on K-12 Reforms
All Education Week articles and commentaries, plus breaking news to keep you informed between issues. Searchable Archives, a database of 25 years of news, information, analysis and opinion in the field of Education Archived Annual Reports - Quality (read)
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In Ill., Choice is Higher Taxes or Education Cuts
All Education Week articles and commentaries, plus breaking news to keep you informed between issues. Searchable Archives, a database of 25 years of news, information, analysis and opinion in the field of Education Archived Annual Reports - Quality (read)
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Few Details About Ambitious K.C. School Closing Plan
All Education Week articles and commentaries, plus breaking news to keep you informed between issues. Searchable Archives, a database of 25 years of news, information, analysis and opinion in the field of Education Archived Annual Reports - Quality (read)
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Teacher-student sex 'never kid's fault'
(CNN) -- Middle- and high school students may look to their teachers as mentors or even friends. In rare but high-profile cases, experts say, the relationship may go too far, into the sexual realm. However the situation unfolds, the it's always the (read)
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Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education
A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation's public school children should learn in math and (read)
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The state of U.S. education
Yes, I would like to receive occasional CNN member updates about new features and special offers. CNN will use the information you submit in a manner consistent with our Privacy Policy. By clicking on 'sign up' you agree with CNN's Terms of Service a (read)
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Aussie massacre threat shuts US schools
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Daily Spotlight on Education 03/12/2010
YouTube - Social Networking: Horizon ProjectExcellent social networking video from the archives of FlatClassroom projects. Demoing this at MACUL.tags: education, digitalcitizenship, bestpracticesFunny or Die's Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell, (read)
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No Ink, No Paper: What's The Value Of An E-Book?
Morning Edition on NPR
The growing popularity of e-books has raised a difficult question in the publishing marketplace that used to have an easy answer: What's a book worth?
Because they cost less to produce, consumers think e-books should be cheap. (read)
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Cantigny Archives Project Reflects Diversity of Appalachian Contribution to
The following post was written by Shea Daniels, a sophomore Creative Writing major. She currently works on the OU Libraries Digital Initiatives projects, and is an co-founder of the OU student group, Future Women of Appalachia. Find out more abou (read)
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New Movie Titles - Mar. 15
Alcuin Library's new movies:Shall We Kiss?Ong Bak 2Bushwick HomecomingsIn a Year with 13 MoonsThe SecretsThe Sensation of SightPrecious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by SapphireUp in the AirIncubusPandorum212Scent of a WomanBoston Legal: Season ThreeThe (read)
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And the Oscar goes to...
Congratulations to the winners of the Red Carpet Movie Contest - Rachel Ziegler and Aaron Sinner!!Thanks to everyone that participated!-sg (read)
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Darlington pupils report for BBC
Teenage news hounds from Haughton School and Beaumont Hill School joined forces to produce TV news reports for BBC School Report 2010. More than 700 schools and 25,000 pupils took part in events across the UK. The BBC's Deputy Director General Mark (read)
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McCain brings food education program to Scotland
March 2010 McCain's Potato Story is hitting the road in Scotland for the first time as it embarks on the sixth leg of its National primary school tour. Launched by Scottish TV presenter and celebrity mum, Andrea McLean, the Potato Story is designed t (read)
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Probe into claims Nelson primary school not OFSTED registered
PLANNING officers from Pendle Council are to investigate rumours an all-Muslim primary school in Nelson is not registered with OFSTED - the Office for Standards for Education â as required by law.The school is believed be the Al-Ikhlaas Education (read)
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Brooklands students in the Dragons' firing line
BUSINESS students from Brooklands College are preparing to enter their very own Dragons' Den to pitch an idea on how to make their lives easier. Teams from the college, in Church Road, Ashford, have been challenged to create a product or service that (read)
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Half of schools seen by inspectors failing
30AM GMT. More than half of schools inspected in the West Midlands are failing to provide pupils with a good education, according to the latest figures from government watchdog Ofsted. Across the region, 236 inspections were carried out between Septe (read)
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Schools mainly satisfactory says Ofsted
Ofsted has released the official data showing inspection outcomes for the first four months of the new inspection framework. In Rochdale Borough, Ofsted carried out inspections at seven schools from 1 September to 31 December 2009. One school was rat (read)
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'Outstanding' grade for Hartismere High
A headteacher at a Suffolk high school has credited a recent outstanding inspection report as a 'fine achievement for the whole community'. Hartismere High School in Eye was handed the glowing verdict by Ofsted after an inspection last month . The sc (read)
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Exchange trip lets pupils get to know German twin town
A GROUP of pupils from King James's School visited Germany over the half term holiday. The pupils were on an exchange visit to the Bebra Brder-Grimm-Schule, the senior school in Bebra, Knaresboroughs twin town, and were staying for the week-long visi (read)
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Success story at Bemerton St John
A PRIMARY school branded a failure by inspectors has been turned into a success story in just a year. Bemerton St John School has been taken out of special measures six months earlier than expected. Ofsted says the school is now satisfactory, with ma (read)
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University of London External System Graduation Ceremony draws crowds from
University of Graduation Ceremony draws crowds from across the globe Thousands of people from around the world will converge on London's Barbican Centre next week for the University of . A record 800 graduates from every corner of the globe Jamaica (read)
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Turnaround head warns mergers can cause decline
The principal of a college credited with the fastest turnaround from failure to success has warned that mergers could send further education institutions into decline Inspectors this week told Riverside College Halton in Cheshire that it had achieved (read)
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Colleges urged to outsource services and save thousands
Shared administration and new technologies could help keep costs down, says Becta Colleges should outsource more of their central and administrative services to make savings, the head of the Government's education technology body said this week. Usin (read)
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Another View - Is it the business of colleges to adopt a corporate culture?
'We called for hands. They sent us people.' The words are those of Willy Brandt, one of those rare politicians whose name can habitually be found in the same sentence as the word 'humane'. As chancellor in the early 1970s of then West Germany, he was (read)
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Class supervisor sentenced for sex with pupil, 15
A Bridlington class supervisor at a school where a series of staff members admitted relationships with students will be sentenced for having under-age sex with a 15-year-old pupil. Christopher Reen is the fifth member of staff at Headlands School in (read)
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Coventry News: Six schools handed honours for GCSE performance
SIX schools across Coventry and Warwickshire have scooped major honours at a glittering awards ceremony celebrating top GCSE performance. Three schools were among award winners for high student achievement in their 2009 GCSEs - Finham Park School in (read)
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Class supervisor sentenced for sex with pupil, 15
A Bridlington class supervisor at a school where a series of staff members admitted relationships with students will be sentenced for having under-age sex with a 15-year-old p (read)
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Bridlington: Class supervisor sentenced for sex with pupil, 15
A Bridlington class supervisor at a school where a series of staff members admitted relationships with students will be sentenced for having under-age sex with a 15-year-old pupil. Christopher Reen is the fifth member of staff at Headlands School in (read)
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Esher pupils bid to become journalists of the future
Students from Esher Church of England High School joined up with their peers from about 700 schools on Thursday, March 11, to take part in a BBC project aimed at encouraging kids to engage in the news. The 33 year 8 students from the More Lane school (read)
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Teaching assistant to be sentenced over affair with pupil
A teaching assistant who had an affair with a pupil at a troubled Bridlington school is due to be sentenced today. Christopher Reen, 32, became the fifth member of staff at Headlands School to be involved in a sex scandal with a pupil. He has been wa (read)
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Over 7,000 UK school kids set to battle it out in head-to-head online quiz
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A mixed blessing
Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's Genome: In two studies, scientists quickly scanned individuals' DNA to get at causes of disease
On the one hand, single-gene disorders such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease could be detectable earlier and (read)
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I feel better
A friend worked on my back tonight, much like a chiropractor would, putting the spine back in place correctly. I came home (bumpy bus ride that isn't great for my back ensued), put IcyHot on my neck (well, the pharmacy version, anyway), and went to (read)
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Friday Fun with Google Maps
No Abstract (read)
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Free Philosophy Books & Podcasts on Audio
Check out 25 of the top free philosophy books, lectures, & podcasts available online. For the past three years we've featured dozens of free philosophy resources as part of our Free Resource of the Day Emails. From these resources we've... (read)
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Best Free Audio Books Online
Here we have showcased 40 of the top free audiobook downloads available online. For the past three years we've featured a Free Audio Book every Friday as part of our Free Resource of the Day Emails. From these resources we've... (read)
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600 New Podcasts in Our Directory
We have just added 600 new podcasts to the LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory! We searched all over the Web to find the best podcasts you can learn from in every category. Our LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory now features over 2000 podcasts. Since. (read)
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Top 25 Free Resources
We've been sending out our Free Resource of the Day Emails for three years now. If you've not subscribed yet, we highly encourage you to do so. Who knows what magnificent free audio & video learning resources we'll dig up... (read)
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Best of TeachOutLoud
Our TeachOutLoud service has enabled authors and publishers to publish their audio learning content for almost three years now. Since we launched this service over 1200 titles have been published on audio download. We've now put together this list of (read)
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Presidential Inauguration Speeches From FDR to Obama
Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President Of United States this week and delivered his Inauguration Speech. We thought we'd feature a collection of Presidential Inauguration Speeches going back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Inauguration Speech (read)
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Top 40 Free Motivational Resources
To give you a boost for the start of 2009, we thought we'd showcase the top 40 free motivational audio & video learning resources that we have featured on our site. For the past three years we've featured a... (read)
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$1 of Every Order to Literacy Bridge Charity
Between now and December 31, 2008, LearnOutLoud is donating $1 from every order placed on LearnOutLoud.com to Literacy Bridge, a nonprofit charity that distributes Talking Book Devices to impoverished rural areas with low literacy levels. Their pilot (read)
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50 Affordable Stocking Stuffers
Still don't know what to get a friend or family member for Christmas? We've got a great (and a bit biased...) suggestion: Audiobooks. Why are audiobooks such great gifts? Because they don't require the recipient to take any time out... (read)
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150 Best New Audio Book Releases from 2008
At LearnOutLoud.com we've assembled a list of the 150 best new and most popular audio book releases from 2008. You can view all of our audio book new releases here: www.learnoutloud.com/New-Releases To make it easy, we've divided this list of... (read)
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Presidential Candidates Audio & Video Resource for Election Day 2008
With only one week left until the United States Presidential Election, we wanted to feature our updated Presidential Candidates Audio & Video Resource page. This page features resources from all the presidential candidates that are on enough ballots (read)
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John McCain on Charlie Rose: 1997-2007
Senator John McCain has been interviewed over a dozen times by Charlie Rose since 1997. We've select the 10 most significant interviews and featured them here. This set of videos provides an excellent portrait of McCain over the past... (read)
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Guide to Audio Tours
With the proliferation of the iPod and portable MP3 players, audio tours have become an increasingly popular way to explore new places when traveling to tourist destinations. They're cheaper, less obtrusive, and often better than taking a guided walk (read)
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2008 Audie Award Winners
The Audie Awards took place on May 30th in Los Angeles. For those of you who've not heard of the Audies, they are basically the Oscars for audio books. Here are some highlights of the winners which we offer... (read)
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500 Free Titles From FORA.tv
FORA.tv offers over 2000 free videos from over 115 different partners covering the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues. Their partners include bookstores, think tanks, colleges, institutes, and many other public forums (the (read)
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National Book Critics Circle announces its winners for the publishing year
On Thursday, March 11, 2010 the National Book Critics Circle announced its award winners for the publishing year 2009. Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (Holt) won the fiction award. The poetry award went to Rae Armantrout's Versed (Wesleyan University Press (read)
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Checking Out the Future: Perspectives from the Library Community on Informa
Checking Out the Future: Perspectives from the Library Community on Information Technology and 21st-Century Libraries by Jennifer C. Hendrix. ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Policy Brief No. 2, February 2010 (read)
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
'The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are in (read)
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The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Answers in Quotations. 'This week's brainteaser is all about quotations - the people who originated them, what they said, the people or things they described, etc.' Answers here.1. What is the (read)
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Tweets, Printing your
No Abstract (read)
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Teacher Mauled to Death by Wolves in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska ' A teacher jogging along a rural Alaskan road was killed in an animal attack and authorities say wolves are the chief suspects. The body of Candice Berner, 32, was found Monday off the road a mile outside the village of Chignik Bay (read)
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Boundaries always teacher's duty
(CNN) -- Middle- and high school students may look to their teachers as mentors or even friends. In rare but high-profile cases, experts say, the relationship may go too far, into the sexual realm. However the situation unfolds, the it's always the (read)
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Court Upholds 'Under God' in Pledge of Allegiance
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CT: Connecticut calls new U.S. education standards 'a good m
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American Studies Seminar for English Teachers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Fea
Dr. Banning Garrett, Asia expert at the Atlantic Council, addressed a group of twelve scholars and Ph. D. students about U.S.-Chinese relations at the Institute for Asian Studies in Hamburg that is part of the German Institute of Global and Areas (read)
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Half of schools in US district closed
A school district in Missouri has found a way to deal with the long-standing problem of its sink schools: . Kansas City, Missouri, which forms one giant metropolitan area with its adjacent twin, Kansas City, Kansas, has announced that it is shutting (read)
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On the road...
Posting will resume this weekend. (read)
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Links for 2010-03-11 [del.icio.us]
Donald Clark Plan B: Moodle: e-learning’s Frankenstein
Educationalists love to talk about learner-centric, constructivist models of learning but usually default back into a didactic, lecture-driven, 'I teach-you learn', behaviour. Stray too fa (read)
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Learning powered by technology
The National Education Technology Plan (.pdf) reads like a somewhat random mix of concepts that have been discussed in various blogs and forums over the last decade: connected learning, 21st century skills, data-driven improvement, learning networks, (read)
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7-quick takes
Join Jen and the other Quicktakers over at the Conversion Diary.
1. Tonight my son Gabriel becomes a full adult member of the Catholic church. The bishop will be coming here to confirm him.This is the first time that I can remember that THE bishop h (read)
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ugh-why-am-I-here?-F-MY-LIFE-itude
noun. A quality found in just about everybody--except that guy.Real citation: 'Student receptionists are less-helpful versions of old lady receptionists w/ the added bonus of having an ugh-why-am-I-here?-F-MY-LIFE-itude'(Nov. 13, 2009, Adam Tamez, Tw (read)
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Missing Mayors and Freeholders in our Libraries
This is less of a post and more of a request for comments.
I’m just curious how many of us have seen their mayors in the library recently? How many librarians have seen any state/city official in their library over the past year or so?
Is he/ (read)
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More Tips to Manage Yourself in the Last Round of MBA Applications
The following is a guest post from Yael Redelman-Sidi, an experienced MBA admissions consultant who provides customized guidance for business school students. If you are currently in the process of applying to top MBA programs and would like an objec (read)
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Not that I watch a lot of Rochester TV news, but I'd love to know who ducke
Massa's 2006 campaign alarmed Clarke. 'This guy's running for congress and he's molesting people!' He called a TV reporter in Rochester, NY, and told the stories of Massa's gropey tendencies. The reporter got Tom Maxfield to confirm the allegations, (read)
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Trust That Your Child Will Make it Through That Reading Phase
As a parent, you will only live through your child's fourth grade year one time. As a teacher, I've lived through fourth grade more than 20 times. Trust me when I tell you that in almost every case, your child will make it through 'That Reading Phase (read)
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The Bible in the English classroom
I had an interesting moment this week about using The Bible in my classroom. We are currently reading Steinbeck's East of Eden. If you haven't read this book before (and you should - it truly is one of the great American novels), Steinbeck draws very (read)
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Smith & Tuttle on Originalism & Biblical Literalism
Peter J. Smith and Robert W. Tuttle (George Washington University Law School and George Washington University Law School) have posted Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Critics of constitutional original (read)
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Norton & Citron on Government Speech
Helen L. Norton and Danielle Keats Citron (University of Colorado School of Law and University of Maryland School of Law) have posted Government Speech 2.0 (Denver University Law Review, Vol. 88, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: New expressive... (read)
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Good Teachers Are No Joke
I know very few jokes in Spanish. But I learned this one yesterday, seriously expanding my repertoire. It's not a pun like the others--so I'll give it to you in English:
How can you tell a good lawyer?
Well, there are tests. First, throw a c (read)
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Collaborative Retrospective Miscue Analysis: A pathway to self-efficac
by Seeger, Victoria Nell, Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2009, 331 pages; AAT 3389858Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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Consequences of asthma in elementary students
by Gonzales-Macias, Laura Denise, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2009, 111 pages; AAT 3391803Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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Implementing phonics interventions: An examination of consultation, in
by Lillly, Kristen, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University, 2009, 134 pages; AAT 3391936Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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The impact of a family home-learning program on levels of parental/car
by Morrison, Tomasine A., Ed.D., Florida International University, 2009, 144 pages; AAT 3393522Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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Texas educators take aim at 'left-wing' curriculum wi
Texas educators take aim at 'left-wing' curriculum with opt-out plansCountry and western music, the leadership of the Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and the work of America's most powerful gun lobby will all have to be taught in Texas schools (read)
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{this moment}
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same,... (read)
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Auriol Stevens: 'Should we think about creating a new university in Winches
Should top independent schools set up a new private university on the lines of American liberal arts colleges, providing high-quality teaching, a broad curriculum and charging full fees? The proposal, floated by Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor of the (read)
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Pupils pitch in for sporting success
s are celebrating after plans for an all-weather pitch hit the back of the net this week. The full-size second generation pitch, which can be used for hockey or football, will be accompanied by eight 16 metre high floodlights at the Springwood Road (read)
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Musical pupils from Royston take part in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall
Greneway pupils outside the Royal Albert Hall MUSICAL pupils from a Royston school took part in a gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall. The 32 children from Greneway School participated in the Hertfordshire Schools Sing Up gala concert at the histor (read)
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£80m West Cumbrian education bid loses out on funding
an £80 million project to build a new secondary school in workington and transform education across west cumbria has missed out on government funding but will be given a second chance. cumbria county council learned on monday that it was not among (read)
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West Cumbrian schools choose to keep sex education on the curriculum
AS FAITH schools around the country are being given the opportunity to opt out of sex education, West Cumbrian schools are keeping it on the curriculum. Schools Secretary Ed Balls has tabled an amendment to his Children, Schools and Families Bill, (read)
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Workington pupils start petition for play area
PUPILS at a Workington school have collected more than 200 signatures supporting a bid to have a neglected playground updated. The old Newlands play area, near Ashfield Infant School, has been left to go to ruin over the last few years. The school (read)
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Students quiz local candidates ahead of general election
A DATE for the general election might still be undecided but the three parliamentary candidates for the new Thornbury and Yate constituency have kicked off their campaigns. (read)
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FWHA ARRA Map
The White House Blog touts the Federal Highway Administration's ARRA Map which locates and details 12,000 road projects funded by that program. I could not look at the map; it's Silverlight based and crashed Safari.
- Whitehouse Blog via Gary Pric. (read)
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MapQuest Links to FaceBook
There's a new feature on MapQuest to make it simple to share maps, directions and places to your Facebook friends; MapQuest Share to Facebook.
- MapQuest Blog
For developers: the new platform V6 will be shown off at SXSW. Quick hit of the 'wid... (read)
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A Woman in GIS on PBS Kids Science Show
Mallory Peper is GIS specialist at Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Westwood Professional Services. Peper works with Westwood's energy team to provide mapping and analysis for wind, solar and transmission projects.
She'll be on the PBS series 'SciGirls' . (read)
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Another Social Site Mapped: Chatroullette
The Chatroullette site is basically a random chat site (with a lot of adult content). I've not visited but I did listen to Leo Laporte when he visited. Now comes ChatrouletteMap which maps some of the chatters. Because the app basically connects the (read)
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Peter Drucker
Today's corporation is structured around layers of management. Most of those layers are information relays, and like any relays, they are very poor. Every transfer of information cuts the message in half. There needs to be very few layers of manageme (read)