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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)

• Kindle Books in Snack Sizes

  There has been discussion about adding video, color pictures, links, and other extras to ebooks to raise the price. Here is the flip side of that idea: FT Press is selling stripped-down, 1,000- to 2,000-word versions of books, for $1.99, and a new s (read)

• UK & World News: Teacher qualification shake-up call

  A group of MPs have called for the bar to be raised on the qualifications needed to become a teacher, amid concerns the current requirements are too low. It is of 'great concern' that students with no A-levels or only a pass at degree can be offered (read)

• Stroke Association looks for health promotion students

  THE Stroke Association Northern Ireland is looking for health promotion students and health promotion professionals to volunteer in delivering sessions on smoking and stroke in Lisburn and across the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust area. T (read)

• Picture special: Bats given a boost by primary pupils

  LAMBOURN Primary School pupils gave bats a boost on Saturday as they made nesting boxes for them and met four native species. Children and their fathers took part in a workshop organised by the Extended Services Partnership at the school in Greenway (read)

• Education letters

  The job market for young people in ­construction is indeed challenging, to say the least (A failure to do the maths, 2 February). However, in the recession of the 1990s, training budgets were slashed and a devastating skills gap appeared in the sect (read)

• Library Events: Feb. 8th -- Feb. 20th

  Quick links to:Adults & Seniors | Teens | Kids | More InfoADULTS & SENIORSMystery Book Discussion -- Monday, February 8th at 7pmJoin us for a discussion of Pleasing the Dead by Deborah Turrell Atkinson! New members are welcome and books are a (read)

• Michael Bierut: 'Clients are the Difference Between Design and Art'

  Michael Bierut of Pentagram gives “a brand new talk on the subject of Clients.” On Tina Roth Eisenberg’s swissmiss website, commenter Stratton Cherouny says: Perhaps the most valuable 'exit video' any matriculating design student c (read)

• YouTube - Every Violent Act in 2010 Superbowl Ads

  Visit YouTube – Every Violent Act in 2010 Superbowl Ads (read)

• Government advisory role for University lecturer

  A lecturer at the has been awarded a prestigious Public Sector Placement Fellowship to work with HM Treasury to advise on the psychological factors people use when making choices. Dr Rachel McCloy, of the School of Psychology and Clinical Language (read)

• UK Magnet School Taps New Boundary Technologies for Software Deployment, PC

  minneapolis, business wire -- new boundary technologies today announced nova hreod, a magnet school in swindon, england, is successfully leveraging the company's pc configuration, security and pc power management technologies to ease school-wide soft (read)

• Tough new visa rules 'to hit Welsh language students'

  Students travelling to Britain to learn Welsh may be put off by the Government?s new visa rules requiring applicants to speak passable English, an MP warned today. Plaid Cymru?s Elfyn Llwyd said imposing the tough new system on Patagonian students wh (read)

• Rotarians and pupils collect £18k Haiti cash

  A SCHOOL raised almost £3,000 for victims of earthquake-devastated Haiti in just one day. Pupils from the Mayflower High School, in Billericay, raked in the cash for the Haiti Relief Fund by baking cakes and having a uniform swap day. A total of £2 (read)

• Scottish News: Rise in university applications

  Thousands of Scots could miss out on a place at university after applications increased by almost a third, student leaders warned. Figures from the applications clearing organisation Ucas showed that by the main January deadline 38,763 Scots had appl (read)

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• Links for 2010-02-07 [del.icio.us]

  Tories to control Candidate Tweets Bad move given they want to expose more people to Tory thinking. (read)

• Vischer on Catholic Legal Theory

  Robert K. Vischer (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law) has posted Whn is a Catholic Doing Legal Theory Doing 'Catholic Legal Theory?' (Seton Hall Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What does... (read)

• Dillard on Future Children as Property

  Carter Dillard (Loyola University New Orleans) has posted Future Children as Property (Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Between Skinner v. Oklahoma and the advent of modern substantive due process, proc (read)

• Good Times

  Last night we went to our friend's house for some really good food. The ladies sat and visited while the guys watched something on TV, I can't remember what. (read)

• butthole-ectomy

  noun. A precise procedure that renders the patient mercifully butthole-less.Real citation: '@LexiChambers that sounds painful! Gives new meaning to 'anal retentive'! @PubChick u need a butthole-ectomy!'(Feb. 2, 2010, Jenn Kleiner, Twitter, http://twi (read)

• US: With federal stimulus money gone, many schools face budget gaps

  Extract not available. (read)

• My Domestic Church Daily Clips 02/08/2010

  The Auschwitz Album - Eretz YisraelStunning pictoral history of Auschwitztags: history, Jewish, Nazi, photographyPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. (read)

• February 2010 025 [Flickr]

  elliemom posted a photo: (read)

• Response to snow days... Losing spring break? Tests pushed back?

  No school today, of course, and with none of the secondary roads plowed around my way and another 6-12' of snow coming on Tuesday, I don't see how we can have school this week. In previous snow experiences here in Baltimore, I was able to get up and (read)

• Focus on the Family psychs out the Feminists

  No Abstract (read)

• The massive hypocrisy of Andrew Cuomo

  No Abstract (read)

• STUDENTS preparations for careers in the Army, the Navy or the police force

  Beauty therapy students at the College of West Anglia's Isle campus ready to tear strips off the uniformed services team. 1749BP210 STUDENTS' preparations for careers in the Army, the Navy or the police force could not have got any worse... when they (read)

• Zero-carbon schools to be introduced in the UK by 2016

  The first ever zero-carbon schools will be built across England in the next six years, it has been announced. Schools secretary Ed Balls recently laid out plans for at least four pilot zero-carbon schools to be operational in each government region (read)

• Dundee pupils boost city's Haiti relief fund

  Earthquake-ravaged Haiti is to receive at least 12,250 thanks to the kind-hearted efforts of Dundee's schools (writes Lisa Trainer). The city's relief fund received the money today after an on-going fund-raising effort, which has brought the total to (read)

• Alcester Nursery Studio celebrated for being 'excellent'

  THE staff of Alcester Nursery Studio have attended an event to celebrate being in the top two per cent of the country's childcare providers. Alcester Nursery Studio was judged to be an Outstanding Childcare provider after an Ofsted inspection last (read)

• Scottish News: Rise in university applications

  Thousands of Scots could miss out on a place at university after applications increased by almost a third, student leaders warned. Figures from the applications clearing organisation Ucas showed that by the main January deadline 38,763 Scots had appl (read)

• Scottish News: Teacher training places to be cut

  About 1,500 teacher training places are to be axed next year, it was announced. Trainee primary teaching numbers will fall by more than half, bearing the brunt of the cuts, according to Scottish Funding Council figures. The announcement prompted an a (read)

• Scottish News: Rise in university applications

  Thousands of Scots could miss out on a place at university after applications increased by almost a third, student leaders warned. Figures from the applications clearing organisation Ucas showed that by the main January deadline 38,763 Scots had appl (read)

• Tim Tebow Commercial

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• Oooh, that's gonna sting

  'After taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money.' Michael STeele, head of the Republican party. (read)

• Update: NAVTEQ Shutting Down Phone Map App Nav4All that Uses NAVTEQ Data

  NAVTEQ responded to NAV4ALL's claim that its license was unexpectedly not renewed in an Italian blog (strange place to make a statement on the matter in my opinion). It's view of things: ... it [NAVTEQ] was simply unable to reach an agreement tha. (read)

• Mystery Collection Disc 8

  The Man on the Eiffel Tower, 1949, color. Burgess Meredith (dir.), Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace, Patricia Roc. 1:37 [1:27]. Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret, with a young Burgess Meredith as a wo (read)

• Innovation, open access and more at the Library Leadership Network

  What’s new and improved on the Library Leadership Network (LLN)? Articles in Read & Learn We’re this close to completing the long process of moving material from the old, wiki-based LLN to the new, Drupal-based LLN–a process tha (read)

• Republicans Should Beware Televised Healthcare Negotiations

  It will be carefully staged to make the president look moderate. (read)

• Lager or Ale? Consider the Silicon Content of Beer

  Silicon, found in beer, helps bone mineral density. But what kind to drink? (read)

• New Federal Climate Change Agency Forming

  The Obama administration is proposing a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. (read)

• Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck Top Tea-Party Picks

  But most still don't know about the movement, says a new Washington Whispers poll. (read)

• Financial Planners Offer 2010 Investment Advice

  Short term bonds and large cap stocks are among the most recommended investments (read)

• In Tough Times, a Library Branch Reopens

  nyt – “in the midst of a budget cut that is forcing it to cut back hours at two-thirds of its locations, the new york public library has found something to celebrate: the reopening of the st. agnes branch on amsterdam avenue and 81st stre (read)

• Up in The Air - movie for Boomer airheads

  Up In The Air is every baby-boomer's wet-dream. It's narrative crack for the sentimental, story loving middle classes. A nasty, chemical concoction of conceits. Ingredient 1 - Implausibly good-looking ageing actors (Clooney & Farmiga).Designed t (read)

• UK Magnet School Taps New Boundary Technologies for Software Deployment, PC

  minneapolis, business wire -- new boundary technologies today announced nova hreod, a magnet school in swindon, england, is successfully leveraging the company's pc configuration, security and pc power management technologies to ease school-wide soft (read)

• Taste of sleeping rough for pupils

  Dozens of pupils got a taste of what it is like to sleep rough during the winter months as they slept outside their school to raise money for charity. More than 40 students and staff slept in tents in the grounds of Costessey High School as part of a (read)

• Burnley FC aim to found UK's first football university

  EXCITING and ambitious plans to change the face of Turf Moor and the surrounding area with millions of pounds of investment, including the building of the UK's first football university, have been unveiled by Burnley Football Club bosses. The massive (read)

• Students gear up for AMP awards

  MEMBERS of Boston Spa School's enterprise team are building up to the final of the AMP awards. With the help of Kaley Gardiner, founder of website The Last Detail, the students have been working for weeks to raise money and awareness for the competit (read)

• Jewish school 'proud' of improving Ofsted report

  AN ORTHODOX Jewish school for disabled children has been told to consider improving the way it integrates religious and secular teaching. A report into the independent special needs school, Kisharon, based in Finchley Road, Temple Fortune, has been (read)

• SAT tuition provider, Tutors International London, offers new college appli

  Tutors International London, a specialist provider of SAT tuition for students in London applying to American universities, has launched a new college advice service designed to support students and families through the US College application process (read)

• Scholarship America(R) Founder, Dr. Irving Fradkin, Receives Community Part

  Scholarship America(R) is proud to announce that its founder, Dr. Irving Fradkin, is a recipient of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees annual Community Partner for Publication award. The Greater Fall River Vocational School District (read)

• Author poll: Spring target dates

  We’ve asked editors to give us some information about their submissions windows. I thought it might be useful to check with authors as well. If you’re planning on sending out your masterwork this spring (and aren’t we all?), what (read)

• MBA Scholarship from the MBA Tour

  The Peter and Alice von Loesecke Scholarship Foundation, an MBA Tour foundation, is awarding an MBA scholarship to at least one student who is an entrepreneur or leaving the family business to go to business school. The scholarship is also open to s (read)

• Dr. Lewis to Participate in the Inaugural University College London UCL Fin

  ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZIOP) announced today that Jonathan Lewis, MD, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, has been invited to present at the Inaugural UCL One Day Finance Conference to be held on February 15th. The event will take place in London (read)

• Should Super Bowl be a Saturday Night Special?

  Another Super Bowl is over, and millions of bleary-eyed people are showing up for work this morning, if they haven't called in sick. But congrats to the Saints who've gone from 'Who Dat?' to 'We Dat!'Super Sunday. Eat, drink and be merry. Not so good (read)

• Chester students set out to break world record

  Dee-Votion Events team: Back row, Lianne Armistead, Scott Taylor and Rebekah Duke and front row, Maria Cedrola and Andrew Johnston. A GROUP of students are getting set to break a world record for the largest three-legged race ever. Dee-Votion Events (read)

• Students gear up for AMP awards MEMBERS of Boston Spa School's enterprise t

  MEMBERS of Boston Spa School's enterprise team are building up to the final of the AMP awards. With the help of Kaley Gardiner, founder of website The Last Detail, the students have been working for weeks to raise money and awareness for the competit (read)

• UK Magnet School Taps New Boundary Technologies for Software Deployment, PC

  NewBoundary Technologies® today announced Nova Hreod, a magnet school in Swindon, England, is successfully leveraging the company's PC configuration, security and PC power management technologies to ease school-wide software deployments, secure IT (read)

• labour irked as education lead loses seat on admissions board

  Oliver PughLabour has been kicked off the education board that runs Southwark school admissions, despite being the second largest party in the council.The move has irked Labour members as the councillor concerned, Veronica Ward, is also the party's (read)

• Record numbers of students apply to university

  Some 570,500 people have applied to start university this autumn, an extra 106,000 (22.9 per cent) on last year, according to statistics published by admissions service Ucas. Last year, some 480,000 people won a place. It is thought that slightly few (read)

• Chester students set out to break world record

  Dee-Votion Events team: Back row, Lianne Armistead, Scott Taylor and Rebekah Duke and front row, Maria Cedrola and Andrew Johnston. A GROUP of students are getting set to break a world record for the largest three-legged race ever. Dee-Votion Events (read)

• Scottish Government Launches A Website To Support Teachers Out Of Work

  A website to support unemployed teachers to access Continuing Professional Development (CPD) has been launched, alongside new guidance on CPD for supply teachers. The CPD Step-In website will be available to any trained teacher and provides a range o (read)

• February 2010 Early Reviewer Books at LibraryThing

  The February 2010 batch of Early Reviewer books is now available at LibraryThing. There are 3495 copies of 107 books available this month (read)

• Chatterbooks (UK)

  'Chatterbooks is a reading group programme for children aged four to twelve which is all about encouraging a love and enjoyment of reading. With Jacqueline Wilson as the patron, and authors and publishers supporting the scheme, Chatterbooks is a grea (read)

• The question of shoes

  Those high heel platform shoes are so hot right now (if you say it like Jacobim Mugatu from Zoolander it sounds better). I quite like the look of them - something about those curves and wotnot - but am sensible enough to know that I simply cannot wea (read)

• Carnival of Homeschooling Week 213 Published

  The Carnival of Homeschooling week 213 was published at As For My House.This Carnival provides a lot of homeschool-related reading. Take a look!I have an entry in this week's carnival.If you have a blog or a website and write about homeschooling I e (read)

• US: With federal stimulus money gone, many schools face budg

  Federal stimulus money has helped avoid drastic cuts at public schools in most parts of the nation, at least so far. But with the federal money running out, many of the nation's schools are approaching what officials are calling a 'funding cliff.' (read)

• Children 'still at risk' of harm

  home » british-asian news » detail ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- children 'still at risk' of harm date: 08/02/2010 an ofsted inspection into (read)

• Cam House School in Dursley no longer in special measures

  Cam House school in Dursley is celebrating after Ofsted said it is making impressive progress and is no longer in special measures. Ofsted, which visited the school in December, said there has been a huge change for the better in the schools culture (read)

• Lord Mayor of the City of London addresses students in Dubai

  (MENAFN Press) The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman Nick Anstee, spoke to Cass Business School students and alumni at the Emirates Towers Hotel today. This event was organised in partnership with the British Business Group (BBG). More than (read)

• North Wales News: Lib Dems promise more money for Welsh schools

  SCHOOLS In Wales would receive an extra £80m to pay for more teachers, better discipline and catch up classes under Liberal Democrat spending plans. (read)

• Travel needs talent

  TES Editorial © 2010 TSL Education Ltd. All pages of the Website are subject to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any material on the Website for any commercial purposes. TS (read)

• Jobs 'will be cut' in university funding row

  The majority of the positions lost would be academic, while some institutions may be forced to ditch courses and close campuses, the University and College Union (UCU) said. As the row over funding cuts to British universities deepened, workers at (read)

• Students put on show at New Theatre Royal

  Drama students put on a dazzling show in under three weeks to experience what it's like in the professional world. More than 50 students from the University of Portsmouth took to the stage at The New Theatre Royal for the performance of Lady In The D (read)

• Sing about Freedom, Sing about Justice!

  Take heart, the American dream comes directly from God as do all dreams of freedom around the world.. The "Spirit of '76" was the Holy Spirit and is our true North! Return to these roots and the task ahead of us will never be as great as the Powe (read)

• Global Education Opportunity Network (GEON) Partners with Vantage Communica

  (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) ----GEON, Inc. (http://www.yourgeon.com) (the Global Education Opportunity Network(TM)), a leading international student recruitment organization, has announced a new partnership with Vantage Communications (read)

• Secular Club Fights for Recognition at Lutheran College

  Organizers of the Secular Students of Concordia are trying to get officials of the Minnesota college to reconsider their refusal to recognize the organization, The Fargo-Moorhead Forum reported. College officials said that they could not recognize a (read)

• Still Banned at Saint Louis U.

  Six months after university nixes David Horowitz event, it resists Horowitz debate with head of AAUP. (read)

• Cheating Cases on Rise at Stanford

  In the last decade, the number of cheating cases considered by Stanford University's judicial board has more than doubled, to 123 from 52, The San Jose Mercury News reported. Stanford officials attributed the increase both to more cheating and more r (read)

• Gay Students Stage Basketball Sit-In at John Carroll U.

  Gay students and supporters at John Carroll University staged a sit-in on the basketball court prior to the start of a game last week to protest the university's refusal to add sexual orientation to the official anti-bias policy at the institution. T (read)

• Are Smarter People More Likely to Own Cats Than Dogs?

  New research from the University of Bristol finds that, in Britain at least, people who own a cat are more likely than those who own dogs to have a university degree, the BBC reported. According to the study, 47.2 percent of households with a cat hav (read)

• Furlough Fridays

  Herman Berliner (read)

• One Plate I Definitely Don't Want to Drop

  Susan O'Doherty (read)

• Surrattsville High's computer class taught without computers - Michael Birn

  No Abstract (read)

• Monday Memories--So what else is new in the labor market?

  My cousin sent these stats--I'd just seen them Saturday in another communication. Then I started counting my own work experience, and came up with ten jobs plus two unpaid positions by age 21.'The U.S. Department of Labor says that: 'Today's learner (read)

• Drawing on a promise. . . that isn't there

  In last week's State of the Union address, President Obama said,'Abroad, America's greatest source of strength has always been our ideals. The same is true at home. We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Co (read)

• Dr. Ralph Gerard

  Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. (read)

• Food for Thought

  6 Q's About the News | What do students read, do and learn about in 'Food, Land, and You'? (read)

• News Quiz | February 8, 2010

  See what you know about the news of the day. (read)

• UK visa rules may not hit UAE students

  (MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The United Kingdom's plans to introduce tougher rules to prevent abuse of student visas is unlikely to affect the flow of visitors from the UAE, according to a British Embassy official here on Sunday. The official said studen (read)

• Kaspersky Donates Computers to New England Schools

  Kaspersky Lab, a developer of Internet security solutions, said it is marking the culmination of the Company's season-long 'Touchdowns for Technology' program with the donation of 51 computers amongst 16 New England schools. In a release, the Company (read)

• Who says the WI is out of the loop? Today's youth answers its call to knit

  It's a good yarn: a group from the Women's Institute goes into a primary school, revives a lost craft and leaves pupils in stitches Teams of knitters from the Women's Institute are being drafted in to schools under a scheme designed to spark pupils' (read)

• Kellogg School of Management Ranks Google Best, Focus on the Family and U.S

  Extract not available. (read)

• Education reform without 'silver bullets'

  Your browser's settings may be preventing you from commenting on and viewing comments about this item. See instructions for fixing the problem. Discussion Policy CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comment (read)

• Tasmanian educator wins early childhood scholarship

  Tasmanian educator Sally Giacon has been awarded an inaugural scholarship designed to promote professional development in early years education. The scholarship was launched by the Tasmanian Early Years Foundation and the University of Tasmania's Fac (read)

• Stratford Career Institute Students Learn Real CSI Tactics With Updated For

  No Abstract (read)

• How to Go Back to School and Finish Your Degree Online

  During the recession, many adult learners have headed back to school. Online programs are often ideal for returning students that need flexibility and the opportunity to work around employment and family responsibilities. Take a look at this article (read)

• For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw

  Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students. (read)

• ::: and the winner is... :::

  Congratulations to the winner of the Coal Train Railroad CD! Debbie was chosen at random from those who responded to the review of Coal Train Railroad's jazz for kids album. I hope you and your little ones enjoy it, Debbie! Let me know whether you'd (read)

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