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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 243
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 243
March 14, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation with Brian Wienke of Accela
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History channel says series on American history will be offered free to sch
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Eurovision Song Contest Winners Mapped
No Abstract (read)
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A Birthday Rolex Submariner 1680
A timepiece that has been produced in your year of birth, seems to be an all-time favourite wish for many watch collectors. I’ll have to admit that I once almost pulled the trigger on a Speedmaster Professional from my year of birth (1977). How (read)
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The Audemars Piguet Of The Fashion Industry: Wallstreet Kingdom
People who love (luxury) watches will also be able to appreciate the other finer things of life. One of these finer things is – of course -Â fashion and in this case, shirts. Just recently, I came in touch with Wallstreet Kingdom shirts. The o (read)
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Statistical Atlas of the 9th US Census (1870) now online
'Presented here are all of the maps and charts from the first statistical atlas of the US Census, widely praised in its time and still a wonderful example of sophisticated graphics, the out-of-date racial/psychological nomenclature notwithstanding. T (read)
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march 2010 075 [Flickr]
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march 2010 075 [Flickr]
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Sunday Snippets - A Catholic Carnival
Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival is a weekly opportunity to share our best posts with the wider Catholic blogging community. To participate, create a post highlighting posts that would be of interest to Catholics and link to the host blog at This (read)
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St. Sebastian Confirmation Class 2010 [Flickr]
elliemom posted a photo:
The newly confirmed with Bishop Lennon. (read)
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eight is kasetzi (revisited)
kasetzi = eight (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for 'kazetzi': a very rare, nearly unique term; appears on a webpage that may be gobbledygook; similar word 'kaseti' seems to mean 'cassette' (as in cassette tape) in Swahili) Word deriva (read)
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My Campaign For Mayor
In October of 1995 I ran for Mayor of Brandon (Manitoba, Canada). The fact that I had lived in the city for only ten months made the gesture a little audacious; the fact that the incumbent mayor was running unopposed made it necessary.Yes, folks, my (read)
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Brunei students perform in UK
Brunei Night 2010 poster. Guest of honour at the event. - PHOTOS: ADI ASMAWI ADANAN First time directors - Yazid Yakub and Haadi Amdani. One of the scenes from the play. Lucky draw presentation by the Director of Studies. Guest performance by BruSot (read)
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I'm sorry for funding fiasco, says student loans chief
Apology to students left short of money as company revamps application process Close 'It was clear to me that we had failed in providing the sort of service we should' - RALPH SEYMOUR-JACKSON The chief executive of the Student Loans Company says his (read)
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US-style summer camps for poorer children
American-style summer camps for disadvantaged young people could be opened next year to prevent pupils from forgetting in the school holidays what they have learned during term. The plan is one of a number being considered by the Sutton Trust to cut (read)
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Christians expelled from Village of Hope in Morocco
One of the missions that our church supports is Village of Hope in Morocco. Now the Christians there have been accused of proselytizing and have had to leave. What appears here is the official statement, and this is the link that our church website (read)
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Edy's Slow Churned Snack Size Cups
Speak for yourself, Rick! He says he prefers a 4 oz serving rather than 6 oz. Not me. If these wonderful little snack cups were 4 oz, I'd eat two! Six oz. is just about right. We've tried the coffee, mint choc chip, vanilla bean and chocolate. T (read)
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Happy Pi Day!
Yeah, the posts have been scarce. This is entirely because my days are all basically the same. They tend to look like this:
Notice that it was a two coffee cup kind of day. (No, not just two cups of coffee. I laugh in the face of just two cups o (read)
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Homeland Security wants you to know your cybersecurity ABCs - Brittany Ball
No Abstract (read)
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Discovery Education and Wilkes University Announce First Graduates in Maste
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And... We're Back, plus a new mini-contest
As many of you may have noticed, the site was down for the bulk of this past week. First of all, we want to deeply apologize for this. We suspect it was due to a security breach in our software, and we're working to prevent it in the future by workin (read)
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Getting There
I still need to redo the header, and I'm still fiddling with the sidebar. I want to get back some of the buttons and fun graphics, but I've deleted the fan page area which had too many buttons to bother with.
I'm also undecided about the mood graph (read)
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'Looking for a Job' - Todd Snider
I saw Todd Snider on Monday night at The Ram's Head Tavern in Annapolis. It was crazy, going to a concert on a weeknight during the second week of coaching, but well worth it - a guys' night out with friends. Seeing Todd Snider live is one of the gre (read)
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Perfect song for a productive but lonely rainy Sunday
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How Does Walmart Save You Money?
Well, after they fire employees for using medical marijuana (even though it's legal in that state), they fight so as not to waste valuable profits on unemployment compensation.
After all, why tolerate marijuana use in an individual just because he h (read)
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SimpleGeo Powers Vicarious.ly: Maps 'all' the LBS Social Media Checkins
Vicarious.ly, built on SimpleGeo's development platform, collects 'check ins' from BlockChalk, Brightkite, Bump Technologies, Flickr, Fwix, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter and puts them on a Google Map. The dots are symbolized by the app they are (read)
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Online Learning: Students use online reviews to find easy graders on facult
With online sites that rate college professors, students have a lot more information at their fingertips when they choose their classes. Now, a survey suggests that a possible byproduct of these teacher review sites is grade inflation as students use (read)
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E-textbooks: The New Best-sellers - Knowledge@Wharton
Will Apple's iPad kill the textbook? Many educators are pointing to Apple Computer's recently announced iPad as the prototype for an e-reader that will be able to hold all the textbooks a student needs. Its color touch-screen, interactive-video capab (read)
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Online Learning: E-books could save students money - Ethan Walker, Univesit
I was one of the lucky ones this semester. I spent $292.50 on my school textbooks. For many years college students have bought textbooks at outrageously high prices and watched as those prices continued to soar while their bank accounts barely manage (read)
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Obama's plan for education reform: short on specifics, so far
By Patrik Jonsson Staff writer, CSMonitor (AXcess News) - President Obama will send the outlines of an education overhaul bill to Congress on Monday, promising sweeping changes to a faltering American education system. While short on specifics, Mr. O (read)
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u.s. education secretary to address national league of cities congressional
(Media-Newswire.com) - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will address some 2,000 elected officials from small to mid-size cities attending the National League of Cities' annual Congressional City Conference at 4 p.m. ET on Monday, March 15, in (read)
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School Soccer Player Killed At Mass. Birthday Bash
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- A high school soccer player has been stabbed to death outside a Massachusetts restaurant where more than 250 teenagers had gathered for a birthday party. Police say 17-year-old Conor Reynolds died after being stabbed in the neck (read)
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American Catholic school gives lessons in kindness
All pupils at St Peter the Apostle RC School, in Philadelphia, have been focusing on kindness this year. School social worker Jessica Baskin Taylor, MEd, has taught lessons on kindness, tolerance, anti-bullying, and anti-prejudice in each class from (read)
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School soccer player killed at Mass. birthday bash
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A high school soccer player has been stabbed to death at a Massachusetts restaurant where more than 200 teens had gathered for a birthday party. Police say 17-year-old Conor Reynolds died after being stabbed in the neck late Satur (read)
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Early Church Fathers Writings
While not considered authoritative, not being part of the Canon, these early writings are, nonetheless, interesting if for no other reason than their great age, and the little bits of insight we can gain about what at least some early Christians beli (read)
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Popular Science available on Google Books
Reported on the Observer today is that fact that Popular Science is now available through Google Books.This means that 136 years of its history are free to view online. There is a 12 month rolling wall, so the most recent issue is March 2009.Diarmuid (read)
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Americans Still Dreamers -- About Retirement
Preparations and attitudes toward retirement years remain out of touch with reality. (read)
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Swimming lessons at the British School of Swimming
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St Albans MP is first to be grilled by students
WITH a General Election on the horizon, students at a local school are learning about politics first hand. The first guest of government and politics students, together with pupils from the gifted and talented programme at St Columba's College in Ki (read)
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Nearly half of our schools are not up to scratch
NEARLY half of the Calderdale schools inspected by Ofsted recently were classed as inadequate. The result reflects a sharper focus on weaker schools and the impact of Ofsted's new inspection framework. Of the eight Calderdale schools visited between (read)
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Students help to create a new logo for college
TAVISTOCK College students are working with professional designers to create a new logo and uniform for the school. The college currently has a crest and several different logos, so students started to produce ideas for a single version during the la (read)
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USGS Satellite Maps of Post-Quake Port-au-Prince
The USGS released two satellite maps of the post-earthquake situation in Port-au-Prince last week: one in infrared, one in natural colour. Each is a 200-megabyte PDF. The maps are based on imagery we saw in raw form shortly after the quake; it̵ (read)
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Daylight Saving Time
In this map from Wikimedia Commons (reproduced here under its Creative Commons Licence), blue areas use daylight saving time, orange areas no longer use it, red areas never have.
Daylight Saving Time first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblo (read)
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Shawcroft on Google's Bike Directions
An interview with Google engineer Scott Shawcroft about Google Maps’s new bike directions; the audio is about five minutes long.
Shawcroft on Google’s Bike Directions first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on March 1 (read)
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Metro Map Designs
A large collection of official metro maps of cities around the world collected by Webdesigner Depot; it’s interesting to see which maps use a Beck-style diagram and which ones are more geographical. Via Jennifer.
Buy Transit Maps of the World (read)
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R.I. Students Upset Over Mass Teacher Firings
central falls, r.i. ' some of those most affected by the decision to fire all the teachers at a long-troubled rhode island high school say they want more say in what comes next. the decision last month to fire 93 teachers and other staff from central (read)
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Firing of all teachers at RI school roils students
central falls, r.i. some of those most affected by the decision to fire all the teachers at a long-troubled rhode island high school say they want more say in what comes next. the decision last month to fire 93 teachers and other staff from central (read)
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Students in anti-bullying honour
Students in East Sussex to receive anti-bullying honour Students from across East Sussex are to be presented with a national award for their outstanding contributions to dealing with bullying behaviour. The Diana Anti-Bullying Award, named in honour (read)
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it's the quiet things that no one ever knows...
Sometimes I think the way people work is amazing.I had a manic ten minutes last night, the house all of a sudden began to drive me crazy. I spent an hour on the beach, smoking, thinking, listening to Brand New. It astounds me how much calmer certain (read)
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Alison Bernstein Receives American Council on Education's Lifetime Achievem
Alison Bernstein Receives American Council on Education's Lifetime Achievement Award NEW YORK, March 11 -- The Ford Foundation issued the following news release: Alison R. Bernstein, vice president of the Ford Foundation's Education, Creativity and F (read)
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When politics and religion trump science, education suffers (commentary)
At a time when American students rank an abysmal 21st in science literacy when compared with students around the world, state legislatures should be passing laws to strengthen science education ' or at least refrain from enacting bills that make (read)
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Tribal schools see future in Native American teachers
Extract not available. (read)
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Pupils slamdunk their way to the top
A team of girls bounced, dribbled and ally-ooped their way to the top of a basketball competition. Year 7 students at Bridgewater School, in Berkhamsted, were crowned the winners of the annual county basketball tournament at the end of last month. An (read)
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Call to Action: Save State Funding for Florida's Public Libraries
On March 10, 2010 appropriations committees in the Florida House and Senate adopted positions eliminating all funding for Florida's State Aid to Public Libraries program.
We are now looking for Volunteers to protest at the Florida State Capitol Build (read)
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E-reading update
A couple of months ago I downloaded the free Kindle application for iPhone. E-readers seem to be taking off right now what with the success of the Kindle device itself and competitors from Sony and Barnes & Noble. Plus there’s the coming (read)
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Study: School-lunch regulars are fatter
A student reaches for a hamburger at Palmer High School in Colorado Springs. ( Joe Amon, Denver Post file photo ) Students who regularly eat lunch provided by their schools are more likely to be overweight and have higher levels of cholesterol (read)
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Tamulmol
adjective. Enrico Miguel Mallari. Null minded. Zero Neuron (read)
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The PD Problem
I’ve been reading Linda Darling-Hammond’s new book The Flat World and Education, and while I’m finding it rich with detail about everything that’s troubling about the US education system (and the potential fixes), I’m al (read)
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Well, it's 1 am
Soon it will be 3 am instead of 2 am. I'm going to bed, having finished the game notes. Had a good day at work; I was a little too bouncy for my tastes, and managed to insert my foot into my mouth is a most spectacular way (twice), but survived wit (read)
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New crossing for Ilfracombe pupils
PUPILS at Ilfracombe C of E Junior School will joined a 'green walk' to school today (Friday) to celebrate the opening of a new zebra crossing in Ilfracombe. The Devon County Council scheme on Highfield Road has been introduced after the need for a (read)
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Tiverton pupils hold Children's Parliament
NEARLY 50 pupils from schools in and around Tiverton held a 'Children's Parliament' in the town hall last Thursday. The children, aged from seven to 12, gathered to discuss leisure provision in the area and the plans for a new high school for (read)
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Spotlight on Fairfield University
Fairfield University Chapel
WalkingGeek / Flickr
Today's college spotlight takes us to Fairfield, Connecticut, an affluent town on the Long Island Sound with easy access to New York City. Founded in 1942, Fairfield University is a relatively young (read)
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Italian Seismic Action on Google Maps
No Abstract (read)
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Library of Congress Information Bulletin - July/August 2009
Library of Congress Information Bulletin - Vol. 68, Nos 7-8 - July/August 2009 - is now available online (read)
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Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles
Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis : Seria Stiintele Vietii (Life Sciences Series)Contabilidade Vista & RevistaPolarforschungRevista Argentina de Ciencias del ComportamientoMacramèMusica e TecnologiaEspaço PluralActa Polytechnica HungaricaOndokuz M (read)
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Michael Gorman receives 2010 Haycock Award
'ALA is announcing Michael Gorman, past-president of the American Library Association, as the 2010 winner of the Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship. Gorman is the 10th winner of this award, funded by Ken Haycock. Gorman is the University L (read)
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Two reasons for 'teaching Facebook' in school
Will outlines a conversation with a superintendent, one of whose parents wanted her child pulled from a classroom where, frankly, some brilliant learning and teaching practice was taking place. The reason?'Our students don't need to be a part of a (read)
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un-world-domination-istic
adj. Sounds kinda bunny-y to me.Real citation: 'Took Two Career Tests Today, They Said: Fighter Plot And Murder Trial Attorney. Really? These Are Too Un-World-Domination-istic For Me.'(Feb. 16, 2010, Alex Carey, Twitter, http://twitter.com/Alll3x/sta (read)
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Braunton pupils remember Dunblane
BRAUNTON students Adele Williams Anna Frisby and Nicole Bromham pause for reflection amongst the daffodils planted at the school in memory of those killed in the Dunblane tragedy. DAFFODILS in bloom again have acted as a reminder for Braunton School (read)
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Probe into claims Nelson primary school not OFSTED registered PLANNING offi
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 ' as required by law. The school is believed be the Al-Ikhlaas Education (read)
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The New Entrepreneur
Creation and innovation are key elements in education. Research is concerned with discovering new schemes of connectedness between entities and evaluating the validity of those connections. No where does informal research, innovation, creating, and p (read)
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Data Visualization
Roughly everything we do online is content of some sort. Each click can be captured. Each thought expressed in digital format serves as a future connection point. The trails we leave may not have much value today, but when someone decides to analyze (read)
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Nothing like a disbound book of hours to attract medievalists
Like a moth to the candle flame. You see, when I visit a museum or library where a book is on display I usually get to see 2 pages - at whatever place the book happens to be open. But when they take a book apart for conservation there's the opportu (read)
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Second guessing
I'm not sure if East of Eden was a great choice for Seniors with about six weeks left of real high school. Heavy and long. Or maybe that's me saying that. I'm in the throws of trying to get National Boards done (due March 31st), plus running a Lit Ci (read)
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TX adopts more conservative social studies stan
TX adopts more conservative social studies standardsThe Texas State Board of Education agreed to new social studies standards on Friday after the far-right faction wielded its power to shape the lessons that will be taught to millions of students on (read)
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Student and faculty perceptions of trust and their relationships to sc
by Moore, Dennis M., Jr., Ed.D., The College of William and Mary, 2010, 152 pages; AAT 3392571Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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Successful strategies used with ADHD students: Is an ADHD classroom a
by Furtick, Kari C., Ph.D., Capella University, 2010, 109 pages; AAT 3390338Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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The impact of the academic component of Response to Intervention on co
by Pennycuff, Lisa Lee, Ed.D., The College of William and Mary, 2010, 205 pages; AAT 3392573Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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The implementation of a Reading Recovery program for at-risk first-gra
by Daniels, Angie L., Ph.D., Capella University, 2010, 157 pages; AAT 3390336Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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Interim assessment use in Iowa elementary schools
by Lai, Emily Rose, Ph.D., The University of Iowa, 2009, 208 pages; AAT 3390174Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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The relationship between participation in prekindergarten and early el
by Rosney, Kelley Michelle, M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2009, 61 pages; AAT 1474178Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF (read)
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SouleMama Sponsor ~ TOT TOPPERS ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ today, i am pleased to tell you about a new sponsor tot toppers. in kate's words: 'tot toppers - custom knits and patterns for your little tot. i got started by designing hats in particular, and now (read)
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Spring Break 2010
Some schools are already on spring break. Others start their break this week. Daylight savings time began at 2 a.m. this morning. Easter is only a few weeks off.
While your children are home, be sure to schedule your activities so that you can spend (read)
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Spotlight on Schools for the Arts
Private schools which educate talented students in the arts are few and far between. When I was in high school, Montreal had no dedicated performing arts schools. Instead I schlepped off to McGill University's Saturday morning theory and sight singin (read)
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Dan Roam
If we...create pictures [by] breaking down any problem and its corresponding picture into distinct 'who,' 'what,' 'how much,' 'where,' and 'when' elements, we can convey the 'how' and 'why' to anyone in a way they will understand. (read)
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In Which The DHM Shares Her case of the Gimme-Gimme Greedy Grabs
For her birthday, the DHM would not cry of a broken heart if she received one or more of the following from this list:
a hundred kisses
A floor scrubber
a pretty coffee cup (or one with a picture of the grandbaby on it)
What the World Eats
Some (read)
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Welwyn Garden City students meet Olympic stars
BOXING champion Barry McGuigan inspired college students on a motivation day as part of National Apprenticeship Week. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below. The message will include the name and email address (read)
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Heads warn over education policy
Children are encouraged to gain first hand experiences through play Head teachers in Cardiff have warned they will not be able to deliver the continued roll-out of an assembly government flagship education policy. Primary school heads in the city (read)
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'Operation of children's services not up to me'
THE councillor in charge of children's services in Calderdale has denied he has control over the day-to-day running of the failing department. Guidelines dictate someone in the post held by Coun Craig Whittaker, the portfolio holder for Calderdale (read)
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Study finds link between school lunches, obesity
Students who regularly eat school-furnished lunches are more likely to be overweight and have higher levels of cholesterol than those who eat meals brought from home, a study found. The survey of middle-schoolers found that 39 percent of those who al (read)
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Charter school similar to traditional school
QUESTION: What is East Texas Charter School and why would you go there? What kinds of students attend school there? ANSWER: The short answer is, it's a tuition-free, public high school to which East Texas students may apply to attend. About 150 stude (read)
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Ofsted judges wowed by north Suffolk high school
Hartismere High School has been praised by education watchdog Ofsted for a huge improvement in its standards, after seeing its mark rise from 'good' to 'outstanding' in four years. The school's Sixth Form Centre made a pronounced leap, skipping a gra (read)
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Why Montgomery teachers won't stop advocating for schools
Since Feb. 5, The Post has seen fit to run three editorials attacking the Montgomery County Education Association and its political activism. One has to wonder why The Post, given its stated support of reform efforts in public education, chooses to (read)
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Recovery Act Funds for States
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Here at Home
It is a beautiful sunny day here in Central Virginia. The temperature is in the high 60's!! Rain is expected later this week so I'm enjoying each day.Not much new and exciting has been going on here. I'm trying to remain faithful to my work here at (read)
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How Do You Make A Yugo Cool? Turn It Into A Book.
How do you double the value of a Yugo? Fill the gas tank.
What do you call a Yugo that breaks down after 100 miles? An overachiever.
Remember the Yugo? Jason Vuic would like to remind you of its not-so-illustrious story. The Yugo: The Rise and Fall (read)
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Betty White set to portray a librarian on ABC sitcom.
Betty White will guest-star on the season finale of The Middle. The four-time Emmy winner will play a school librarian who goes after a student over several overdue library books.
What? A librarian chasing down an overdue library book? What hijinx! (read)
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Re-upping the Patriot Act...On the Media
President Obama recently signed into law the re-authorization of three contentious provisions of the Patriot Act. Shane Harris, author of The Watchers, returns this week to discuss the implications for the future of American surveillance. Transcrip (read)
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100+ Free Online Classes
Whether you want to learn a new language, play an instrument, or sharpen your math skills, there's a free online class to help you succeed. Take a look at our free online class directory to find over one hundred no-cost courses on subjects like busin (read)