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Tax Day!!
So, it seems like students might be confused about taxes. The IRS has links for ways to file for free. And links to help you decide if you really do need to file. Taxes are due on April 15th, that's why they call i (read)
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Minn. lawmakers to give teaching rules a new look
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The Boy Rocks the Science Fair
Dean Dad (read)
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Berkeley Faulted on Managerial Waste
The University of California at Berkeley has released a consultant's report recommending $75 million in savings through better management, including streamlined business systems and the elimination of 'redundant' management positions, The San Francis (read)
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The Anti-Amethyst Initiative
A chancellor wages war on drinking culture at a 'party school' after several student deaths. But some students think his methods could exacerbate risky behavior. (read)
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Clang
Dean Dad (read)
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Mothering at Mid-Career: On not having an iPad (yet)
Libby Gruner (read)
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Garmin Oregon 450 Reviewed
On GPS Tracklog, Rich Owings has a review of Garmin’s Oregon 450 handheld GPS receiver. (I’m finally at a point where I can read such reviews and understand what they’re getting at.) Rich recommends it: “The Oregon 450 is a g (read)
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Recently Observed GPS Quirks
I drove to Toronto and back over the weekend. I knew the way, but I used my Garmin nüvi 255W (see previous entry) to navigate. Of course, there were some quirks. I have the following observations about what it recommended:
It’s deeply schi (read)
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Stanford Law Review, Issue 62:3 (March 2010)
Stanford Law Review, Issue 62:3 (March 2010)
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Did Liberal Justices Invent the Standing Doctrine? An Empirical Study of the Evolution of Standing, 1921-2006
Daniel E. Ho & Erica L. Ross
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All Hands on Deck: Local Governments an (read)
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Reasons for literacy to love the iPad #1
I'm selling a bunch of iPad ideas to my investment panel tomorrow on behalf of my client companies and looking forward to producing some fun, engaging and hopefully profitable little apps early on in the new marketplace, before it, too, gets over-o (read)
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Five times
I just stayed up until 1 a.m. grading papers to help give feedback before a test that students are taking on May 3, that I feel like I care about five times as much as my students do. Tonight, I coached a close, nail-biting game that we lost and I fe (read)
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Miss. county schools ordered to comply with desegregation order
A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white sch (read)
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Prisoners given GCSE certificates
Five inmates at the Isle of Man's prison have achieved GCSEs in core subjects. The four men and a woman were given certificates for achieving a grade C or above in English and Maths by home affairs minister Adrian Earnshaw MHK. They achieved the (read)
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LSW Zine number three: Lost and Found
It's time to think about the next LSW zine. The theme: lost and found. (read)
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School on the Deck
The Boy calls this their 'cave.' He originally had it set up with a smaller blanket and books weighting the blanket down on the deck railing, but the wind kept catching it. I suggested a bigger blanket and clothesepins. Thrift shop blanket, (read)
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A Ragbag of Quotes on Doing Ye Next Thinge
'Do Ye Next Thinge.'
'Lose this day loitering, and 'twill be the same story
To-morrow; and the next, more dilatory:
The indecision brings its own delays,
& (read)
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The Baby P inquiry shows witch-hunts still thrive | Jenni Russell
The pressure was on Ed Balls to serve up a head to the howling crowd - and the public checks to ensure calm utterly failed Ed Balls must be the luckiest man in politics. Just before the Easter holidays the high court permitted the release of (read)
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UK's BLi Education expands into America
- UK education sector specialist BLi Education , has announced it is to expand its global export offering and launch into the American education market with the opening of a North American office. The Oregon-based office is BLi's first in America. Th (read)
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Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said.A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,00 (read)
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Sporting pupils get trip to San Siro
Pupils from a Telford school are set to visit the famous Stadio San Siro - home to Italian footballing giants AC Milan and Inter Milan - on a school trip.The group of 64 pupils from Hadley Learning Community left for Italy on Tuesday and will not ret (read)
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Scottish News: Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said. A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,000 (read)
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Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said. A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,000 (read)
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Scottish News: Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said. A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,000 (read)
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Top UK architectural firm BDP commissions ALHOSN University stude...
Company: International Real Estate PLC (PRIOF) ALHOSN University, a leading Abu Dhabi-based university dedicated to high-quality and value-based education, has announced that BDP, one of the top architectural firms in the UK, has commissioned ALHOSN (read)
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Movie Madness Monday 150:
Welcome to MMM 150, where we try to make you think where you've heard that line before, and then expect you to come up with more quotes in the comments section from the same film. This week, this is in honor of more mayhem at the workplace. Enjoy!'Fi (read)
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Ill. Lawmakers May Let Schools Adopt 4-Day Week
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Dr. Becky Smith, Former Executive Director of the American Association for
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Dr. Becky Smith, Former Executive Director of the American Association for
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Comparison of dental education and professional development between mainlan
Different educational and professional developments within the dental field create different sets of missions, norms, and practices regarding dental diseases and their appropriate treatment. This review has addressed differences in dental education a (read)
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Dr. Becky Smith, Former Executive Director of the American Association for
HealthTeacher announced today that Becky Smith, Ph.D., CHES, has been named as Senior Advisor to HealthTeacher. Smith retired in March, 2010 after serving 24 years as the Executive Director for the American Association for Health Education as well as (read)
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Dr. Becky Smith, Former Executive Director of the American Association for
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Too Big Not To Fail?
Some ideas from a recent post by Clay Shirky have been running around in my head for more than a week, although I’m not sure have enough of a grasp on them for this rant to make complete sense.
He starts with a book by an anthropologist and his (read)
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Promoting good handling - Preservation Advisory Centre Training Day (UK)
'Ensuring the safe use of collections by staff and readers is both good practice and a cost-effective method of preventing damage. Risk assessments regularly find that use of collections presents a high risk of damage, yet it is a risk that is easily (read)
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2010 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
The winners of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize have been announced (read)
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Directory of Open Access Journals - recently added titles
Revista de Administração da Unimep
Romanian Review of European Governance Studies
Meridiano 47 : Boletim de Análise de Conjuntura em Relações Internacionais
Dermatology Research and Practice
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology
Revis (read)
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Canadian Electronic Library Newsletter - April 2010
Canadian Electronic Library Newsletter - April 2010 is now available online. The Canadian Electronic Library provides libraries with over 25,000 current monographs online, fully catalogued and ready for instant use by all library patrons (read)
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Found on my ipad after sending it around the room
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CIL2010: Paul Holdengraber & David Ferriero
David Ferriero (Fair-ree-o) is th 10th Archivist of the United States and 'collector in chief'. He now blogs at AOTUS. Aotus is not a monkey or a pea (check Wikipedia) but it stands for the Archivists of the U.S. The Archives is an independent (read)
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Scottish News: Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said. A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,000 (read)
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Scottish News: Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said. A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,000 (read)
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Scottish News: Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said. A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,000 (read)
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Chief of British Bankers' Association gives lecture Hilton Hotel hosts ifs
AN audience of more than 200 gathered at the Hilton Hotel to hear British Bankers' Association chief executive Angela Knight CBE deliver the ifs School of Finance Isle of Man Centre's prestige lecture, Banking in a new Landscape. The event was hosted (read)
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Students warned over cheque scam
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Teens (14) will give sex advice to young pupils
Dundee school pupils as young as 14 will be delivering sex education lessons to their younger peers next month (writes Kieran Andrews). However, the Catholic Church confirmed today they have their own sex education programme, which will see them opt (read)
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Students warned over cheque scam
Students are being targeted by organised crime groups asking them to cash fraudulent cheques in exchange for a share of the money, police said.A man, 20, was arrested by Lothian and Borders Police after cashing a fake cheque worth more than £16,00 (read)
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Matlock pupils set to sing for Haiti appeal
SCHOOL children will be singing with some of the areas top performers to raise much-needed funds for disaster-stricken Haiti. The concert is being held at in Matlock and will feature pupils from Wirksworth Junior School, Darley Churchtown School and (read)
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Video Street View in Action
No Abstract (read)
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IndiToy, Inc. Develops New and Refreshing Approach to Learn Hindi
No Abstract (read)
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Why There's So Much Doubt About a Recovery
Many improvements in the economy are invisible to ordinary Americans. (read)
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2-Mile Scar On Barrier Reef After Ship Grounding
It could take 20 years for the world's largest coral reef to recover. (read)
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When Do You Become a Senior Citizen?
Only half of 64-year-olds consider themselves seniors (read)
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Ronald Reagan: The Elvis of the Political World
There has been a surge in events celebrating his 100th birthday. (read)
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Flat Tax Is Class Warfare
System's simplicity hides the further shifting of the tax burden to the poor and middle class. (read)
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Tree Disease Hits Gulf Coast Swamps
The ambrosia beetle could completely wipe out some of the most common trees along the Gulf coast. (read)
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Business Schools Failing Women
Forbes.com recently posted an article on why business schools are failing women. The article offers gender statistics (MBA programs admit only about 30% women annually) and explains why business schools need to work harder to increase the MBA value (read)
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Re: National Board in the WTU-DCPS Tentative Agreement
I received some comments on my last entry, I emailed my response to my colleagues (several lines edited):Hello everyone,Buena lunes! (attempting to learn Spanish *smile*)I've been getting good responses from the NBCTs about my previous entry on the ' (read)
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Roopinder Tara Receives CAD Society Community Award
And you are all saying 'who'? I met Tara when he was the editor of Cadence magazine, one of the then two key CAD publications. He had me write a pretty important article, 'The World Wide Web and the AutoCAD User,' in 1997. In 2000 I joined his compa (read)
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In which I give a big middle finger to Associated Bank
Ok, check this out. I’m trying to make an online purchase today with my bank card. It’s one of those ATM/Master Card deals that you get with just about any checking account. I make the purchase and forget about it. Until I get an emai (read)
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Success for Barry pupils in UDO Welsh Inter High Schools Street Dance Compe
DANCERS from three secondary schools in Barry competed at the St David's Hall, Cardiff on March 21, in the UDO Welsh Inter High Schools Street Dance Competition, which was supported by the Sports Council of Wales, along with 50 other secondary school (read)
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Students put on route to independence
A BUS company has teamed up with a Barnardo's special school in Ripon to help prepare its students for adult life. Transdev Harrogate & District is assisting Spring Hill School with projects designed to show its pupils how to use buses and gain (read)
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39 languages spoken in one British school
A British school is finding it difficult to cope with 39 different languages spoken by its pupils and it is now looking for multi-lingual volunteers, a media report said Tuesday. Endeavour High School in Hull has seen a significant rise in pupils who (read)
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Students boost work chances
PEOPLE from black and minority ethnic communities have completed a course aimed at increasing their employability and education opportunities.Certificates were recently issued to 26 students who passed the scheme, led by Skillnet Edinburgh and Core (read)
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Reason Writers Live!: Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Online Education at Brooki
If you're in the D.C. area and you're interested in online education and/or Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward, head over the the Brookings Institution today to see a panel entitled ' How Virtual Education Can Save American Schools .' The focus of th (read)
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Former ABCTE CEO Joins American College of Education as Vice President of D
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New York City gets lifelike facades
Last year we told you about a variety of cities that got detailed facades, after Google used their StreetView imagery and mapped it onto the sides of the buildings. Now they've added the detailed facades to New York City and they look great!
They (read)
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List of Best Business Schools in the US
In the United States, private universities hold most of the top spots in rankings of business schools. However, several state schools have programs that can compete with even the best of the private universities. Although only one public school has a (read)
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Students predicting major quakes
Teenagers are helping lead the way in earthquake studies. Students at John Cleveland College, in Hinckley, have been predicting devastating quakes, such as the recent ones in Chile and Turkey, since having a seismometer installed in 2007. Now their w (read)
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Merchant Taylor's teacher denies sex with pupil at Liverpool Crown Court
A female teacher at a top private school plied pupils with booze before making love to a 16-year-old boy, a court heard today (MON). Classics teacher Hannah McIntyre, 25, admits buying cider for three boys who visited her home but denies having sex w (read)
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I hope this was ironic...
'We need another Ronald Reagan to kick Qaddafi back in his place. That the world's powers cower before a deranged tin-pot dictator is absurd and shows the madness of our age.'Daniel @ What's wrong with these people? (read)
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Sellers on Universal Human Rights in U.S. Law
Mortimer Newlin Stead Sellers (University of Baltimore - School of Law) has posted Universal Human Rights in the Law of the United States (American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 58, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article discusses... (read)
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Marcus on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Legal Realism, and Law Refo
David Marcus (University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law) has posted The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Legal Realism as a Jurisprudence of Law Reform (Georgia Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 433, 2010) on SSRN. Here... (read)
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Happy National Library Week
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A comparative analysis of factors associated with academic outcomes am
by Craig, Samuel, Ph.D., Wayne State University, 2009, 102 pages; AAT 3350299Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)
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Comparison of fifth-grade students' mathematics achievement as evidenc
by Williams, Marcia Wright, Ed.D., Liberty University, 2009, 153 pages; AAT 3350202Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)
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Proof that a little person can have a big life
Hollywood mourns Munchkin actor
Actor Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard Of Oz, is best known for the following line:
As coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. And she's not only merely dead. She's really most si (read)
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Another Julia Sugarbaker moment
that Brandon put on his blog, but this is for YKWIA, who will understand why: (read)
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Jeb Bush hurt education in Florida? Hardly
We had a story on Sunday implying that Jeb Bush may be to blame for a gap between the number of minorities graduating high school versus the number entering universities. It seems the Evil One ended the state's affirmative action program in 1999. The (read)
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Is it Research Paper Time? Contact Your Librarian
A new post on the Washington Post’s Campus Overload blog by Jenna Johnson recommends making friends with a librarian when you’re working on a paper. She states that you should contact a librarian because:
“They can help you get (read)
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Easy Grasshopper Pie
For my first child's first birthday, I made apple-orange bread with whole wheat flour and probably raw sugar or honey, and I served it with frozen yogurt, and that was the most sugar that child had in her whole life until after she was two. That chi (read)
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True Cost of Public Schools, Part I
A recent study on how public schools underreport their costs was especially interesting to me because of an online discussion I got into ages ago with some public school teachers who insisted that there were 'hidden costs' to homeschooling that we ho (read)
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Oregon Schools Considering Four Day Week
Noticeably absent from this article any mention of the children or their parents and whether this will benefit them. It's a cost-cutting measure. In order to meet state requirements, the schools would lengthen the four days of the week th (read)
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Job Hunt Headquarters
It's been said that teaching is a recession-proof profession. In fact, last year the New York Times alarmingly reported that a nation-wide teacher shortage could be looming, due to massive turnover and retirements.
So why not make the most of this (read)
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SUNY Plan Focuses on Revitalizing the State
A five-year strategy unveiled by the chancellor of the State University of New York declares its goal of improving the economy and the quality of life for all residents. (read)
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Word of the Day | austere
This word has appeared in 175 Times articles over the past year. (read)
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Gove's plans send out an anti-education message
Michael Gove, the shadow education secretary, is a journalist for the Times newspaper. He has written four books (now out of print), including a supremely toadying biography of Michael Portillo, and appears regularly on Newsnight Review, displaying, (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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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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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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gray is liiga (revisited)
liiga = gray (Lhaesine pronunciation = LIGH-guh) (adjective) (color) (some things Google found for 'liiga': a very common term; means 'gang, league' in Finnish; an unusual feminine first name, notably of Latvian artist Liiga Smilshkalne; means 'too' (read)
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Quietly, school librarians still make impact
April is National School Librarians Month, and today is National Library Workers Day, bad timing for the American Association of School Administrators to report that 19 percent of school districts surveyed expect to cut librarians' jobs next year. Cu (read)
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Bots High: Smart Kids Building Combat Robots
Joey Daoud has spent the past year producing and directing the Bots High film so as to document high school robotics teams who are involved (obsessed) with building combat robots for the 2010 National BotsIQ Championship. (read)
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Ex-Brown student sues over outster from campus
providence, r.i. -- william mccormick iii and his parents say university administrators gave him a one-way ticket home to wisconsin after he was accused of rape in the fall of 2006. mccormick alleges the school never told the police about the rape (read)
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BULLYING: More than just school yard banter - Meagan Arnold, Lock Haven Uni
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Pupil suspended for dealing mephedrone'
A FIFTH-year pupil has been suspended from school after allegedly dealing in the legal drug mephedrone. Craig Scriven is claimed to have taken the drug, known as miaow miaow, into Portlethen Academy in Aberdeenshire before the Easter break. A new law (read)
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Bullies learn at early age
Children as young as three can be victims of bullying, according to a child development expert. Canadian professor Michel Boivin told a bullying conference in Melbourne that children's experience of 'peer victimisation' started in daycare and kinderg (read)