Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Most people learn best when they don’t feel like they are learning. I think this occurs because you can absorb the most when your mind is relaxed and when you are having fun with something, you are more open and willing to learn.
So why not get in some learning time ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
One week after 18-year-old Alonzo Smith, a football player at Liberty high, died from MRSA, another student has been infected.
Officials say that the student is responding well to treatment and that it is likely they will make a full recovery, since the infection was spotted quickly and treatment began early.
School ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Starting this week, there will be a recurring “school of the week” featured here at SchoolFinder. This school will be selected based on test scores, AP involvement, health and nutrition programs, extracurricular activities, elective options and more.
So, without further ado, this week’s school of the week is Union County Magnet ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Students are very clever and have excellent imaginations. I would say that at least once in every student’s lifetime, they fail to turn in a homework assignment.
It happened to me once and was enough to keep from missing an assignment again. It was a significant assignment that had completely slipped ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
There are some places where it is often easy to get the impression that teachers are the most lazy, money grubbing, good for nothing, bums. Just read some of the comments at the end of this article. Meanwhile, the other paper in the same county writes positive articles on the ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Economic times are hard and now, more than ever, is the time to be thrifty. As you all know, Halloween is now less than a month away, which means that your kids are going to start asking for a costume.
You might get a bit of scare walking down the aisles ...
Posted in Family, General, Humor, K-12 | 12 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
I get so much information from twitter these days I don't know how I leaned anything before. I started blogging for GlobalScholar a few months ago. To research I started with searches of news sites for education. I got a lot of stories about things that happened at schools. I ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
One issue that is becoming ever more popular and important to parents is the health of their child’s school. It’s no wonder that this is so important, as students spend around 13 hours of their life in school, between pre-K through 12th grade.
So how does your child’s school rank?
Health Magazine ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
In my experience a permissive school today is a school that lets their students keep cell phones in their lockers. Here though we have a school that not only seems to allow their students to have cell phones on their person they are allowing them to use them in the ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Yes, you read that correctly – 50 students were suspended from Kentridge High School after posting a video of a student’s fight on YouTube.
The video displays two girls involving in a punching match with a large group of students standing around watching. The video was captured by a student’s cell ...
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