Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Autism is one of those disorders that most people know about, but nobody really knows about. In general Autism is a disorder of varying magnitude that makes it difficult for the person to function in normal everyday society. I know that definition could be just about anything or anyone. And ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
GlobalScholar is proud to announce the launch of their newest online resource for parents: Preschool Finder!
Preschool Finder offers similar search features as SchoolFinder and CollegeFinder and the same abilities to browse and compare schools. Preschools are organized by neighborhood, rather than by the state alone, making your search for the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Nowadays it seems that everyone has some kind of online networking profile. Facebook alone has 80 million active users, many of whom use the site to post pictures and stay in touch with friends. Networking sites can be an excellent tool for organizing events and sending messages to large groups ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
In my writings about improving teacher quality I've mentioned that the easy “fix” for education is to start with raising starting teachers pay and making it easier to fire teachers (within reason of course). The next easy step is to improve the quality of our educators.
I know I said the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
It has been a busy week for me. I have been hired full time at GlobalScholar, before this I was a consultant. The day before my actual hire date I flew to HQ in Seattle to fill out paperwork and start learning about the GlobalScholar systems that I am not ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
First they pay students for good behavior and now they are giving away cars for attending class?
Ashley Martinez from Eberhart Elementary won a 2008 Dodge Caliber on Monday for perfect attendance for three straight months. She was among the top 150 of 190,000 students who qualified and had their names ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Here is a list I put together of 10 things I wish I knew when I was in high school. I think it's pretty good advice and I would advise all graduating 8th graders to keep these things in mind for the next four years.
1. Math is important
I did not ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Larkin High School in district U-46 Elgin Illinois. You may remember this district as I wrote a story about the new superintendent a short while ago. It looks like the new superintendent already has his first big decision to make.
Last year vocal choral director, Damon Carlson, resigned from the ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The mayor of Gloucester, Carolyn Kirk has denied that a pregnancy pact between 17 girls at Gloucester High School ever occurred. She stated that there was no evidence of any such “pact” and that the pregnancies were linked to a lack of health education funding. She even stated that the ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Apparently, if you want to be a member of the Sebastian River High School baseball team you have to put up with some seriously out of line, perverted hazing. A report was just released detailing an investigation of sexual assault as part of the initiation onto the school’s baseball team.
A ...
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