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Sonam Shahani

Lil’ Longhorns

9.7.10 - Sonam Shahani - Back to school! After a fun and busy summer I was ready to be a student teacher again. I attended my first class at UT, Methods of Reading and Language Arts, and waited anxiously for my semester placement. Each of us would switch schools this semester, meaning that I would no longer be at Metz Elementary. Where then, would I be placed?

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California charter schools grow in popularity

9.9.10 - Paul Preston sat in a conference room last Tuesday afternoon talking to a couple considering moving their son from River City High School to the California College, Career & Technical Education Center in West Sacramento. ...

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Learning-Disabled Enrollment Dips After

9.9.10 - Experts say the decline may be driving overall decreases in numbers of special education students. ...

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Dallas magnet school parents upset over proposal to let in 'students of promise'

9.9.10 - Parents who fear that Dallas ISD will weaken magnet school admission criteria and possibly move to a lottery system plan to attend today's school board meeting. Trustee Edwin Flores, who chairs the board's policy briefings, said he knew of no lottery proposal. He said a proposed change would reserve 10 percent of slots for students who don't otherwise meet admission criteria. ...

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EducationNewsToday

Some school districts already spending federal aid

9.9.10 - Some Utah school districts are heeding legislative leaders’ advice to hold off on spending $101 million in federal cash for schools until lawmakers formally approve and decide how to use it. Others, however, are already

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EdNewsToday

Rise of stay-at-home university student: Funding crisis creates two-tier higher education system

9.9.10 - University bosses warn that while wealthy undergraduates will attend well-funded traditional institutions, other students will have to pursue part-time or online courses.

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EdReports

Edu Assoc Articles / Education Organizations / Think Tanks

Sina English and American Dictionaries — A New Partnership

9.7.10 - Robert Oliphant - Call it Sina “Chinese” English or Standard Worldwide American Pronunciation English (SWAPE) — either way our new international language owes its current shape to American dictionaries.

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Edu Assoc Articles

Boards of Education That Approve “Inquiry-Based” Standards for ‎K-12 Students Need To Do Inquiry-Based Thinking Themselves

9.9.10 - Sandra Stotsky - State boards of education are generally viewed as dull or weak citizen boards when compared with local school boards–which tend to be much livelier and far more involved with educational issues (often to the chagrin of local school administrators).

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Education Organizations

An Interview with Jason Paulk: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

9.3.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Dr. Jason Paulk is Director of Choral Activities in the College of Fine Arts at Eastern New Mexico University. In this interview he responds to questions about an upcoming presentation and the logistics and preparation for it.

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Think Tanks

Stretching the School Dollar

9.9.10 - Frederick Hess - I know, I know. I’m always kvetching that schools need to do more with less. When folks press me for specific details or suggestions, they want something more than broad discussions of staffing levels or analogies from other sectors. They want concrete ideas. Stretching the School Dollar represents the best efforts of coeditor Eric Osberg and myself to craft a book packed with practical ideas for cutting school spending, in both the short- and long-term.

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Commentaries

Insights on Education / Opinions on Education / Book Reviews

Literacy and the Empowerment of Women: A Message for International Literacy Day, September 8, 2010

9.8.10 - Tom Sticht - September 8, 2010 is International Literacy Day. This year the theme for celebrating is Literacy and the Empowerment of Women. Some thirty years ago, on September 8, 1979, I entered a large auditorium at UNESCO House in Paris as a new member of the international jury for the awarding of UNESCO’s International Literacy Prizes.

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Book Reviews

The State of the Art of Math Education: Let's Move On

9.9.10 - Barry Garelick - I recently took a math teaching methods class in education school--a remarkable class for its embrace of every educational fad I detest. One book we had to read in the class was "Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design" by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe.

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Insights on Education

Teaching Greatness: Alain L. Locke Elementary School, Part 1

9.9.10 - Harry & Rosemary Wong - There is a man who lives on the top floor of an apartment building on 115th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, New York City. Every morning, he says, he is awakened by the sound of the students four blocks away at Alain L. Locke Elementary School as they shout:

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Opinions on Education

NJ Gov Christie Delivers Brilliant Laceration of Teacher’s Union

9.9.10 - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie confronted by a school teacher at a town hall meeting. What follows is a detailed, specific and reasonable explanation of everything that is wrong with public employee unions and their hateful, destructive tactics.

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Higher Education

Campus Views / Community Colleges

Here come the girls: Why the new generation of female graduates has it better than ever

9.9.10 - Youth, eh. Who'd have it? Graduate unemployment, up 25 per cent. One million young people, stuck out of work. 600,000 public-sector jobs headed... well, not to the private sector, that's for sure: they've already warned that they won't be picking up the pieces.

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Campus Views

Free Speech on Campus, 2010 Obama Edition

9.9.10 - Jake Boot - It begins… School officials at Palm Beach State College kicked members of the Young America’s Foundation off campus after they saw anti-Obama literature at their table.

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Community Colleges

Community colleges try innovative ways to improve retention, completion and transfer rates

9.8.10 - Casey Selix and Liz Willen - This is the time of year Inver Hills Community College Vice President Barbara Read stands in the door of the admissions office and greets new students with a four-word question: “What is your goal?” The question goes to the heart of the Minnesota college’s five-year-old “Finish What You Start” effort to improve retention, completion and [...]

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Global

Number of UK graduates plummeting

9.9.10 - The UK has lost its status as one of the world leaders in producing graduates, according to a league table published yesterday.

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Blogs

Hate Speech and Union Busters

9.7.10 - Ron Isaac - "Hate Speech" an elusive yet glaring concept that legal codes have difficulty pinning down, is, according to Word IQ, "intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against someone based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability."

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Earth

Opinions on the Environment

The War Against Mountaintop Mining Heats Up

9.9.10 WASHINGTON -- As Congress returns from its August recess, lobbying groups opposed to mountain top coal mining are digging in to promote two bills that would put an end to that practice.

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Opinions on the Environment

Spoiled system: Eating healthier comes with a price for families

9.5.10 - As Revisha Martinez pondered the cost of peaches and watermelon at her local King Soopers recently, she became the last stop in a complicated food-production system that critics believe has turned healthy eating into expensive eating.

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Breaking News

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CASTRO: Cuban model doesn't work!

HAVANA – Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.

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Africa

South Africa: Civil servants strike

9.5.10 - Government employees close schools, hospitals and challenge President Jacob Zuma and ANC

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Are donated clothes harming Africa's economy?

Americas

U.S. Student Became Mexican Drug Kingpin

9.9.10 - LAREDO, Tex. — The other children in his middle-class suburb teased him by calling him Barbie because of his looks, which reminded them of a Ken doll. The name stuck, and three decades later it would become associated with sadistic gangland slayings.

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Asia

China to vaccinate 100 M children against measles

9.2.10 - Foreigners living in China will be covered by a nationwide measles immunization campaign, which targets children mainly between 8 months and 4 years of age, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.

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In defense of Islam, vigilante justice in Indonesia

Europe

A quarter of junior doctors drop out of NHS training as EU ruling limits time spent on wards

9.6.10 - The ruling limits the amount of time junior doctors spend on wards during the day but has led to almost a quarter dropping out of NHS training after two years

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Health

Death toll of superbug patients at 27

9.5.10 - Teikyo University Hospital says that since late last year 27 out of 46 patients infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium have died, including nine whose deaths are possibly attributable to the superbug that the hospital did not report until now.

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Middle East

Iran woman's stoning suspended after global outcry

9.9.10 -TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.

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News

Developer: I would unload mosque site if price is right

9.9.10 - One of the key moneymen behind the proposed Ground Zero Islamic center said he'd abandon the controversial project and sell the site - if a buyer met his asking price.

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Washington

Gov't Checkup: Health Care Costs Rise Under Obama Overhaul

9.9.10 - According to a government report, the nation's health care tab will go up — not down — as a result of Obama's sweeping overhaul, arming critics who say the president was wrong to insist it would cut costs

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Business

Opinions on the Economy

Now it's predictive search: Google Doodle mystery explained as new 'instant' results unveiled (... we should have seen that coming)

Goggle has today announced new 'Instant' search results, introduced for users around the world. Google searches will now predict what users are looking for from the very first letter they type.

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Opinions on the Economy

Use Of Gov't Spending As Stimulus Throws Sand In Gears Of Growth

9.9.10 - JERRY L. JORDAN - Massive government borrowing to finance expanded budgets is worse than silly; it is dangerous to our economic health. And polls show that most of the public doesn't believe that borrowing or taxing away money from the private sector to be spent on employing people in the public sector makes us more prosperous. At best, it delays the adjustment of the public sector to new economic realities.

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Political

Political Opinions / Society / Terrorism / Immigration / Media / Big Brother / Political Correct / Political Releases

Obama Has Added More to National Debt Than Washington Thru Reagan -- COMBINED

9.9.10 - In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.

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Big Brother

Joe Joins The Food Police

8.31.10 - On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough declares that he favors forcing all restaurants to put calorie counts on their menus.

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Immigration

Texas backs Ariz. immigration law in legal brief

9.5.10 - A "friend of the court" brief filed with a San Francisco-based appeals court argues that a federal judge was wrong to block implementation of key provisions of the law.

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Media

Lionizing the Jackals

9.6.10 - We have reached the point where Islamic supremacists and Muslim Brotherhood proxies are virtually dictating their propaganda and fallacious narrative to big media and scribes, who take it down word for word, lie for lie, and report it as fact. Unindicted co-conspirator, Hamas-linked, Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR is the go-to guy for all things Islam.

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Political Correct

Shift To Right Marks Obama's Second Phase

9.9.10 - DAVID S. BRODER - Nonetheless, with Emanuel likely to lead the procession of postelection exits from the White House, Obama will have the freedom he needs to recast the administration for the last half of the term. As he prepares to deal with a more Republican Congress and begin his own race for re-election, the changeover will become more and more important.

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Political Opinions

Cabinet member hits alarm over Obama's colossal debt

9.9.10 - 'We are losing the ability to chart our own destiny' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. military joint command are now both on record that rising levels of U.S. national debt pose a national security threat.

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Political Releases

Society

'Shameless' generation grows as four million now live in households where no one works

A fifth of Britons live in households where nobody works, according to official figures. They reveal that almost four million households contain no one who has a job – meaning more than seven million under-65s live without any experience of employment.

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Terrorism

Ground Zero Supremacist Imam Rauf Threatens America:

9.9.10 - "anger will explode in the Muslim world," This crisis ..."could become something very dangerous indeed" "Worse than Danish Cartoon Jihad," GZM is a "national security issue"

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Reviews - Movies - Music - Games

Something ‘Right’ This Way Comes… RightNetwork Launches Today

9.9.10 - Chris Burgard - Awhile back my wife and I were thinking about selling our California ranch and moving to Texas. We had made a film about the border, called… Border. Texans and the rest of America seemed to dig the film. Hollywood? Not so much.

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