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The other day in my supplemental blog, I linked to a Christian Science profile of Oprah's South African school for girls, which noted studies that found when women are educated: "its overall per capita income increases and its fertility rate drops". While "other studies show that improved female education is linked to higher crop yields, lower HIV ( Read more... )

I was reading about some changes planned for a shopping center near my mother's, when I noticed the following banner. The actual ad was flash, but this is where it ended and this is the part that raised a question, so I sized a copy down for it to fit.


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First, the setup;
For some reason, the topic of YouTube has been big over the past week on a few of the blogs that I read and these discussions have covered a variety of subjects. Among them was a suggestion that television news make their clips more YouTube-friendly. This suggestion prompted a variety of comments, as you might imagine, but among ( Read more... )

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I only became aware of this young lady's struggle on Saturday, most of the coverage has been in a newspaper which I don't ordinarily read and she lives in a place that I mostly know from the highway. After reading a brief report, I started looking for everything that I could find in hopes of telling part of her story here, as a tribute.
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Republican Bill Crozier is running for Oklahoma's State Superintendent of Schools and among his proposals is that the state should put thick textbooks under every student's desk, so they could be used as shields against gunfire. To demonstrate his idea and as a type of experimentation, him and a couple of buddies set up in a field, fired upon an ( Read more... )

The blogosphere is starting to get up in arms about a non-issue. It seems that Rep. Micheal G. Fitzpatrick (R-PA) has drafted a bill attempting to amend the "Communications Act" with a requirement that schools and libraries limit access to "Commercial Social Networking Websites" to only adults and for purely educational sessions.

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I'm assuming it wasn't someone known, who mailed me a petition link in support of Dr Frank Ellis, a suspended professor at the University of Leeds. Instead, I'm guessing that my @livejournal was farmed from a search on the "education" tag or from one of the blog catalogs. I did not click your link as a precautionary measure, but because you felt ( Read more... )

The last thing that I'd like to do is start an insult game, we all know the truth and the politically correct thing to say. There are a couple of teachers on my friendslist and others headed in that direction. I'm sure everybody that I e-know is terrific, but the odds and my experience is that a huge percentage of those in the education field aren' ( Read more... )