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Want to see and hear some terrific student art? This is a highlights video I put together of some of the winning entries in the Northern Virginia District PTA Reflections K-12 arts competition. The entries you'll see are some of the winners from the Visual Arts and Photography categories, set to the music composition that won the Award for ( Read more... )

It seems that April 24 is a good day for writer birthdays! It's interesting how for some date I can find few really top-notch writers and for others, I easily turn up a long list. Here is today's excellent lineup.


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Some smart, committed high school students spoke today at the NFPW conference's student journalism awards luncheon. One boy, now a college freshman, wrote an award-winning column about a classmate, a student athlete with testicular cancer who refused to give up -- and agreed to go public in order to help others. A girl who is now a junior wrote an ( Read more... )