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Put this on your info page!
This is cool! Click on the link at the bottom to add it to your own info page.
Sweet. (I already click the Literacy Site every day...)
Save The World - One Click At A Time!
On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day!
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This is so messed up
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.olesker08mar08,1,76004.column?coll=bal-local-columnists
A tale of customer service, justice and currency as funny as a $2 bill
Michael Olesker
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My living will
(Thanks, mom!)
My Living Will
I, Kari Bluff, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.
Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of peckerwood, ethically challenged, politicians who couldn't pass ninth/tenth-grade biology if their lives depended on it.
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Survey: Most young adults have positive view of collegeWASHINGTON (AP) -- Young adults value college, but many haven't enrolled because of money woes, poor preparation, low expectations at home or sheer laziness, a survey finds. The result is that seven in 10 young workers without college degrees say they are in their jobs by chance, not by choice ( Read more... ) -
Good article on NCLB
http://nochildleft.com/2004/oct04absurd.html
THE SEVEN DEADLY ABSURDITIES OF NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
By Gerald W. Bracey
Gerald W. Bracey is an associate professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia and an Associate of the High/Scope Educational Research ( Read more... ) -
This is great!
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-03-04-04-epr.htm
The Irascible Professor SM
Irreverent Commentary on the State of Education in America Today
by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro
"Limited expectations yield only limited results."... ....Susan Laurson Willig.
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FWIW
If I ever get to Terry Schiavo's point, please just unplug me. -
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Do teachers have it easy?The lives of educators can be rewarding or frustrating. But are they paid what they're worth ( Read more... )