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To accommodate differences, Vocabulary and SpellingCity had added several lists of British spelling words and their corresponding US words.

Last month, The American Cooperative School of Tunis (http://www.acst.net/) lost their entire elementary library in an attack on their school. If you would like to donate to help them build their collection, please visit this page: http://www.titlewish.com/103198. If you would like to learn more about what happened, see this article: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/09/sudan-protesters-attack-german-and-british-embassies/56859/

"Academy-award-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam is a working member of the British House of Lords, where his policy focus is on improving education standards."

From the Brisbane festival - idea of a British Entrepreneur, a fantastic forum for information exchange - follow through the refinement of a problem - information process based- then using crowd sourcing, try to suggest a way forward.  Cases posted regularly

Interesting statistics on devices used for reading ebooks by age and on the buying of ebooks in last 6 months, within sex and age.

This past weekend I flew to Vietnam to spend two days with the Senior Management Team (SMT) of the British International School of Vietnam (BISVietnam). A two day retreat that focused on a future with technology and a 1:1 program. There are so many different ways to go 1:1 and in my opinion no one right way to do it.

Beautiful and amazing juxtaposition of then and now. "Using Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony as a sort of sonic mortar, Smith bricks the present day onto the British Film Institute's recent restoration of Parkinson and Miller's work. Actually, it's more of a keyhole effect, through which viewers can peep into the past." Beginning at 1:03 "The Strand, by the way, is as cosmopolitan a street as any we have seen, for here are housed our Colonial Brethren..." (Dominion of New Zealand building and Australia House).