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Students Will Love The BBC's "Your Life On Earth" Interactive! | Larry Ferlaz... - 24 views

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    This interactive lifetime on Earth website asks for your birthdate, gender, height and measurement of preference then generates how the world has changed over your lifetime.

Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views

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Preloaded City Navigator NT North America (U.S.andCanada),1 year limited warranty - 0 views

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    Free lifetime map and traffic updates for the most up-to-date maps, POIs, and navigation info, along with constantly updated traffic information
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    Free lifetime map and traffic updates for the most up-to-date maps
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DEN Blog Network » Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Trip Application Now Open! - 0 views

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    A virtual drum roll please… We are thrilled to officially open the application process for the Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Program. Join us as we discover more of our incredible planet earth together with adventure trips to Australia, South Africa, and China. In order to participate in this pilot trip, you must be a STAR Discovery Educator. Not only are you able to take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity, each STAR selected will be able to choose four of their students to join them on the adventure! This is at no cost to you or your students! So with no further ado… here's the official wording and post importantly the link to apply.
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Best Interview Tips for Every Job Seeker - 1 views

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    Working and studying overseas or abroad is like a dream come true. Almost every individual fantasize to work in foreign countries at least once in a lifetime. But, what makes most of them anxious is the interview. Yes, interview fright them all.
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The (Enormous) Economic Returns to a Good Teacher : Education Next - 15 views

  • It has now become conventional wisdom that teachers are the most important ingredient in an effective school. 
  • A good teacher gets above average achievement out of her students.
  • A teacher at the 85th percentile can, in comparison to an average teacher, raise the present value of each student’s lifetime earnings by over $20,000–implying that such a teacher with a class of 20 students generates over $400,000 in economic benefits, compared to an average teacher, for each year that she gets such achievement gains.
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  • a teacher at the 15th percentile subtracts $400,000 in value from her class of 20 students.
  • By changing a teacher’s profession into a perilous affair and a rat race, with many pink slips being handed out each year, by sewing distrust among colleagues, by exposing teachers to unfair high-stakes evaluations, Mr. Hanushek turns the teaching profession into a highly unattractive prospect for the intelligent, ambitious students that American education so desperately needs.
  • And that is bad news for *all* US students, not just for the ’5 to 8 percent’ about whom the magical ‘tests’ revelates that they are ‘ineffectively taught’.
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