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NPR Morning Edition - College Application Essays - 10 views

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  • Adam Babcock on 29 Aug 10
     
    class: Here are some examples of good college essays / personal statements that NPR published or aired.
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Julie Andrews Celebrates The Sound Of Poetry - 10 views

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    NPR story on Julie Andrew's latest book, co-authored with her daughter
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A Visual Word Puzzle From Radiolab : NPR - 9 views

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  • The0d0re Shatagin on 18 Aug 10
     
    Companion Visual Puzzle to NPR's story on the Origin of Language / Speech
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StoryCorps - 7 views

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    NPR Collection of people recording stories about themselves and others
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It Was The Best Of Sentences ... : NPR - 21 views

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After 50 Years, 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Still Sings America's Song : NPR - 2 views

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    For the high-schoolers reading To Kill a Mockingbird today, America is a very different place than it was when Lee wrote her novel 50 years ago. Lee's story of Scout Finch and her father, Atticus - a small-town Southern lawyer who defends a black man unjustly accused of rape - came out just as the nation was fighting over school desegregation. To Kill a Mockingbird didn't change everyone's mind, but it did open some. And it made an impression on many young people who, like Scout, were trying to get a grip on right and wrong in a world that is not always fair.
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Three-Minute Fiction : NPR - 0 views

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    Excellent site for English teachers who want to incorporate some creative fiction either for reading or writing. Have kids write their own three-minute stories.
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Signing, Singing, Speaking: How Language Evolved : NPR - 5 views

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  • The0d0re Shatagin on 18 Aug 10
     
    Article, Voice, and Transcript on the Origin of Language / Speech - emphasis on sign language and singing
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The Great Textbook Wars - American RadioWorks - 2 views

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  • Leslie Healey on 06 Sep 10
     
    NPR documentary on the first battle in the war over textbooks--70s style. Texas is implementing round two in 2010, and we have not even attempted to deal with the advent of eBooks yet!
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Stressful Decision? Washing Hands Could Help Soothe : NPR - 7 views

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  • Dana Huff on 11 May 10
     
    Shakespeare gets it right again. Washing your hands may help "scrub away the inner turmoil you feel."
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Transcript: Obama's State Of The Union Address : NPR - 4 views

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  • What we can do — what America does better than anyone — is spark the creativity and imagination of our people. We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn't just change our lives. It's how we make a living.
  • This is our generation's Sputnik moment.
  • That's what Americans have done for over two hundred years: reinvented ourselves
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  • asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own.
  • the biggest impact on a child's success comes from the man or woman at the front of the classroom. In South Korea, teachers are known as "nation builders." Here in America, it's time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect.
  • If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child — become a teacher. Your country needs you.
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Things We Say Today And Owe To Shakespeare : The Two-Way : NPR - 11 views

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  • Tom McHale on 18 Sep 11
     
    Two websites that illustrate how Shakespeare has influenced our language.
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR - 5 views

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  • What I've observed in recent years is that many people, in cultural conversations, are far more interested in culling than in surrender. And they want to cull as aggressively as they can.
  • It is the recognition that well-read is not a destination; there is nowhere to get to, and if you assume there is somewhere to get to, you'd have to live a thousand years to even think about getting there, and by the time you got there, there would be a thousand years to catch up on.
  • If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read. But what we've seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can't change that.
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