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Mary Worrell

Learning Shouldn't Be Dictated by the School Calendar - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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shared by Mary Worrell on 31 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 31 Aug 09
     
    What do you all think of this? Is the calendar to blame for many of our problems? Is year-round school the answer?
Mark Smith

What do 'right-to-work' laws do to a state's economy? - 5 views

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shared by Mark Smith on 10 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Similarly, one 1998 study by Thomas J. Holmes found that companies in heavily unionized states often relocated just across state borders to right-to-work states. But is that due to the right-to-work laws or other policies?
meenoo rami

The Answer Sheet - Vocabulary twist: Teaching words OUT of context - 16 views

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shared by meenoo rami on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • meenoo rami on 28 May 10
     
    new twist on teaching vocab, wonder if it works
Donalyn Miller

Books at home push kids toward more schooling - 5 views

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shared by Donalyn Miller on 30 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Donalyn Miller on 30 Jul 10
     
    Powerful study about the importance of books in the home.
Dana Huff

Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 7 views

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shared by Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10
     
    The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.
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