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'Mr. President, public education in the U.S. is on the wrong track' - 1 views

By Valerie Strauss This is the text of an open letter written to President Obama by Mary Broderick, president of the Arlington, Va.,-based National Schools Boards Association, a not-for-profit or...

educarion Public reform innovation and creativity testing no child left behind

started by Bonnie Sutton on 24 Apr 12 no follow-up yet

Digital Learning Day - 1 views

On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, thirty-seven states, 10,000 teachers, and more than 1.5 million students will participate in the first-ever national Digital Learning Day, a national awareness campa...

National event digital learning day awareness campaign

started by Bonnie Sutton on 30 Jan 12 no follow-up yet

Duncan's equity commission and the 'rising tide' of avarice, hostility, testing - 3 views

I agree ~ and the lessons and sharp reminders in the article are not just for K-12

equity duncan commission John Merrow testing education and excellence

started by Bonnie Sutton on 25 Feb 12 2 follow-ups, last by Vanessa Vaile on 26 Feb 12

Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda - 1 views

Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/teach-for-america-liberal-mission-helps-conservative-agenda/2011/12/25/gIQApoVZHP...

Teach for America Liberal mission Education reform Andrew Hartman unionized teachers DC Schools wendy Kopp Michelle Rhee

started by Bonnie Sutton on 27 Dec 11 no follow-up yet

SC11 June Newsletter - 1 views

http://sc11.supercomputing.org/ Follow SC11: SC11 will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together scientists, engineers, researchers, educa...

SC11 Tutorials Broader engagement student volunteers education HOC Paralle computing communities

started by Bonnie Sutton on 22 Jun 11 no follow-up yet

Digital Literacy is the Bedrock for Lifelong Learning - 2 views

BY VANESSA VEGA 10/25/11 People often ascribe technological devices with magical properties, as though the inert objects in and of themselves can bestow us with the capacity to be "better, faster, ...

digital literacy internet access resources for the divide technology

started by Bonnie Sutton on 04 Nov 11 no follow-up yet

A Perfect Storm Hits Public Schools - 1 views

By Anthony Cody on February 22, 2012 11:35 AM http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/02/a_perfect_storm_hits_public_sc.html Guest post by Steven Sellers Lapham. Note: Steven Sel...

Department of Duncan ESEA NCLB education reform standardized tests teacher evaluation

started by Bonnie Sutton on 23 Feb 12 no follow-up yet

Education and the income gap: Darling-Hammond - 1 views

Education and the income gap: Darling-Hammond http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/education-and-the-income-gap-darling-hammond/2012/04/26/gIQAHn0LkT_blog.html By Valerie Strau...

answer sheet inequality :; Education the income gap: Darling-Hammond

started by Bonnie Sutton on 27 Apr 12 no follow-up yet

The War on Teachers, - 1 views

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-war-on-teachers-why-the-public-is-watching-it-happen/2012/03/11/gIQAD3XH6R_blog.html The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it hap...

attack on the teaching force transforming reality of learning landscape

started by Bonnie Sutton on 12 Mar 12 no follow-up yet

The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it happen - 0 views

By Valerie Strauss This was written by Mark Naison, professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University in New York and chair of the department of African and African-American S...

teachers war community not supporting attacks on the teaching force

started by Bonnie Sutton on 12 Mar 12 no follow-up yet

25 (Free) 3D Modeling Applications You Should Not Miss - 1 views

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/25-free-3d-modelling-applications-you-should-not-miss/ Visuals at the web site. Technically, 3 Dimensions refers to objects that are constructed on three plans (X, Y a...

3-d modeling applications 3d application free model open source three dimention Tools

started by Bonnie Sutton on 16 Mar 12 no follow-up yet

Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report - 1 views

Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report: The dissents By Valerie Strauss Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report The most interesting part of the new Condoleezza...

Schools threaten national Security report

started by Bonnie Sutton on 22 Mar 12 no follow-up yet

Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago - 1 views

Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/black-latino-students-per_n_1224790.html Teresa Wiltz First Posted: 01/23/2012 4:44 pm U...

black latino native american low level of achievement

started by Bonnie Sutton on 24 Jan 12 no follow-up yet

The Value of Teachers - 1 views

The Value of Teachers By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: January 11, 2012 Suppose your child is about to enter the fourth grade and has been assigned to an excellent teacher. Then the teac...

started by Bonnie Sutton on 12 Jan 12 no follow-up yet

Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms? - 2 views

****************************** From The Los Angeles Times, Saturday, February 4, 2012. See http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120205,0,639053.column .. Our appreciation to Monty Neil, ...

Julius Genachowski digital playbook learning ecosystems textbooks

started by Bonnie Sutton on 07 Feb 12 no follow-up yet

Riding the Curve of Technology - 2 views

I have been traveling to various groups, trying to get some synchronicity in their talking points.. and I hope that others will join me to help change the outreach to the unwashed, uninterested and...

change in educatioin ideas ways of thinking

started by Bonnie Sutton on 16 Jul 12 2 follow-ups, last by Bonnie Sutton on 18 Jul 12

Dracula, Chapter 10 - 0 views

www.gutenberg.org/...345-h.htm

Dracula Coursera fantasysf Unit3

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"The good husbandman tell you so then because he knows, but not till then
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When I described Lucy's symptoms, the same as before, but infinitely more marked, he looked very grave, but said nothing.
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She was ghastly, chalkily pale.
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Her breathing was painful to see or hear.
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I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her."
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She wants blood, and blood she must have or die
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transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins
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of blood so pure
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the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle
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deep hiss of indrawn breath
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What do you make of that mark on her throat?"
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There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn looking, as if by some trituration. It at once occurred to me that that this wound, or whatever it was, might be the means of that manifest loss of blood.
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The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally.
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looked at me gratefully whenever I caught her eye
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You do not want to sleep?"
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"Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for."
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"Ah, not if you were like me, if sleep was to you a presage of horror!"
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All this weakness comes to me in sleep,
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"But, my dear girl, you may sleep tonight. I am here watching you, and I can promise that nothing will happen." "Ah, I can trust you!" she said.
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All night long I watched by her. She never stirred, but slept on and on in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep.
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It was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.
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I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything.
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Somehow Arthur feels very, very close to me.
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DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 10 September.--I was conscious of the Professor's hand on my head, and started awake all in a second. That is one of the things that we learn in an asylum, at any rate.
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There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.
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the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep.
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how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign any where to show for it
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"Now you go home, and eat much and drink enough. Make yourself strong. I stay here tonight, and I shall sit up with little miss myself.
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In the hall two of the maids came to me, and asked if they or either of them might not sit up with Miss Lucy.
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For over and over again have I seen similar instances of woman's kindness.
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waiting for sleep. It is coming.
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11 September.--This afternoon I went over to Hillingham. Found Van Helsing in excellent spirits, and Lucy much better.
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"No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in what I do, and I warn you that you do not thwart me.
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  more confinement of information ~ characters are also always saying don't tell, don't say anything about. etc. Also the effect of Victorian reticence it to sequester knowledge and information
  
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you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit."
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Tonight I can sleep in peace, and sleep I want,
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remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror
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A test for politicians on education (with cheat sheet) - 1 views

By Valerie Strauss Here are questions that education historian Diane Ravitch posed to politicans who make education policy. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of nu...

schools test scores vouchers research on charter international

started by Bonnie Sutton on 26 Feb 12 no follow-up yet

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The Storytelling Project Model: A Theoretical Framework for Critical Examination of Rac... - 2 views

The Storytelling Project Model: A Theoretical Framework for Critical Examination of Racism Through the Arts http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15787 by Lee Anne Bell & Rosemarie...

Story telling project model race and racism multiracial community comfort zone color blindness

started by Bonnie Sutton on 08 Jun 12 no follow-up yet

Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age - 1 views

Submitted: June 9, 2011 - 3:29pm Originally published: June 9, 2011 Last updated: June 9, 2011 - 3:35pm Source: Federal Communications Commission Author: press release Location: Federal Communicati...

Information needs of community broadband enabled innovation citizen Journalism

started by Bonnie Sutton on 10 Jun 11 no follow-up yet

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