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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

Stanford Imaging Study Reveals Differences in Brain Function for Children With Math Anx... - 1 views

03/28/2012 12:39 PM EDT Vinod Menon Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time, how brain function differs in people who have math anxiety from those who do...

math anxiety stanford problem solving

started by Bonnie Sutton on 29 Mar 12 no follow-up yet

McGraw Hill to Award $25,000 to Innovative STEM Educators - 0 views

McGraw-Hill Education just launched the STEM Innovative Educator Awards to recognize and reward teachers who are finding innovative ways to reach today's students. The awards, known as the STEMIEs,...

STEMIES Innovative education awards STEM contest

started by Bonnie Sutton on 29 Mar 12 no follow-up yet

How to Rescue Education Reform - 1 views

How to Rescue Education Reform Gracía Lam By FREDERICK M. HESS and LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND Published: December 5, 2011 SHARE THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform ac...

Linda Darling Hammond Reform NCLB federal Goverment education

started by Bonnie Sutton on 06 Dec 11 no follow-up yet

Misunderstanding Race and the Digital Divide - 2 views

Misunderstanding Race and the Digital Divide by Joseph Miller Guest Contributor on December 16, 2011 "One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those w...

started by Bonnie Sutton on 20 Dec 11 no follow-up yet

Ravitch: What Scrooge might think of modern school reform - 4 views

Ravitch: What Scrooge might think of modern school reform By Valerie Strauss This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Debor...

Diane Ravitch Scrooge education and poverty school reform

started by Bonnie Sutton on 15 Dec 11 no follow-up yet

Dear Michelle Rhee: About that teacher evaluation study - 2 views

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/dear-michelle-rhee-about-that-teacher-evaluation-study/2012/01/20/gIQA0iVSGQ_blog.html Dear Michelle Rhee: About that teacher evaluation study...

Teacher evaluation study Michelle Rhee

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

Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools - 0 views

By MATT RICHTEL POST FALLS, Idaho - Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq. He...

High tech push online Idaho tablets Laptops vanguard. teacher back

started by Bonnie Sutton on 04 Jan 12 no follow-up yet

Most Literate and Least Literate cities in the US - 1 views

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-most-least-literate-big-us-cities/2012/01/26/gIQAluv9SQ_blog.html Valerie Strauss Washington, D.C., is the most literate big city in the ...

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

Guest post: An 'Arab Spring' of free online higher education By Daniel de Vise - 2 views

Guest post: An 'Arab Spring' of free online higher education By Daniel de Vise http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/guest-post-an-arab-spring-of-free-online-higher-education/201...

Free Higher Education online college courses Udacity Startup

started by Bonnie Sutton on 03 Feb 12 no follow-up yet

How real school reform should look (or explaining water to a fish) - 1 views

How real school reform should look (or explaining water to a fish) By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/how-real-school-reform-should-look-or-explaining-wat...

school reform not a standard body of knowledge political paralysis education change

started by Bonnie Sutton on 06 Feb 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

U.S. Senators Show Strong Support for Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Initiative - 1 views

Recognizing the vital role that High Performance Computing (HPC) plays in national competitiveness, on November 8th 24 U.S. Senators signed off on a letter to the White House asking the Administrat...

exascale computing hpc advanced scientific

started by Bonnie Sutton on 16 Nov 11 no follow-up yet

Dracula, Chapter 10 - 0 views

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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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transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins
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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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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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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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remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror
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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

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

Phone Hacking, Regulation of Social Networking Services - 1 views

What the Hacking Scandal Means for Regulation of Social Networking Services http://www.cdt.org/blogs/287what-hacking-scandal-means-regulation-social-networking-services ret by Omer Tene July 28, ...

Regulations for Social networking Hacking scandal Rupert Murdoch Myspace

started by Bonnie Sutton on 09 Aug 11 no follow-up yet

Women in STEM: An Opportunity and An Imperative - 1 views

http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportunity-and-imperative Women in STEM: An Opportunity and An Imperative Submitted on August 3, 2011 - 11:30am Categories: Education Jobs Mark...

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started by Bonnie Sutton on 05 Aug 11 no follow-up yet

Why Johnny Can't Program - 1 views

Why Johnny can't program -- and how that can change Today's schools are actually turning kids away from computer science, and it will take innovative programs to reverse the trend By Neil McAll...

middle school children's programming agent sheets computer science computing

started by Bonnie Sutton on 05 Aug 11 no follow-up yet

How XSEDE will facilitate collaborative science - 1 views

Permalink: https://www.xsede.org/qa_jp

digital resources XSEDE Collaborative support for users resource allocations Go Teams user groups

started by Bonnie Sutton on 23 Jul 11 1 follow-up, last by Claude Almansi on 23 Jul 11

Why We're Building a Civic Commons - And How You Can Be Part of It - 1 views

ttp://civiccommons.org/2011/06/building-a-civic-commons/ Why We're Building a Civic Commons - And How You Can Be Part of It | By Andrew McLaughlin Walk down any major street in any ci...

started by Bonnie Sutton on 09 Jul 11 no follow-up yet

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