As a high school student myself, I was intrigued by Peg Tyre's article about a Staten Island school's turnaround. Tyre shows the importance of writing skills to academic and professional success. She looks specifically at the new and improved curriculum at New Dorp High School, which emphasizes analysis over self-expression.
From the National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 2012, in Las Vegas, many of the the nation's best language arts minds shared material from their presentations. Use the searchable program (given to you through Diigo as well), find the sessions you're interested in, and come back to this page to see if the session's materials are available.
Faculty members at Mesa Community College will present "Preparedness is Survival," a day of lectures and discussions on the impending Zombie Apocalypse on Wednesday, October 31, 2012.
All Events will take place at the MCC Southern and Dobson Campus (1833 W. Southern Ave., Mesa) in the Paul A Elsner Library, room 145.
The more prolific snappers will fall in love with Snapjoy, a new service that compiles and organizes the photos you've spread out across Instagram, Picasa, Flickr, and your hard drive. Storage space starts at a generous 5GB, but there are plenty of easy ways to earn additional free space.
For a good long while, Mitt Romney was the luckiest man in politics. He joined the 2012 race as the default Republican front-runner after more formidable challengers chose not to run. His declared rivals were at turns ineffectual (Tim Pawlenty), ridiculous (Herman Cain) or self-destructive (Newt Gingrich)-granting Mitt a fairly easy if occasionally fraught path to the nomination...
After a May 17th video was leaked, Romney's luck may have run out.