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"What Makes a Great Teacher? Image credit: Veronika Lukasova Also in our Special Report: National: "How America Can Rise Again" Is the nation in terminal decline? Not necessarily. But securing the future will require fixing a system that has become a joke. Video: "One Nation, On Edge" James Fallows talks to Atlantic editor James Bennet about a uniquely American tradition-cycles of despair followed by triumphant rebirths. Interactive Graphic: "The State of the Union Is ..." ... thrifty, overextended, admired, twitchy, filthy, and clean: the nation in numbers. By Rachael Brown Chart: "The Happiness Index" Times were tough in 2009. But according to a cool Facebook app, people were happier. By Justin Miller On August 25, 2008, two little boys walked into public elementary schools in Southeast Washington, D.C. Both boys were African American fifth-graders. The previous spring, both had tested below grade level in math. One walked into Kimball Elementary School and climbed the stairs to Mr. William Taylor's math classroom, a tidy, powder-blue space in which neither the clocks nor most of the electrical outlets worked. The other walked into a very similar classroom a mile away at Plummer Elementary School. In both schools, more than 80 percent of the children received free or reduced-price lunches. At night, all the children went home to the same urban ecosystem, a zip code in which almost a quarter of the families lived below the poverty line and a police district in which somebody was murdered every week or so. Video: Four teachers in Four different classrooms demonstrate methods that work (Courtesy of Teach for America's video archive, available in February at teachingasleadership.org) At the end of the school year, both little boys took the same standardized test given at all D.C. public schools-not a perfect test of their learning, to be sure, but a relatively objective one (and, it's worth noting, not a very hard one). After a year in Mr. Taylo

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تدور احداث الفيلم حول شخص يجد واحد من صفوة القتلة المتسلسلين نفسه مُراقبًا ومتتبعًا ومستهدفًا من شخص آخر غامض من خارج اللعبة، ليكتشف أن من يستهدفه هو النسخة الشابة منه. المصدر: https://sttar-net.blogspot.com/2019/10/gemini-man-2019.html

تدور احداث الفيلم حول (بيتر باركر) و أصديقاؤه في اجازة صيفية الي اروبا , حيث يجد بيتر في محاولة لنقاذ أصديقائه من يد الشرير المعروف باسم (ميستيريو) بتبداء المعركة بينهما. المصدر: https://sttar-net.blogspot.com/2019/10/spider-man-far-from-home-2019.html

A good interview from a very articulate man on "What really matters in education?". A lot of good sense and seemingly simple advice.

The BBC have come up with what they think are the 25 Biggest Turning Points in Earth's History. Our planet has existed for 4.5 billion years, and a lot has happened but these turning points shaped our world significantly. They include leaps forward in evolutionary leaps, devastating asteroid collisions, mass extinctions and finally the coming of man

A really well made cautionary YouTube tale about how Twitter can be used in facile ways. It opens up the topic of addictive use, though it does ignore completely the positive aspects of its use. Info says; A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away. From: "SuperNews!" An animated sketch comedy series airing on Current TV. Every Friday night at 10 PM ET/PT. For more SuperNews! go to www.current.com/supernews."

Man. Silver bullets stink. Literature circles, for the uninitiated, have the curse-like blessing of being effective. This nearly guarantees them being

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New NB Red Pour is a rising name in the world of perfumes. Hailing from a perfume house that has been serving the industry and needs of fragrance lovers for decades, the brand has taken into consideration everything one can ask for while buying a scent. Enriched with arrogant scent. Perfect gift for man in your life. Blend of aromatic, citrus, woody and floral notes

And it serves as a reminder to be less reverent about those long-held assumptions.