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The Assessment Game

texasisd.com - Did you and your friends ever try to learn a game no one in the group had actually played before, without the instructions? Did frustration lead to improvised rules tossed out at whim as the game...

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Give Schools Back to the Community

huffingtonpost.com - "Churn rate (sometimes called attrition rate), in its broadest sense, is a measure of the number of individuals or items moving into or out of a collective over a specific period of time.... The ph...

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School Tech Connect: Words of Wisdom

schooltechconnect.com - Pass them along. Diane gave a barnburner in DC yesterday. I decided to pass it along to my state representative, my highly reformy state senator, my charter-happy liberal Democratic congresswoman, ...

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Morningside Center

morningsidecenter.org - 'Education is about preparing young people to make the world better than it is' Pedro Noguera's speech at Morningside Center's Courageous Schools Conference May 21, 2011 I am in the middle of a l...

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Mayor Bloomberg’s 2008 State of the City Address

nytimes.com - Following is the prepared text of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s 2008 State of the City address as provided by the mayor's office. Thank you, Helen, and good afternoon. It's great to be in Queens. Ho...

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For 29 Dead Miners, No Justice

nytimes.com - Ann Arbor, Mich. EARLY on April 5, 2010, in the heart of West Virginia coal country, a huge explosion killed 29 workers at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Later that day, Preside...

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For 29 Dead Miners, No Justice

nytimes.com - Ann Arbor, Mich. EARLY on April 5, 2010, in the heart of West Virginia coal country, a huge explosion killed 29 workers at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Later that day, Preside...

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The 'adorable' gay penguins who adopted a baby chick

mobile.theweek.com - Instant Guide posted on December 9, 2011, at 12:35 PM A pair of Adelie penguins: Chinese zookeepers have allowed two "gay" penguins to adopt a chick from a female penguin who was struggling to care...

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Natalia Jiménez fue víctima de acoso escolar

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Estás Viendo: La popular cantante española confesó que por primera vez los difíciles momentos que vivió en su infancia. Fuente: Univision VIDEO School bullying and what is being done - Univision Ve...

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shop.wikileaks.org - WikiLeaks is under attack by the big financial services companies , but there are still ways you can beat them.Censorship, like everything else in the West, has been privatized. As a result of expo...

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School Tech Connect: Words of Wisdom

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Words of Wisdom:Words of Wisdomby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Pass them along.Diane gave a barnburner in DC yesterday. I decided to pass it along to my state representative, my hi...

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