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Classroom
Bangalore-Cities-The Times of India:
Go online, save paper in the classroom. Students can now upload assignments online, have discussions in forums and check their marks online. (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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Seventh-grade teacher Ruth Keenan has a Facebook page. So does Jennifer McGovern, who teaches kindergarten. And so do the school districts they work for.RelatedRead Maureen Downey's blogTeacher sues over Facebook issueMore At (Read More)
Mixx: Tech:
Creating slideshows can be an excellent way for students to summarize their learning, share their what they've learned, and to share their ideas. If you have students that create slideshows that you or they think should be sh (Read More)
The Guardian:
In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremistsAs every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Brita (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Metro:
On a recent Thursday, 5-year-old Estefani Lovo Rivera took charge of a make-believe hair salon in her preschool classroom at Oakridge Elementary in Arlington County. Wielding a plastic fork as a hairbrush, dispatching custome (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
AbelardAbelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story (Read More)
Washington Post:
On a recent Thursday, 5-year-old Estefani Lovo Rivera took charge of a make-believe hair salon in her preschool classroom at Oakridge Elementary in Arlington County. Wielding a plastic fork as a hairbrush, dispatching custome (Read More)
The Guardian:
Horticulturalists, doctors and lawyers among instructors after Michigan legalises drug as a medicineIt goes without saying that there's no smoking in class. But there is a good deal of sniffing of leaves, discussion of the fi (Read More)
economictimes.indiatimes.com:
Mortality charges are that part of life insurance premium that go towards providing a death benefit cover. In other words, these are the actual cost of insurance in a life policy. (Read More)
Topic:
Life
guardian.co.uk Society:
Court is the wrong place to deal with parenting disputesThere they were, two sweet little girls, six or seven years old, talking frankly to a room packed with adult strangers about the sadness at the heart of their emotiona (Read More)
The Guardian:
Royal Court, LondonYou may, according to taste, find the title a come-on or a turn-off. But, far from being a sensational shocker, Mike Bartlett's play is a sharp, witty study of a man helplessly torn between his longtime mal (Read More)
USATODAY.com College Sports - Top Stories:
College athletes are continuing to graduate at a record rate. For the second consecutive year, the NCAA said Wednesday, the graduation ...
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Topic:
News
The Guardian:
Sherri and Tom Milley's children are now exempt from completing school assignments outside the classroomUsually it is the children, not the parents, who are loath to spend their evenings practising spelling and learning times (Read More)
Submitted by HeatherLeigh
from Google Reader:
There are just six days to go before TweetsGiving! Next week, participants will share what they are grateful for through Twitter and other online media and attend gratitude parties around the world.People will donate to a sha (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Measures such as care for the elderly and financial sector curbs welcomed, but education and fiscal proposals criticisedGordon Brown was today accused by the TUC of sending the "wrong political message" in a pre-election legi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Full marks to the students who complained to their headteacher about the intrusive taking of fingerprints in their schoolThe brilliant new documentary about privacy by David Bond, Erasing David, has a telling scene in Chippin (Read More)
L.A. Times - Africa:
The tiny south African nation's first opera, written by the author of the 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series, is a version of 'Macbeth,' with baboons. It's a rare opportunity for a local soprano. (Read More)
The Guardian:
The government perennially insists that education must be a partnership between home and school, but the terms of Ed Balls' proposed bill seem to be hellbent on creating confrontation rather than co-operation and I search in (Read More)
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