Character Education

The Kansas City Star reports on Martha Smith who has been on the job since 1926!
“In a time when nothing seems to last anymore, the world still has Martha Smith.   In 1926 she took a job at the tiny Coal Creek Library in Vinland, Kan. Eighty-two years later, she’s still there.”
You MUST read this article, […]

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“USA.gov now offers a new page called Teen Resources, which contains information on:

Driving
Education
Environmental Consciousness
Health and Safety
Internet and Mobile
Jobs and Volunteering
Money
Travel and Recreation”

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Now a Bookstore Cafe is not such a new idea but when is the last time you have seen a Bookstore Cafe that featured ‘Job Training’? Here is one!
“Two weeks ago, More Than Words, the nonprofit bookstore in Waltham, Mass., opened a cafe that, like the bookstore, is staffed by troubled young adults aged […]

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Randy Pausch, co-author of The Last Lecture, which became a bestseller after being published by Hyperion in April, died last Friday. He was 47 and had been battling pancreatic cancer.
A computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, Pausch gave a talk last September modeled on the kind where professors are asked to pretend they are dying […]

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Here is an update from the Marans:
Great News!
We thought you might be interested to know we have recently updated our website to include over 200 of our electronic guides
in a new easy to use format. You can view our new e-guides by visiting our website:
http://www.maran.com/MI/maran_illustrated_kitchen_e.html
Enjoy!
The Marans

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An interesting article appeared in the InsideHigherEd.com newsletter. It was the title caught my attention! FISH TO PROFS: STICK TO TEACHING. I could just visualize one of those mounted ’singing catfish’ talking to a group of professors! The article, of course, was more serious. The premise - “Should we […]

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An interesting article appeared in The Washington Post entitled, ‘Question for the Ages: What Books When?‘ The article was written by Valerie Strauss of the ‘Post’. After giving a few examples of parents being upset about books their children were reading or being read to at school she says,
‘The episodes illustrate […]

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Sara Rimer of the New York Times wrote a column entitled, Gatsby’s Green Light Beckons a New Set of Strivers. In the article she says that ‘Urban students see glimmers of their own evolving identities and dreams in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel’. The article was published on February 17, 2008.
Great Gatsby books, etc. […]

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Two of my all time favorites are EducationWorld.com and Internet4Classrooms.com.  If you don’t find it there, you don’t need it!  Well, almost!
EducationWorld.com has a ton of great articles covering almost aspect of education.  Major areas include: Lesson Planning, Professional Development, Administrator’s Desk (administration), Technology Integration and School Issues.   The site is fully searchable.  Note that some […]

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My aunt, Helen, has just published a very interesting book entiteled, Greige Bales and Village Tales: History, Photographs, Contracts and Personal Stories.  The book is about the Sayles Bleachery and life in that community in Asheville, N.C.My father has a section in her book, too!
You can purchase the book from Amazon.

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