January 2008 - Posts
Regardless of one's political views, these pictures say a lot. If I were campaigning to run for President, I'd want to see some before and after pictures first. Touting the success of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), President Bush urged Congress
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A district in Texas has enlisted the help of some students in reducing electricity costs . If a staff member leaves a light or television on when she leaves her room, she might return to find she has been ticketed. The "green teams" in the Carrollton-Farmers
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The Social Security numbers of some kindergarten children in Texas are being given to a private company for the purpose of storing reading scores. Two wrongs occur to me here: Possible identity theft and funds used to create data bases for five and six
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The movie The Bucket List is creating quite a stir. Since it is based on two cancer patients wanting to get more gusto from life before they kick the bucket, people are starting to think about their own lives and what they want to accomplish. I've heard
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I'm sure I will step on some toes with this post, but it just seems wrong to me to give students an award every six weeks and at the end of every year just because they didn't get sick and have to miss school. I understand that we want our students to
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