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Each of us pays dozens of different taxes, but it seems ironic that the only tax on which we currently get to vote is the one to educate the children in our community. A good education will be essential for our state and our nation to remain ...
2010-02-07 04:26:00
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Regular readers of this column know I view most literary awards with a jaundiced eye, but I make an exception for the Colorado Book Awards — because I won one once. Perhaps because of this and knowing very little about the mechanics of the award, I ...
2010-02-07 05:23:00
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Ten-year-old Lindsey Ranz likes that she can raise her hand to get homework help at the new after-school program at Centennial Elementary School. “I wasn’t doing math very well,” the fifth-grader said, adding that Cynthia Quirk, a tutor for the ...
2010-02-07 06:20:00
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The world's appreciation of Johann Sebastian Bach's greatness owes itself to a chance event. Seven decades after Bach's death, Felix Mendelssohn's grandmother gave the teen an old manuscript the family had acquired at an auction. It was the score for ...
2010-02-07 06:06:00
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EAST ORANGE -After 35 years of crunching numbers and helping avert financial crises in East Orange, the city’s treasurer is retiring to the Florida sun. “I enjoyed working in each one of the positions in East Orange,” said Linda Munro, who held ...
2010-02-07 06:42:00
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students were “devastatingly far” from leading the world in science and math. President Bush’s No Child Left Behind initiative put almost every imaginable part of the U.S. education system under a microscope, establishing national standards for ...
2010-02-07 05:16:00
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In a meeting recently in Northern California, an educator grumbled that it didn't do any good to make a field trip to Long Beach to try to copy the local school district's successes in raising student scores. And he was right. But here's what would ...
2010-02-07 01:34:00
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He did the math and figured he'd crack triple digits at divisionals — if he kept winning, that is. There was always a chance he'd lose twice, not qualify for sectionals, and end his high school career with 98 or 99. "It was important to me because ...
2010-02-07 01:27:00
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Jacob Medjuck’s new film has won 7 of the 9 film festivals it has entered. PIXAR is a fan. But you won’t be able to see it if the big movie studios get their way. When Summerhood premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Jacob was granted two ...
2010-02-07 02:31:00
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SACRAMENTO - Poorly performing Valley schools could see big changes under proposals the state is considering to snare up to $700 million from a federal program. But the scope of the reforms remains in doubt as a showdown looms in the Assembly over ...
2010-02-07 02:03:00
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PRESIDENT Obama had been getting high marks in his first year in office for what seemed to be an insightful approach to education reform. Too bad he flunked the final. Give Obama credit for what he got right. Somewhere along the line, perhaps during ...
2010-02-07 02:24:00
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The Great Depression. Stomach-churning slaughterhouse depictions from Upton Sinclair. Immigration. Cubans, the U.S.S. Maine and muckrakers. Prisoners buried alive, upside down, by barbarians. Welcome to history, U.S. and otherwise, as offered in ...
2010-02-07 02:03:00
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When my son still wasn’t talking at age two, my wife and I heard whispers of “autism” from relatives, so we took him in to be evaluated, fully expecting to hear that we were worried about nothing, and that even though our son spent most of his ...
2010-02-07 02:39:00
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Rep. Bart Gordon has a busy agenda planned for his final year as chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, and parts of it will have a direct impact on the future of Tennessee. The primary goal for the Murfreesboro Democrat, who is ...
2010-02-07 02:03:00
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Jim Henderson called it, months ago. "It was dead of summer, and I was reporting from Saints training camp, a live shot at noon, " he said. "I was so tired and sweaty, I was delirious out there." Courtesy of WWL Jim Henderson of WWL-TV Sports. WWL ...
2010-02-07 01:56:00
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