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Kids Who Read to Dogs Maintain Reading Skills
August 12, 2011
Education
Education
August 12, 2011
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If You Get Green Postcard in The Mail, Don’t Call The Number
June 15, 2011 Telemarketers are getting tricky! Watch out for this one, coming to a mailbox near you.
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Senior Prank Turns Into Big Punishment
June 7, 2011 Oh my! Eight high school seniors at Porter High School in Brownsville, Texas were arrested for, get ready, TP'ing some trees on the school campus!
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Have You Seen This Ring?
June 2, 2011 As school comes to an end for the summer season and I watch all the graduating seniors prepare for college, and some moving off to accomplish their dreams elsewhere, I'm reminded about that special ring. The immortal class ring, something we were all happy to wear during our final year of high school.
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Teacher Tapes Student’s Mouth Shut
April 5, 2011 Oh no! Tell me, she did not do this!
A local Florida teacher took discipline to a whole new (read: bizarre) level last week when she reportedly taped her chatty student's mouth shut with packing tape.
13-year-old seventh grader Jazlyn Freel claims the incident took place during a routine science class.
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Arkansas Residents Not So Happy?
A new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index Poll ranks Arkansas in the bottom 10. The phone poll, conducted throughout the year in 2010 looked at six categories of well being: life evaluation (self-evaluation about your present life situation and anticipated one in five years); emotional health; work environment (such as job satisfaction); physical health; healthy behavior; and basic access (access to health care, a doctor, a safe place to exercise and walk, as well as community satisfaction).
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PA Teacher in Trouble For Telling It Like It is.
A Pennsylvania high school teacher has been suspended after writing in her blog that her students were ""disengaged, lazy whiners", among other things. I think this lady is spot on in her assessment of teenagers in this country.
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Winter Storm Fizzles, But Schools Still Made The Right Call.
The winter storm that swept through Texarkana on Wednesday didn't turn out to be anywhere near as bad as forecasters thought it would be. While the National Weather Service stuck with their forecast (until it was painfully obvious it just WASN'T going to happen) of anywhere from 4-8 inches of snowfall around the area, the actual snowfall recorded in Texarkana was only two inches