Tag: education
group name: mnlife
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November 28, 2007 05:09 PM EST --
The Centers for Disease Control reported this week what many parents, and most school authorities figured out some time ago: bullying isn't just for the schoolyard anymore . Much of it has moved . . .
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November 01, 2009 03:11 PM EST --
From your perspective, does preschool work?
The program description from Early Lessons caught my eye:
The Perry Preschool Project is one of the most famous education experiments of the last . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
Education is one of the biggest line items of Minnesota's budget.
Minnesota's Governor Tim Pawlenty had a few choice comments about education costs and spending when addressing the Association . . .
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October 24, 2008 11:46 AM EDT --
Most college graduates walk out not only with the sheepskin but with loans to pay for that education.
But how has that changed as the economy has tanked and jobs are getting scarcer?
We at Minnesota . . .
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February 26, 2009 01:06 PM EST --
As if paying for college was not rough enough... now that plastic in your pocket is getting into the act.
Philip Novak of Minneapolis thought it made sense to put about $8,000 on his credit card. The . . .
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July 06, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Hello, everybody-
Grammar Grater is a new, weekly podcast from Minnesota Public Radio. It's about English words, grammar and usage for the Information Age. Because we live in a time of e-mail, blogs, . . .
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May 20, 2009 11:41 AM EDT --
North Memorial Health Care in Robbinsdale announced that it will either cut the hours or the positions of 170 people. The news comes a few weeks after Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and Park . . .
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April 23, 2007 08:52 AM EDT --
Recently both Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty asserted that today's high schools are obsolete.
Minnesota Public Radio News considers the premise in Special report: Is . . .
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June 16, 2009 10:28 AM EDT --
MPR's Tom Scheck reported this morning that governor Tim Pawlenty is slated to announce his cuts to balance the Minnesota budget today. He plans to use his emergency authority, unallotment, to balance . . .
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April 03, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Our subject today is a pair of rather confusing words: uninterested and disinterested .
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English , the word uninterested means simply, "not . . .
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April 10, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
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"I feel bad ."
"I feel badly ."
Which is correct?
Today we discuss this common pitfall when writing . . .
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April 17, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
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Jeff Deck wanted to make a difference.
When the 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College attended his five-year reunion, he mingled with . . .
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December 04, 2006 11:51 AM EST --
Do you remember the $300 tax rebate checks you got from President Bush? Sure $300 in the mail is nice, but I also remember that this was a time that most of the social services in our town . . .
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May 24, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
Our family outing last Sunday brought us to the doorsteps of the Eco-Home at Hawk Ridge in Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood.. The kids were not overly thrilled about the venture, but my husband . . .
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February 29, 2008 09:49 AM EST --
Remember Ben Stein, the boring teacher in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? Or, maybe you remember him from his seven-year stint as the host of the Emmy award-winning . . .
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November 08, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
The pendulum of politics always swings in the U.S. It's one thing I have always had faith in. Sometimes it takes a while; but through this mid-term election the "pulse of the . . .
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August 02, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Dashes are much more than just lines. They have very specific grammatical jobs. There are actually three types of dashes (excluding track and field events). The typographical dashes are the hyphen [ - . . .
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October 08, 2009 04:17 PM EDT --
MPR and the Citizen's League team up for a live event discussion in Policy and a Pint: The Elements of Education . We'll continue the conversation here online, and I'll provide a debrief . . .
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February 18, 2007 05:46 PM EST --
Did you know…
That in Brazil there are over 130 words used to describe skin color?
That the sickle cell . . .
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November 10, 2006 10:50 AM EST --
My daughter brought this document home from school and I wanted to share it on Duluth Life. It's important that we teach our kids these things. My husband and I have been teaching . . .
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