Tag: education
group name: slicesoflife
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December 28, 2006 01:24 AM EST --
Over the past few months, a number of people have suggested to me that I should return to school in order to complete my BA degree. I am having a massive amount of resistance to this idea; to . . . more
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October 15, 2006 05:02 AM EDT --
I don't want a cure - just a temporary respite from my addiction. You know that you're addicted when the thing you're hooked on radically interferes with your life and for me it's . . . more
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February 04, 2007 09:17 PM EST --
Growing up down on the bayous, I can remember the snickers of folks at the class reunion knocking the education we received. This appalled me but what do you tell a bunch of folks who never . . . more
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October 31, 2006 03:25 PM EST --
A couple of years ago I received a letter from the National Library for the Blind. It is second only to Congress in having the largest Braille Library in the world. Without government . . . more
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March 27, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
My 14 year old niece Brianna had to write a poem for a school project and decided to write about her relationship with her father. Her mother shared the poem with me and then asked that I pass . . . more
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October 12, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
After several years as a stay home mom, my daughter recently went back to college to earn her teaching certificate. She completed a number of required classes, passed a series of qualifying . . . more
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June 01, 2008 06:46 AM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago, Lena and I were sitting outside on my porch and she mentioned that she had a collection of instruments that she thought might be fun to bring into class. The kids might really . . . more
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June 15, 2007 05:55 AM EDT --
One of the most important thing one can do for a child is to read aloud to them. Reading good quality picture books (both fiction and non-fiction) not only expands a child's knowledge but also . . . more
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November 15, 2006 06:04 PM EST --
Sent to me by a friend who swears that all of these are true! Humorous even if they are not...!
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW --- BUT PROBABLY DON'T
1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's . . . more
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July 25, 2008 02:13 PM EDT --
Fifty groups of Catholics opposed to the Church's ban on birth-control wrote a letter to Pope Benedict outlining the catastophic results of its hard line view. As a Catholic myself I have struggled . . . more
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October 25, 2006 10:25 PM EDT --
In the summer of my junior year of college I was presented with an opportunity I could not let slip through my fingers. There was going to be a study tour of Europe that summer and I was bound and . . . more
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November 09, 2007 07:43 AM EST --
"Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives...in childhood all books are books of divination, telling us about the future, and like the fortune-teller who sees . . . more
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October 31, 2007 10:07 PM EDT --
When I look back on my early school days, celebrating holidays were certainly some of my fondest memories. I loved those old Halloween school parties where the mothers would bake the most delicious . . . more
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April 19, 2006 11:59 PM EDT --
Have you ever heard the term, "screech like a banshee?" This phrase is often used when describing the screech owl. Though this article focuses mainly on eastern screech owls, it has a small bit . . . more
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August 29, 2006 04:08 AM EDT --
Now instead of being just a mother and working full time I am also a college student again. I work the overnight shift in a group home for troubled boys. I feel that I do not do enough for . . . more
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January 30, 2007 01:44 PM EST --
My daughter has worked at a high school for fourteen years, and I am presently studying to become an elementary school teacher. Said daughter sent this to me today. After reading it, I . . . more
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June 07, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
Pendaflex Learning Center has some new couses that are enrolling right now. Their featured course this month is "Search Engines 101: Using Search Engines to
Market Your Business . . . more
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October 21, 2006 01:19 AM EDT --
I am forever leaving my cell phone sitting in some obscure location. I have found it in the bathroom, in the car, under my pillow, in the pocket of jeans headed for the laundry and even at the bottom . . . more
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October 11, 2007 12:28 AM EDT --
"Teaching means creating situations where structure can be discovered."
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January 05, 2007 12:28 AM EST --
During The 1950’s, The United States began defining a new identity, one that would signify great optimism and possibility. . . . more
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