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Jan.29.2012
At long last I am able to post the first chapter of Lost Apple here at Red Room. It may also be read at Goodreads, but for chapters 1 through 5, please visit my main Wordpress blog. As I move toward publication later this year, I will be posting a few more chapters as well background and related...
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Jan.19.2012
Is this a tempest in a teapot?
Banned: William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was banned by Arizona as part of an ousted Mexican-American ethnic studies program
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Shakespeare work axed in Arizona schools as law bans 'ethnic studies'
By NINA...
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Jan.08.2012
This is a crossposting from my blog:
I am moving ahead under full steam with the publication of Lost Apple as an e-book. I suppose there is nothing special in this fact, at this point everyone is doing the same thing. Writers today are in the midst of a sea change in publishing, the...
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Aug.09.2011
I was born in 1962 and in secondary school some of our teachers were ‘anti-money’. This was then very modern.
In the school’s cellar, pupils smoked enormous amounts of pot, so it is a small miracle that anyone managed to graduate.
It was also very modern to give pupils ‘a say’. It wasn’t at all...
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May.24.2011
U.S. women talking to Afghan women is an idea far too long in coming. U.S. Marines are undertaking an experiment in Afghanistan. They are embracing the power of women’s work. A few women have been added to duty on the front lines. Read more about this on my Living in the Heartland blog.
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Nov.23.2010
Sticks, stones, and mean girls with phones, there is yet another way to further victimize tormented kids and it's coming from well-meaning adults.
My daughter was a victim of psychological bullying in school for seven years. She was recently diagnosed with post-traumatic (really ongoing ) stress...
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Oct.27.2010
A huge study came out yesterday, with dismal findings on bullying.
The report statement begins: According to a new study by the Josephson Institute of Ethics (the largest ever undertaken of the attitudes and conduct of high school students), half of all high school students (50 percent) admit...
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Oct.12.2010
I discovered this wonderful discussion site Kindleboards a few weeks ago. (This link takes you to the thread on my book, but of course there is loads more there.)
The downside, is it is feeding my growing appetite to actually get one of the little buggers for myself. If Amazon drops the...
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Oct.04.2010
“Differentiation” is the most overstated, yet underused buzzword in education these days. It’s hard to find anyone at the university level or in a school administrative position that doesn’t utter this seemingly magic word countless times every day.
By default, “Differentiation” now...
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Aug.21.2010
Florida Author Kelly Abell wants to encourage teens to read. After writing her first young adult novel to inspire her daughter to read, Kelly wants to spread the word that Reading Is Cool.
With the new age of video games and MP3 players reading is becoming something fewer teens enjoy. In fact,...
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