Tampa Schools Prepare Students for the World ...

Tampa Schools Prepare Students for the World of Tomorrow through Global Classrooms

The United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), along with New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., has brought the Model United Nations to Tampa schools. Originally, only...

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Take Stock in Children College Scholarships ...

Take Stock in Children College Scholarships for Orlando Schools and Seminole County Public Schools

An Overview of the Take Stock in Children College Scholarship Program

Take Stock in Children is a statewide scholarship program being implemented by Orlando Schools and the Seminole...

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Swimming Pool Landscaping

Landscaping around your pool can be a lot of fun. Picking out just the right plants that you love and that will complement your pool really can be very exciting. But when choosing your pool landscaping, it’s important not to just be thinking about how the landscaping will look but also to...

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Summer HEAT 2006 Offers Professional ...

Summer HEAT 2006 Offers Professional Development Opportunities for Teachers in Miami Dade County School District

An Overview of Summer Heat 2006

Miami Schools are offering a range of summer professional development courses for its public school teachers and administrators in order...

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Study Skills That Will Help You Get Straight ...

By following these twelve tips, you will be guaranteed to get straight AAAAA’s. Read each tip carefully.

1. Find a quiet area in your house in which you are comfortable and can isolate yourself from distractions. Be sure that this space includes a chair, table or desk, and...

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Special Education Needs Causing Financial ...

Now, I am all for special education for children with disabilities. I attended school at a time when such children were either put into special schools or thrown in with the general student population to sink or swim on their own. It was a terrible inequity. It finally was addressed in the 1970s...

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Spanish Made Easy – Unlocking Your ...

Spanish Made Easy – Unlocking Your Hidden Knowledge. Part 2

You might not realize it but you already know hundreds, if not thousands, of Spanish words? In these articles we will highlight all the ways in which the English and Spanish languages share hundreds of words, words that you...

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Spanish Made Easy – Unlock Your Hidden ...

Spanish Made Easy – Unlock Your Hidden Knowledge. Part 1

You might not realize it but you already know hundreds, if not thousands, of Spanish words? In these articles we will highlight all the ways in which the English and Spanish languages share hundreds of words, words that you...

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Spanish For Beginners – Pronunciation

We all find it hard when starting a new language, and one of the trickiest things can be pronunciation. What we will do is give you a quick run through of the rules and how they apply them to Spanish words

Welcome to Spanish for beginners, a pronunciation guide, the first thing we are are...

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Snapshot of 2006-07 School Year for the Los ...

Snapshot of 2006-07 School Year for the Los Angeles Schools

The 2006-07 school year for the Los Angeles schools is still burdened with many of the same overcrowding problems and busing issues of the past; however, improvements are being made and the future is looking brighter.

The...

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San Diego Schools Embrace the No Child Left ...

San Diego Schools Embrace the No Child Left Behind Program

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program is a federal law that governs elementary and secondary education and is funded by Federal Title I. Under the NCLB, school boards must ensure that their high poverty schools meet the...

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San Diego Schools Closing Gap In Math

As the San Diego schools graduating class of 2007 begin their senior year, school district superintendents across San Diego County are celebrating. The San Diego County Schools announced in September that, as of the class of 2006, the gap in passing the crucial math portion of the state exit...

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