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Recent Education Blog | January 2009 Posts

Pink Haired Student Gets the Boot and College Co-eds Make the Most of Bad Weather

by Michele Cheplic

26 Jan 2009 03:50 AM

Strep throat and the flu have been going around, but that's not what has kept 11-year-old Natasha Rzanca out of Sawyer Elementary School for more than a week. The Michigan fifth-grader isn't sick nor has she been suspended.

Teachers Speak Out About Obama Inauguration

by Michele Cheplic

22 Jan 2009 11:51 AM

As I mentioned in a previous blog, thousands of public and private school teachers around the country allowed their students to put down their books on Tuesday to watch history being made.

Schools Using Obama Inauguration as Teaching Tool

by Michele Cheplic

19 Jan 2009 10:06 AM

At noon tomorrow hundreds of thousands of children living on the East Coast will put down their books and lunch trays and gather in front of massive television screens to watch history unfold.

Father Makes PTA History

by Michele Cheplic

14 Jan 2009 01:00 PM

When was the last time you saw a dad at a PTA meeting? Apparently, males are scarce at most Parent-Teacher Association meetings, which is why the appointment of Charles J. Saylors as the new president of the educational organization is making headlines around the country.

A School By Any Other Name

by Michele Cheplic

07 Jan 2009 04:19 AM

What's a six letter word for the place your children go each day to learn important life lessons? It's not a trick question. The answer is SCHOOL. Unless, of course, you live in the United Kingdom. Students attending Watercliffe Meadow Primary in Sheffield, UK no longer attend "school.



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beauty1913 says...

"I agree with you because as students we didnt take things as serious as we should have but now that we know that we will be teaching knowledged to someone other than ourselves; then we want to make that imperssion."

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