Career interface has become key to teaching modern family, consumer sciences (Kearney Hub)
KEARNEY ? Teaching has changed since Kathy Gifford was a rookie....more...Paterson's school buildings reaching crisis point (The Record)
PATERSON ? Attending class in some Paterson schools is a lot like driving a Model-T Ford while being passed by a new Mustang, says Robert Greuter, the district's director of facilities and maintenance....more... AUS Tertiary Update (Scoop.co.nz)
Union members at the country?s eight universities will begin a series of meetings next week to consider whether to put new pay offers to ratification....more... Break Point: Ballard High School's New Age Tennis Coach and the Bad News Beavers (Seattle Weekly)
The 50-year-old life coach likes to record flute music and tend to organic vegetables....more... Tech colleges get more students with degrees (Macon Telegraph)
After graduating from the University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, Miki Causey worked a handful of odd jobs....more... 2 Tucson doctors disciplined by state medical board (FOX 11 Tucson)
McCain defends decision to skip Iowa straw poll Republican presidential hopeful John McCain offered no apologies Friday for his decision to skip the Iowa Straw Poll as a man dressed in a chicken suit walked back and forth across the town square, clucking and holding a sign that read "you balked at the straw poll."...more... EarthTalk: honeybees, 'terminator' seeds (MSNBC)
Dear EarthTalk : What is causing the dramatic decline in honeybee populations in the U.S. and elsewhere in recent years, and what is being done about it?...more... The Kindest Cut of All (Los Angeles Downtown News)
In the back room of Downtown's only barber college, a handful of students sit around a table wolfing down a lunch of Carl's Jr. hamburgers. They are an intimate bunch: Two are cousins and related to the school's owner. There is also a pair of twin brothers....more... Up-and-comers (Isthmus)
I've rarely read another collection of stories featuring so many authors - 21 to be exact - that has left me more exhilarated. Some shift is afoot in this generation of writers, and it bodes well for the present and future of fiction....more... |