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Keep children on track for higher education

The Essential Parenting Guide - Navigating Middle School and Beyond offers a wealth of practical, research-based advice on how parents can promote academic success.

Written by two journalists who also are mothers with eight children between them, the text is easy to read, and includes personal stories of real-life problems and solutions, as well as parent checklists and timetables. It includes cartoons by Dave Coverly, creator of the nationally syndicated "Speed Bump" comic strip.

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"Take your legs off and play:" Profile of a Paralympian

Discussion prompts & video archive.



Italy's 'Purple People' protest premier

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

Archive of Geography quizzes

One sport, 65 teams, no medals: NCAA Tournament is the Olympics of college basketball

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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.

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Soil Litter - The Food Web

There's a dense population under our feet that sustains life for us above the ground.


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Download a lesson based on political cartoons and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)

This week's lesson: Sunshine Week: Shine the light on your government

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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

FIASCO

DEFINITION:
A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted.
Dallas Morning News -- 03/15/2010

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