Tag: education
group name: publicradio
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September 27, 2006 05:00 AM EDT --
from cnn.com:
"Her [Spelling's] overarching theme is to make everything about college -- choosing one, affording one, succeeding in one -- easier for families. Parents should be able to shop . . . more
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July 10, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
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Catherine from Edina, Minnesota, sent this message to us:
"Please address the word preventive . . . more
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May 04, 2008 12:42 PM EDT --
YOUR COMMENTS ARE WELCOMED
A fifth grade teacher friend . . . more
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May 03, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
Mega-billionaires and business legends Bill Gates and Eli Broad are shouting now that America must fix its education system or fail in global competition. A new Brookings Institution study on teaching . . . more
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October 19, 2006 03:17 AM EDT --
With the innocuous title of "No Child Left Behind," children, schools, districts, local school boards, and state departments of education find themselves in the grip of a governmental . . . more
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November 09, 2006 11:56 AM EST --
Are you:
In constant contact with your child?
In constant contact with school administrators?
Making your child's academic decisions?
Feel bad about yourself when your child does not do well? . . . more
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April 23, 2007 08:52 AM EDT --
Recently both Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty asserted that today's high schools are obsolete.
Minnesota Public Radio News considers the premise in Special report: Is . . . more
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October 25, 2006 09:22 PM EDT --
A gay marriage amendment has stalled in the Senate for the moment. So individual states have picked up the fight and Tennessee is no exception. Partisans have gone cuckoo on this issue to the point where . . . more
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April 03, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Our subject today is a pair of rather confusing words: uninterested and disinterested .
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English , the word uninterested means simply, "not . . . more
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April 10, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
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"I feel bad ."
"I feel badly ."
Which is correct?
Today we discuss this common pitfall when writing . . . more
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April 17, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
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Jeff Deck wanted to make a difference.
When the 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College attended his five-year reunion, he mingled with . . . more
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May 06, 2006 12:07 AM EDT --
Dear fellow earthlings, welcome to my world. I've got 55 years of experience living in it and without a doubt the best things in it are free.But although we are supposedly the highest order of . . . more
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October 21, 2006 11:11 AM EDT --
Our home toilets were pre-regulation vintage, though met the industrial standard of 3.5 gallons per flush. Then Congress got into the toilet business with The Energy Policy and conservation Act of 1992, . . . more
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October 21, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
There is a widespread belief among workers, those who are ignorant about the laws of economics, that unions can actually raise wages. In spite of the overwhelming evidence that labor productivity is the . . . more
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October 22, 2006 06:15 PM EDT --
We offered our retired aunt a respite from the heat in Phoenix. This meant lining up local health-care providers and making the appropriate appointments. The other day, the dental secretary called to remind . . . more
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July 06, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Hello, everybody-
Grammar Grater is a new, weekly podcast from Minnesota Public Radio. It's about English words, grammar and usage for the Information Age. Because we live in a time of e-mail, blogs, . . . more
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August 02, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Dashes are much more than just lines. They have very specific grammatical jobs. There are actually three types of dashes (excluding track and field events). The typographical dashes are the hyphen [ - . . . more
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January 26, 2007 08:28 PM EST --
A Witch had met a Christian,
while walking down the street;
The Witch began to tremble,
as they began to speak.
The evil one did seethe at him,
"Do not go near my Lair";
and the Christian . . . more
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October 19, 2006 09:34 AM EDT --
School violence has become a modern parent's worst nightmare and with the recent shootings in Colorado and Pennsylvania, it seems that safety at school isn't guaranteed. This week Mississippi Attorney . . . more
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October 29, 2006 07:48 AM EST --
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed in 1878. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal . . . more
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