Friday, August 22nd, 2008
I've been reading about the high cost of diesel fuel for school buses and I've got a rather radical plan about education. I have a plan to save millions--no BILLIONS in property taxes every year. Why can't kids telecommute to class? Colleges give degrees online, why can't schools do the ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I recently was sitting in the Atlanta International Airport with a (2) hour lay-over. I had some time to just think and look back on my own life. I had read the newspaper and was tired of surfing the net, when a couple of our "warriors" passed by and sat ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
I am a teen who is in high school. I am right now an average high schooler with average grades(A's B's C's and even sometimes D's). In addition, I also have a lot of bad concerns about our school systems.
The first topic I want to talk about is cheating. At ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Today, I read an article in the paper that stated HUD was going to implement new rules that would protect home owners from the big bad, predatory lenders. I have been seeing this kind of drivel in the papers and on the evening news for a while now, and I ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
America's school system is in a crisis. More children are illiterate, more children are dropping out, and more children are acting out. Oprah has talked about it, as well as John Stossel. Each person has a solution to this complex problem, but none have been tested in the real world. ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Mar 8 was International Women's Day. Almost all the dailies sans language barriers carried headlines on the special day. Media channels were agog with interviews and status of women in the present day world. Women's emancipation over the years was quite evident from the style and charisma that they carried ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Too many people think that schools are hopeless and that nothing can be done. Or they live in that dream world that says, "not here; not my school." This is exactly the same mentality that we old-timers saw at the early stages of what later became a nationwide drug epidemic.
What ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The internet can be a wonderful educational tool for our students, but it also presents a whole host of threats and problems that must be taken into consideration.
Today's youngsters are quick to assimilate the skills needed to become proficient on the internet, but they lack the experience to always know ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
We must educate to alleviate the problem of prejudism in our society. Prejudism is a worldwide phenomenon which has come along way since slavery, yet still we have light years of change to make as human beings. Our minds are trained to judge; we are constantly critiquing the news broadcaster, ...
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