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  • It's nice to be needed!

    Posted November 7th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

    Admit it, it would be kind of nice to be unaffected by the recent financial turmoil, wouldn't it?  Teachers may not make a ton of money but it sure is nice to know that your job will always be needed

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  • Gay Marriage Taught in Schools?

    Posted October 31st, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

    Here in California we will go to the ballot box on Tuesday not necessarily to vote for president (California is going to Obama) but to vote on a proposition that has recieved more attention than any o

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  • Kids Today...

    Posted October 24th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

    If you are a teacher or have kids you know that kids LOVE band-aids!  I was talking to another teacher who was wondering why kids nowadays love band-aids so much while we did not growing up.  I have

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  • Toll Booth Education!

    Posted October 17th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

    Does this sound fair to you?  Rather than tax an entire state for a new highway, how about installing a toll booth on that h

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  • Go Hug a Principal!

    Posted October 11th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

        Would you like to be a school principal?  I sure wouldn't!  In my opinion, it is a mostly thankless job.  Becoming a school principal is a necessary step if your intention is to climb hig

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  • To Bail Out or Not Bail Out?

    Posted October 3rd, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

    To Bail Out or Not Bail Out?

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  • Street Children Find Hope at El Shaddai

    Sylvestre Nzitukuze was a good soldier. He served in the Rwandan National Defense Forces until an inescapable vision tore him away to a new life. "I don't know where or how it came, but I knew I had to leave the army and help the street kids," he exclaims. 

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  • Conquest of the Word Masters: 826 Valencia Expands its Empire from Coast to Coast

    by Ann Simms

    Mac Barnett is turning a shampoo bottle over in his hands. The liquid inside is viscous, the color of blood. “We haven’t gotten all the kinks out yet. But we’re close,” he says, grinning mischievously.

    “Rasputin Baby Shampoo” is one ofthe 300 products that Barnett and his colleagues are developing for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. (“El Dorado Solid Gold Scrubber Pads” and “Mammoth Chunks” soup are two more of the works-in-progress.) This store, once opened, will be the retail counterpoint to 826 LA, an educational wonderland for kids that’s been up and buzzing since March of 2005.

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  • The Edible Schoolyard: Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation

    by Ann Simms

    In the summer of 1969, Alice Waters and a friend were traveling across the plains of central Anatolia in a tiny, beat-up Morris Minor. Waters had just completed her coursework at the Montessori Institute in London, where she was preparing to become a high school teacher. This trip to Turkey, along with the next year she would spend restaurant hopping in France, was to be her last hurrah before launching a lifelong career in education.

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