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Three Philadelphia-area schools will be among six to receive Golden Apple Awards for educational innovation today in Harrisburg. The awards, initiated by House speaker Dennis O'Brien, (R, Philadelphia) are designed to highlight unique education ...
2008-06-09 03:45:00
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Thirty-three outstanding young men and women from across the nation today were awarded fellowships from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation , a national advocate for improving the quality of science and mathematics teaching.
2008-06-09 06:00:00
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"Number blindness", a disorder that renders people incapable of understanding mathematics, is more common among kids than "word blindness" or dyslexia, a new study has claimed.
2008-06-09 03:37:28
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Robert Bates, 99, of Shepherd has lived a full an interesting life. (Sun Photo by RYAN EVON) At the young age of 99, Robert H. Bates has led a rich life in many ways. Born on April 13, 1909, Bates is a former Shepherd Public Schools teacher and ...
2008-06-08 08:36:00
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The College of Business has received a $50,000 endowment from the North Carolina Surplus Lines Association, a support agency for licensees who underwrite unique and hard-to-place risks. The endowment will support a new risk and insurance ...
2008-06-08 08:07:00
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A number of students were given special awards for their achievements during the graduation ceremony at Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua on Sunday. Religious Studies Award: Elizabeth Anderson. Physical Science Award: Fuxi Lu. Life Science Award ...
2008-06-08 09:33:00
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For service to advancing higher education as an academic, researcher and administrator, and to the community through leadership roles in organisations addressing significant public health and social policy issues. Dr David Michael BENNETT AO QC ...
2008-06-08 08:57:00
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Pitt County Schools honored 34 teachers this month that have trained every math teacher in the county and several neighboring counties over the last five years. As part of the nationally funded North Carolina Partnership for Improving Mathematics and ...
2008-06-08 08:07:00
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Itz olwaiz neiss, as they would prefer me to write, to see the revival of the Spelling Reform movement. Out of the idealistic early twentieth century world of Shaw and the Fabians came a number of things which either disappeared or caught on ...
2008-06-08 11:28:00
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Military power requires brainpower, and the Defense Department is moving to engage a new generation of scientists and engineers to conduct research that may pay off in technological breakthroughs for the nation's military. The department last week ...
2008-06-08 09:26:00
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Children's laughter can still be heard in the gold-painted halls of the Tri-Community Public Charter School, on the second floor of an Armed Forces Retirement Home building in Northwest Washington. But after June 30, the elementary school will be gone, a rare case of a D.C. school closing because...
2008-06-08 08:52:55
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When little baby Isaac was born in a Lilliputian English village, premature and small enough to fit into a quart pot, he wasn't expected to survive.
2008-06-08 09:35:49
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THE polemics of language is back again with us. There are strident calls to revert to Bahasa Malaysia for the teaching of Maths and Science. Actually, Mathematics is a good way to pick up the English language or any language for that matter.
2008-06-08 07:09:13
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(AP) -- Don Hayen has a handy way of deflecting the instant pity that comes when he reveals his Alzheimer's disease: "But I haven't lost my keys all day," he quickly jokes. Hayen is part of a growing new movement in Alzheimer's: Patients diagnosed early enough to still be articulate and demand better care and better research.
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Like a wristwatch that needs to be wound daily for accurate time-telling, the human circadian system — the biological cycles that repeat approximately every 24 hours — requires daily light exposure to the eye's retina to remain synchronized with the solar day. In a new study published in the June issue of Neuroscience Letters, researchers have demonstrated that when it comes to the circadian system, not all light exposure is created equal.
1969-12-31 04:00:00
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