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Student Loan Debt: Major Progress in Eliminating It! Thank you, President Biden!

Student Loan Debt: Major Progress in Eliminating It! Thank you, President Biden!

Today President Biden announced a major new program to eliminate the school loan debt of some people and to help make the debt load for others much easier! This is great news! I needed a lot of scholarship money and took out loans for my undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College. The college helped a lot with its own money, and I was a National Merit Scholar. But, I had to take out loans. Without them I could not have…

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Celebrate Museum Day: Get Free Tickets to Visit a Museum Saturday, September 22, 2018

Celebrate Museum Day: Get Free Tickets to Visit a Museum Saturday, September 22, 2018

Museum Day is a wonderful annual program run by the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. Museum Day is a one-day event in which participating museums and cultural institutions across the United States provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. Participants may download one ticket per e-mail address. The ticket provides free general admission on Saturday, September 22, 2018, for two people. Here is the link to find out more, select a museum, and create the ticket: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/….

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Nine Questions to Help Verify Information

Nine Questions to Help Verify Information

Finding people with excellent critical thinking skills seems to be on the top of every employer’s wish list. It is also a very important goal for educators to help students of all ages develop such skills. And, yes, it is a skill and everybody can learn it and improve existing skills levels. Here’s a good starting point if you want to know more about how: http://www.poynter.org/2016/9-questions-that-help-you-verify-information/442576/ 

Your Kids on Books

Your Kids on Books

The best advice any teacher ever gave me outside of recommending I accept Bryn Mawr College’s very generous scholarship offer was something another teacher told me when I was about 10 years old. She told me to read–read anything I could get my hands on and just keep reading. And, here I am, all this (ahem) decades later, and I still read just about anything I can get my hands on…thank goodness for public libraries. And, speaking of which, here’s…

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Ohio Teacher to Get the Death Penalty Over Duct Tape Flap?

Ohio Teacher to Get the Death Penalty Over Duct Tape Flap?

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The following post appeared in 2013 on another blog written by Molly Joss. The post proved to be very popular. You have probably read about the teacher who posted a photo online of some of her students with duct tape on their mouths and a caption something along the lines of, “Now I know how to keep them quiet!” She says the students were just messing around and so was she. They agree. No one is claiming she abused them…

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