Monday, September 29, 2008

Washington's top students guaranteed a spot at WSU

Washington State University is offering guaranteed admission to in-state students who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class or who have at least a 3.5 grade point average at the time of ...

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CLARe--Contextualized Learning Activity Repository

CLARe--Contextualized Learning Activity Repository
CLARe currently contains resources related to language learning and study skills but plans are underway to expand the contents. Take a look to see what's available. ___JH
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"CLARe (Contextualised Learning Activity Repository) is a repository for online learning and teaching materials. It contains complete interactive, multimedia activities (learning objects) and individual resources, such as texts, video or audio recordings (assets).
Use our search facility to find the most appropriate resources, or browse to see the kind of material that CLARe contains."


"CLARe is running on GNU EPrints repository-creating software, which generates eprints repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0. The GNU EPrints repository-creating software is available for free at http://software.eprints.org/."


NW Board OKs 30 percent hike in driver’s education fee (Bluffton News-Banner)

Beginning this school year Northern Wells Community Schools will increase the cost of its driver education program a whopping 30 percent from $250 to $325 for students residing in the district. Continue reading ...

The Future of Education

The Future of Education
It is no secret I love technology and sometimes you can’t help but wonder how it will continue to change our lives (for better or worse). I look back at my education and the teachers who had the daunting task of trying to teach a dunce like me a thing or two. I never really enjoyed school, in fact the day I graduated high school has to be one of

Is 'teaching to the test' damaging our education system?

Good teachers vary in substance and style, but they tend to have a few things in common: They inspire students to push themselves.

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