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Arizona Supreme Court upholds state law requiring public officials to be proficient in English

By admin | Published: August 22, 2012

PHOENIX — an Arizona law requiring public officials to be able to comprehend and use the English language is constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday as it explained why a woman was barred from running for a city council seat. The justices issued their unanimous opinion six months after upholding a trial judge’s ruling [...]

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Kids, plan your week with our new calendar

By admin | Published: August 6, 2012

Southwest Va. / Northeast, Tenn. — Check out The Zone on Page A12 in Friday’s Bristol Herald Courier. You’ll find these stories are more. Authors of tween books in Abingdon ABINGDON, Va. — Rebecca Williams Spindler of from Madison, Wis., whose family is originally from Gate City, Va., connected with Mountain Girl Press of Bristol, Va., a few [...]

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Mom Who Accidentally Smothered Baby Gets Shamed By Nancy Grace, Sets Self on Fire

By admin | Published: July 12, 2012

Toni Medrano did a horrible thing: she got drunk, passed out, and ended up smothering her newborn son. she faced two counts of manslaughter in the death of three-week-old Adrian. but Medrano’s case will not be going to trial — on July 2, she doused herself in a flammable liquid and set herself on fire. [...]

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Writing program for young black males tries to expand horizons

By admin | Published: July 9, 2012

Growing up, Preston Davis knew he could draw. But he didn’t know he could write. When he was about 7 years old, Davis and a cousin would go to the library and print out copies of”Dragon Ball Z”anime cartoon characters. The boys would practice drawing the characters freehand. “I realized I was good at it [...]

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Required reading

By admin | Published: June 24, 2012

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (Random House) For many of us — especially harried New Yorkers — there never seems to be enough time in the day. In her auspicious debut, Walker takes on that notion. the Earth’s rotation has suddenly slowed, making the days 25, then 26 hours, and gradually longer. [...]

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Analysis: Missouri preschool grants, intended to last 3 years, continued to flow for a decade

By admin | Published: June 18, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When written in the late 1990s, the guidelines for the new Missouri Preschool Project declared on their first page that grant applications would be funded for three years. The phrase “three-year period” was even highlighted with bold print, drawing special attention to the fact that the grants were intended as a [...]

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Small Change In Reading To Preschoolers Can Help Disadvantaged Kids Catch Up

By admin | Published: June 8, 2012

On a recent Monday morning in Washington, D.C., a group of 3-year-old preschoolers bumbled their way into a circle, more or less, on the rug of their classroom. It was time to read. The children sat cross-legged as their teacher, Mary-Lynn Goldstein, held high a book, Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. There was [...]

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Many lessons from
 disaster, reaction

By admin | Published: April 15, 2012

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution For many, the sinking of the Titanic marked a symbolic end to the Edwardian age, the time between the death of Queen Victoria and the beginning 
of World War I when the power of the British Empire reached its zenith. 
Ian Christopher Fletcher, a Georgia State University history professor 
 and co-author [...]

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Artful, American Essays From ‘When I Was A Child’

By admin | Published: March 11, 2012

by NPR Staff this text will be replaced In her new collection of essays, novelist Marilynne Robinson writes: “I find that the hardest work in the world — it may in fact be impossible — is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.” Robinson grew up in Idaho and [...]

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