The U.S. Department of Education has announced the recipients of $115 million in three-year grants to promote the teaching of American history. The money will reach 124 school districts in 40 states, plus the District of Columbia and American Samoa.
“The Teaching American History grant program aims to enhance teachers’ understanding of U.S. history through intensive professional development, including study trips to historic sites and mentoring with professional historians and other experts,” the department’s press release explains. “Projects are required to partner with organizations that have broad knowledge of American history, such as libraries, museums, nonprofit historical or humanities organizations, and higher education institutions.”
The South Burlington school district in Vermont, for one, is getting nearly $1 million under the program, as is the Hamilton City School District in Hamilton, Ohio (where, incidentally, the federal No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in January 2002).
Meanwhile, the Goshen Community School Corp.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Monday morning was a big day across the city of Memphis. Kids of all ages went back to class for the 2010 -2011 school year.
Memphis Mayor AC Wharton stopped by several schools to give some inspiration reminding MCS students how important their education is. “This is your first day but were counting on you; it’s big time for them,” Mayor Wharton said.
Across town MCS Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash made several stops including Cordova Elementary.
“You’ve got to be involved in your child’s learning and a partner in education throughout his or her life,” Dr. Cash said.
Cash said the first day of school for MCS has gone off with few problems.
“Good start, a couple of classrooms are hot,” said Dr. Cash.
Cash said with the heat came strains on the school systems air conditioning.
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Ethan Buhr, a first year postdoctorial student, knows that “there is a line between trying to take on too much for a research project to be feasible” and “trying too little and having a project be boring.”
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Dr. Ethan Buhr extracts DNA from the eye to study the effects of the brain’s master circadian clock.
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Members of Buhr’s ophthalmology team study reports from experiments. They hope to find a way of resetting the brain’s master circadian clock.
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Buhr uses the UV light to spot different DNA.
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Buhr looks
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In the past couple of weeks, two people who commented on this blog asked me to remove their comments. Their requests inspired me to share these cautions:
- Don’t share anything you don’t want a potential employer to find. The first request for me to remove a comment was from someone who had mentioned contacting an attorney about her dismissal from a job. She had included her full name after the comment. With her job search ending in closed doors, she feared that an Internet search was leading potential employers to her comment. That’s a reasonable fear. Employers are not eager to hire people who hire attorneys.
- Don’t share anything you don’t want the entire world to find. The second request was from someone who had included her email address in her comment.
- Don’t share anything that makes you look mean, pig-headed, or supremely pompous. Peop
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Pencils, pens and notebooks are what school-age children were grabbing at a back to school event.
Buying school supplies can get expensive, so one children’s agency was looking to help out.
Case-Management hosted its Annual Back To School Drive Friday, at its facility on Alice Avenue in South Memphis.
The group collected donations all year to make sure low-income students went back to class ready to learn. Volunteers said the kids are happy to get anything they can.
“They’re extremely grateful. It really helps them out. Kids have to go back to school, and many of them are grateful for what they can get” said Stephanie McKinney. Organizers say about 150 students came out to pick up supplies.