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Legislative notebook: Legislature approves freezing college tuitions
By Danielle Killey and Don Davis A bill funding Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota systems freezes tuitions. Senators passed the bill 44-22 and the House 76-56 ...
5/17/13 at 8:45 PM Legislative notebook: House, Senate look to the sun for power 5/8/13 at 8:29 AM
Legislative notebook: Bullying bill OK'd 5/6/13 at 7:10 PM
Adventures in Subbing: Inner City School pt 2
Part one was about the hoopla; this post is about the nuts and bolts of the student struggles in North Minneapolis. When the 6th and 7th graders I taught this day eventually got down to work (which t...
2/14/13 at 10:03 AM Adventures in Subbing: Inner City School pt 1 2/6/13 at 11:20 AM
Adventures in Subbing: The Achievement Gap 2/1/13 at 8:57 AM
Don't throw $$ in the trash!
By Jo Colvin jcolvin@echopress.com Box tops arent just from cereal anymore. They can be clipped from Kleenex and broccoli and soup and milk. They can even be found on underwear packaging. Best of all...
11/19/12 at 12:25 PM
Letting Go, Letting Life
The trek was over. I got back to Zhuhai, my home in China for the past eleven months. But though I was done trekking, I wasn't through with traveling: I had 48 left in China to ready for a long journ...
10/6/12 at 9:21 AM Tai Chi: What Goes Around Comes Around 9/8/12 at 8:20 AM
Bamboo U 5/5/12 at 8:53 AM
"Real Food" vs Processed Food - Areavoices Digest #89
So as I sat the other day spraying cheese in a can on my snack crackers, I began to think "Can this be real cheese?" Well the answer is "probably not." First clue: any cheese that's spelled with a "z...
9/19/12 at 2:16 PM Getting your school news published the easy way - Areavoices Digest #87 8/22/12 at 1:34 PM
More from the Oil Boom, Junkfest and a Little Something for Teachers - Areavoices Digest #83 7/25/12 at 11:53 AM
Free Homebuyer Education Class
The Village Homebuyer Education program is one of several services we provide as part of The Village Family Service Centers Financial Resource Center, or FRC. The Homebuyer Education Seminar includes...
6/13/12 at 4:12 PM
'Catching Catfish' class set for Feb. 15 at Stanford Center in GF
If the idea of doing battle with a big Red River catfish is sounding pretty good right about now, theres an opportunity to learn more about catching them next Wednesday night. Grand Forks catfish g...
2/8/12 at 4:10 PM Not too early to think about North Dakota Hunter Education courses 12/15/11 at 7:13 PM
Social media use: the new risk factor?
Doctors already query patients about whether they drink, use tobacco or are up to date on their immunizations. Should they also be asking about the patient's use of the social media? The question was...
12/28/11 at 1:11 PM Paging Dr. Google 2/8/11 at 1:24 PM
A new paradigm for pre-meds? 8/6/10 at 6:33 AM
What If Grocery Stores Were Run Like K-12 Schools
What ifgrocery storeswere run like K-12 schools? The government would assign you to a local grocery store. Groceries would be "free." You'd pay for them through your taxes. You wouldn't have as many o...
8/4/11 at 8:56 AM But What About The Social? 7/24/11 at 6:48 PM
Statement of Letter of Intent to Homeschool 7/23/11 at 8:52 AM
