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Educators Invited to Submit Priorities
Milwaukee, Wis., For teachers and school administrators who would like to offer the next president of the United States and his administration a list of K-12 education priorities for America, here’s your chance. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) invites educators from across the country to help shape our nation’s K-12 education agenda by participating in a five-minute, three-question survey available on the ASQ Web site K-12 Priority Survey.

Research conducted during the past six years by Dr Voldis Kudliskis, of Teignmouth, for Exeter University indicates that sixth form students can benefit from aspects of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) when studying at A level. His research involved Psychology students but there are clear benefits for all subjects.

Boston, MA and Universal City, CA, August 13, 2008-- With his insatiable curiosity and a Daytime Emmy® Award for "Outstanding Children's Animated Program" in tow, America's favorite little monkey embarks on a brand new set of (mis)-adventures this fall when the third season of CURIOUS GEORGE premieres on PBS KIDS. George, The Man with the Yellow Hat, and their friends are off on an exploration of the world around them, introducing young viewers to Earth Science concepts such as recycling, composting, weather patterns, solar power, and agriculture along the way.

(New York, NY) - The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), announces the release of "Tearing Down Obstacles to Democracy & Protecting Minority Voters", a guide which highlights a core feature of the Voting Rights Act -- the Section 5 preclearance provision.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Today's students are part of a cohort called "digital natives." They’ve grown up with MTV, video games, e-mail and instant messaging. Digital technology has surrounded them from the time they were infants. They want information fast, and they’re experts at multitasking.

Explorer, RiverQuest's newly constructed 90-foot, 150-passenger hybrid boat left Bayou La Batre, Alabama on Sunday, August 3rd and expects to arrive into the Pittsburgh Pool of the Ohio River at 10am on Wednesday August 13th after a 1,600 mile journey through nine states.

-- Here’s a Great Opportunity to Get the Funds You Need For That Exciting Educational Project You’ve Had in Mind for Years! --
Attention educators: You might be surprised to learn just how easy it can be to enhance and expand your science or math curriculum with a Science and Math Improvement Grant from the Toshiba America Foundation (TAF). It’s a terrific way to start your school year with a fun and exciting science or math project that you may have wanted to do for years, but just didn’t quite have the budget! Best of all, TAF will help you with every step of the process it takes to get your grant, including tips on how to apply and much more.

Calgary, Canada – A Harris Interactive study finds 40-percent of recent college graduates have over $10-thousand dollars in student loan debt. Over 20-percent owe more than $5-thousand dollars on credit cards before age 25.

Robert Thurman, whom the New York Times called  "The Dalai Lama's man in America" officially supporting  Candle for Tibet, the world's largest single action for a free Tibet—  to begin on eve of Beijing Olympics opening ceremony

Supporters Upload Videos onto the LoyalTV.com ‘Causes’ Category
NEW YORK (July 31, 2008) – With the Olympic games set to begin in early August, all eyes will be on Beijing as the world’s finest athletes compete for Olympic gold. LoyalTV, however, has teamed up with ‘Candle for Tibet’ (CFT) to divert some of this attention to what it deems to be a compelling cause – a free Tibet. Together with supporters, CFT is planning a worldwide light protest to coincide with the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games.

Advocates for children are demanding that Alloy Media and Marketing immediately remove ads for prescription drugs from its Channel One website. Channel One, the controversial in-school news program that makes viewing ads a compulsory part of the school day for grades six through twelve, was purchased by Alloy in 2007.

Classroom technology leader Calypso Control Systems and K-12 enterprise software development leader SchoolView Technologies have partnered to develop a single, fully-integrated platform for managing school technologies - from classroom A/V technology to bell, clock, public address, digital signage and emergency alert systems. Unlike any solution currently available, the integration of SchoolView Technologies’ CampusSV™ and Calypso’s ezRoom™ Classroom bundle produces a comprehensive school and classroom management solution that embodies the vision of the 21st Century School.

Parents throughout the country, taking advantage of anti-bullying laws, are suing schools and winning. Judgments against schools are routinely in the hundreds of thousands-or even millions!- of dollars. A school in Tampa, Florida was recently ordered to pay $4,000,000 to parents for having failed to stop their child from being bullied.

Dr. Lynn Flowers has recently been named Associate Director of Research & Development for Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, an internationally recognized leader in literacy research, remediation, and professional development. Dr. Flowers was previously on the faculty in the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Along with her academic background, Dr. Flowers is also a licensed psychologist and
author.

On August 21 the National Wildlife Federation will release its Campus Environment 2008 Report Card. Grading colleges and universities on their sustainability efforts, the report card is the first comprehensive analysis of the greening of America’s campuses since 2001.