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NHN: 5/31/05 NETHAPPENINGS NEWSLETTER #28
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Written by Classroom Teacher Alan Haskvitz
1997 National Teacher's Hall of Fame
All USA Today First Team Teacher
Reader's Digest Hero in Education
Cherry International Award for Outstanding Teachers
1994 National Middle Level Teacher of the Year (NCSS)
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Edited by Karen Ellis Founder of ECP
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/AboutUs/
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IN THIS ISSUE
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- What is working in bilingual teaching. |
- Fun links to sites that enable students to create webpages, a band, |
SITES YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW EXISTED - Search Eight Search Sites at once |
- Are American Schools Safe? |
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IN THE NEWS top
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What is working in bilingual
teaching.
The bilingual and multicultural education establishment maintains that focusing on children's native
language and culture leads to higher self-esteem and ultimately better performance. But denying them
English
proficiency -- which brings better jobs and higher salaries -- is unlikely to achieve those goals.
Testing drives people nuts
An Article About What is Working in
Teaching
non-English children
What is the safest car? Not SUVs
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ECP - INTERESTING UPDATES
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Geography meets poetry
Video Classroom, a searchable online
library, offers more than 200 video and audio examples of classrooms around the country successfully and
creatively integrating technologies into their curriculums.
PowerPoint Linking and
Looping Tutorials turn those powerpointless presentations into something good.
Database of
Adverse
Drug Reactions
description: "Canadian marketed health products of pharmaceuticals, biologics (including blood products
and therapeutic and diagnostic vaccines), natural health products, and radiopharmaceuticals."
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SITES YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW EXISTED
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Topic Hunter Search Eight
Search
Sites at once
All About Bubbles
Online mysteries that
teach
Looking for cheap regular or diesel fuel prices on
summer vacation route?
Road Trip Roadside America
Americans love to drive, and Doug Kirby, Ken Smith, Mike Wilkins have been tracking the rather unique (and
sometimes, quite bizarre) elements of the roadside landscape for more than 20 years.
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FACTOIDS
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Public Schools are Extremely Safe and Getting Safer: The number of homicides in public schools is down 60%
from a decade ago. More importantly, despite children spending a large part of their day at school, less
than
1% of all homicides of school-aged children occur at school. The number of students who are victims of crime
while at or on the way to and from school is down 56% in the past decade and is at its lowest level since
the
federal government started recorded such statistics. SCC
U.S. 4th Graders Among the Best in the World in Reading Literacy: In an international comparison with 35
countries, only Sweden, England, and Dutch students scored statistically higher than United States students
in
reading
literacy test scores for 4th graders. IRL
U.S. leads the world in the number of students enrolling post-secondary education: United States far exceeds
any other nation in the world in the percentage of students of college age who enroll in higher education.
DEF
Leadership Quotes by John Quincy Adams:
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader."
Thanks for reading and have a great summer !!
Al
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