GSN is holding its 2nd annual “National Vocabulary Championship.” High school students compete via a qualifying exam either online or at a participating school nation wide. Thanks to USA Today, American Heritage Dictionary, Sony, VAIO, Mead, Chipotle, JetBlue and others students will be competing to win $100,000 in tuition money.
“Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico’s public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. history. ”
Add a new T-shirt to the “banned list.” Anything with the American Flag.
”Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.”
In the era of college tuition prices skyrocketing it pays to hit the books and hit the college financing research center.
“Parents are building up their college bankrolls by turbocharging savings. And while Congress reshapes college lending in response to this year’s scandals, students and parents are figuring out new ways to find and negotiate the best loan terms.”
State Senator Ernie Chambers of Nebraska has taken the fight against frivolous lawsuits to a “higher” court.
Senator Chambers has filed a lawsuit against God.
“Chambers lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.
The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of alias, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is omnipresent.
In the lawsuit, Chambers said he’s tried to contact God numerous times.”
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| LCD Panel | Type | 20.1″ Wide Color TFT Active Matrix LCD |
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“The Thomas J. Pappas schools for homeless kids are no longer needed, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors decided Friday, and the students should be mainstreamed into public schools in their communities.
In a special meeting, the county’s top elected leaders said the students would get better social services, better educations and ultimately better futures if they were not isolated from their peers. ”