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Education > Teachers & Administrators Academic freedom and teacher choice in curriculums

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California Education Code (60210) states that "the school board shall adopt basic instructional material.." and that the material adopted is "factually correct and incorporate principles of instruction reflective of current and confirmed research."Board selection, albeit through teacher input, allows a detailed analysis of th... More..

Home & Garden > Buying & Selling Homes Is Greenspan to be blamed for the mortgage mess?

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Lately I have been observing the turmoil in our real estate market. While trying to make some sense of it, I realize that Alan Greenspan has not been duly blamed for creating the turmoil.Right before and especially after the September 2001 attacks on NYC, Greenspan lowered federal interest rates to all time low. Granted it wa... More..

Education > High School Math & Sciences Why it is important to study math in high school

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Scientists widely believe that mathematics is the language of the nature. Research in language acquisition suggests that children, even if exposed to a foreign language, learn through practice. Elementary language skills (basic words of communication e.g., boy, girl, man, he, I..) are learned mainly by observation and mimicki... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Baseball Thoughts on the steroid controversy in baseball

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The Mitchell report has once again focused attention on cheating in baseball. Cheating is not only morally wrong but also fraught with unknown physical, mental, and other side effects. Drugs in sports are somewhat similar to academic cheating. In both cases, the performance of the cheater is likely to enhance. Although writin... More..

Personal Finance > Credit Cards How to maximize credit card incentives while minimizing debt

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Credit cards are the most convenient way of paying for every day purchases and bills. Unfortunately, people tend to over spend. Credit card companies capitalize on this spending weakness by mailing millions of pieces of 'special offers' to their consumers. However, you don't have to succumb to these offers. I have compiled an... More..

Computers & Technology > Phone Buying Tips Assessing cell phone family plans

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If your Sprint cell phone contract expires in the near future, get ready for a rude surprise. Sprint 'rewards' its past customers, by providing loyalty credit dollars towards the purchase of new phones under renewed contracts. One would expect to get the benefit of this loyalty credit, by getting a brand new phone at a reduc... More..

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2. Is Greenspan to be blamed for the mortgage mess?
3. Academic freedom and teacher choice in curriculums
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