Category: Children
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New Education Bill
(Surprisingly) Congress passed a new education bill last week. Forget “No Child Left Behind” rolled to in 2001 and embrace “Every Student Succeeds Act“. So what are the changes? Testing will continue, but STATES – not the U.S. government – will now decide how to use the results in evaluating teachers and schools. The new law encourages…
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Year of Yes
This is not some game or new trendy thing to do. “Year of Yes” is a memoir by Shonda Rhimes (yes, that Shonda Rhimes). In Year of Yes, Shonda shares tips from her own enlightenment and how she changed her whole life. I don’t read many memoirs but I plan to read this one, every single page! …
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Top 10 Gadgets
Yahoo published the Top 10 Most Wanted Tech Gadgets for 2014. Familiar names like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Sony sit atop of the list. I’m pretty sure that gifting any one of these items to hard-to-choose-for relatives will do just fine. Or, if you can’t pay the entire cost, a gift card will do just fine!…
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I Can Be a Computer Engineer
Mattel recently released a dual Barbie book titled: I Can Be an Actress/I Can Be a Computer Engineer. Cool! There’s a national focus on Girls and STEM, so this can only be good, right? WRONG! One blogger sums it up this way: “Despite having ruined her own laptop, her sister’s laptop, and the library’s computers, not to mention…
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Made with Code
Google just launched an initiative, Made with Code, to get girls interested in computer programing. The tech giant has set aside $50 million for the program. “Made with Code will organize events where girls will be invited to do programming together and discover that computer programme codes can be used to make and print bracelets…
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