When Jomo Rodger’s junior varsity football teammates give out goofy trophies at the end of the season, he gets the “If He Was Just a Little Bit taller, He’d Be a Big-Time Baller” award. It’s better than the “Most Likely to be Kicked in the Ass By the Coach” award, but not by much. And [...]
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If your school did not show President Obama’s education speech live, you can still see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZ6GrzWkw0 or read it at:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/obama-speech-to-schoolchi_n_278763.html.
The president felt it was important to talk to students since 3 out of 10 in the United States drop out from high school. That’s one of the highest dropout rates for any industrialized country. And not graduating [...]
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You know how you can’t be a Jedi unless you train as a Jedi apprentice and do everything the Jedi Masters tell you to do (well, almost everything, right Anakin?) so you’ll have the skills needed to resist when the Dark Side of the Force comes calling (right, Anakin?!!), well pretty soon your apprenticeship (i.e. high school) [...]
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Hey Ya’ll!
The 2nd Annual United Black Book Clubs of Pittsburgh’s Celebration of Reading Writing Contest is now underway with prizes up to $500 in cash! Topics are:
Middle School: Grades 7 -9
The hero of a tall tale is “larger than life,” even when the character is based on a real person, and tall tale heroes solve [...]
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