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February is Marfan Awareness Month! So What is Marfan Syndrome?
Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects the body’s connective tissue. Connective tissue holds all the body’s cells, organs and tissue together, and it also…
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What DO You Say? Responses to Students’ Difficult Questions
What does gay mean? How can she be your mom? She looks like a boy! Responding to questions about LGBT topics Most of the things…
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The Right Fight for Education
LDF Senior Education Policy Counsel Janel George, along with Joseph Bishop and Dwanna Nicole , writes in a Huffington Post blog why it is imperative for Congress…
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The Business Case for Private-Sector Engagement in Youth Mentoring
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 29 /CSRwire/ – EY and MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR) together released a report “Mentoring: at the crossroads of education, business and…
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The most important meal of the day
With just 22 students between kindergarten and Grade 6, the Wandering River School is one of the smallest facilities in Alberta’s Northern Lights School District. Students…
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Quality Teachers in Every School are Central to Equal Educational Opportunity
LDF commends the U.S. Senate HELP Committee for advancing reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Passed on the heels of the Civil…
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Saving Lives Through Stem Cell Donations
by Omar Siddiqi, MD I am not a stranger to illness. During my medical training, I met many patients on the worst day of their lives.…
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Service Dog Gives Karley Greatest Gift of All – Independence
By Karley Independence is such a powerful word, one that is often taken for granted. Being a teenager, like other teenagers, I want as much…
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45 Science Educators Embark on Yearlong Professional Learning Fellowship in 2014-2015 NSTA New Science Teacher Academy
ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) New Science Teacher Academy, a yearlong program focused on encouraging and supporting early-career science educators, announced the selection…
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MLK’s words just as relevant today
By Morris Dees This Martin Luther King Day is a special one. We’re on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March, perhaps King’s…
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Retired Rally Laptops Find New, Happy Homes
At Rally, we love our Apple laptops. Typically we use them day in and day out for three years or more, after which they enjoy…
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Youthful Maturity
Contrary to the popular saying, youth is not wasted on the young. In the spring of 2013, FCA leaders at Scullen Middle School shared their…
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