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Math-Drills.com is a great "go-to" resource to print out those all important basic facts worksheets.
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PEN of Florida
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PEN Website
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Schools Taking Part in Campaign to Give Swine-Flu Vaccine
Educators, health officials facing logistical challenge
By Lisa Fine
Thousands of American schools are mobilizing to ensure that students are vaccinated against swine flu in the coming weeks, a task complicated by parental fears and overlap with vaccine programs for seasonal flu.
Public-health officials say the swine-flu season is in full swing, and in fact has never stopped since the new virus, known as H1N1, was identified in April. Children have been among the groups hardest hit. A total of 86 children in the United States have died from swine flu, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week. Forty-one states are reporting widespread swine flu, the Atlanta-based CDC said.
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Florida Prepaid tuition costs skyrocket
Posted by Scott Travis on October 19, 2009 04:00 PM
Florida Prepaid is advertised as an affordable way to save for college, but it's not seeming so affordable anymore.
The Orlando Sentinel's Luis Zaragoza reports that the cost for the "differential tuition" plan has increased 300 percent, from $4,600 to nearly $20,000 this year for an infant. That's in addition to the base tuition rate plan, which is $15,900 this year. You need both plans if you want to be assured of covering the total tuition of your child's college in 18 years.
The higher cost is a result of a state law passed this year that allows universities to raise tuition up to 15 percent a year every year until Florida, which has among the lowest tuition rates in the country, reaches the national average. Right now, tuition is about $4,200 in Florida, while the national average exceeds $6,600.
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A Moo-Moo Here, and Better Test Scores Later
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
Published:
October 19, 2009
On the bus ride to the farm, the children sang
rounds of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and a boy yelled, "I love pumpkin pie!"
But it soon became
clear that this was a field "study"- as the teachers called it - not a field
"trip," and the 75 Harlem kindergartners were going not only for a glimpse of
rural life, but to rack up extra points on standardized tests.
"I want to get
smarter," 5-year-old Brandon Neal said.
"I want to do better on homework and tests,"
added Julliana Jimenez, one of his classmates.
New York State's English and math exams include
several questions each year about livestock, crops and the other staples of the
rural experience that some educators say flummox city children, whose knowledge
of nature might begin and end at Central Park. On the state English test this
year, for instance, third graders were asked questions relating to chickens and
eggs. In math, they had to count sheep and horses.
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Anclote Elementary rewards budding writers
By Michele Miller, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
NEW PORT RICHEY
Preparations for the Author's Tea had Beatrix Pulido and her cohorts rolling out the red carpet - literally - and setting an October table for 64 in the cafeteria at Anclote Elementary School. Smiling plastic jack-o'-lanterns and construction-paper autumn leaves adorned the long tables that were covered with forest green tablecloths. There were snacks nicely laid out: animal crackers, pretzels and cartons of juice along with a smattering of candy corn and chocolate kisses.
This was all for the 32 award-winning authors in kindergarten to fifth grade who would walk down a red paper carpet as their "buddies" in the audience offered up a table drumroll and sang a simple song that Pulido (a.k.a. the "Reading Lady") taught them just minutes before.
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