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Few can argue about the need to improve the nation’s public education system. Unfortunately, those in charge of making those improvements -- notably, President Barack Obama and members of the... Democrats fear John McCain will pick a woman as his running mate; Blogger Say...
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has too many embarrassing in-house problems that have flared up recently. Secretary of State Condi Rice has said she's not interested.Will Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson get the... Whys be Good at Spelling?
Mark Twain once lobbied the Associated Press to use phonetic spelling: "The heart of our trouble is with our foolish alphabet. It doesn't know how to spell, and can't be taught."Maybe since so many people are spelling poorly (I know most of my fellow university students had... Iranian Interior Minister's Oxford Degree Apparently Fake, Riddled With Spell...
"Iran's new interior minister has raised an uproar among lawmakers and Iranian media over an apparently fake claim that he holds an honorary doctorate from Britain's Oxford University. To back his case, he's shown off a degree certificate riddled with spelling and grammar...Pupil gains marks for exam expletive
What the ....?"A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.The pupil,...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Nintendo: A Tool for Japan's Schools
Japan is truly taking interactive learning to a whole new level. English teachers in Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan are starting to use DS consoles as the latest tool andtechnology in their English...S Asians top US spelling contests
Elder daughter, Shruti, was first in the family to participate in the contest, but it was her 13-year-old brother, Sameer, who spelled his way to the coveted first prize - worth more than $40,000 - in this year's... Bay Area Teen Wins National Spelling Bee: Who Did You Bet On?
Update: Thirteen-Year-old Evan O'Dorney has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee. the word, by the way, was "serrefine", which is a pair fo small foreceps. O'Dorney has made a huge jump from last year, when he...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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1187 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
Txts Hrtng Ltrcy: WTF?
The analysts involved in this study go on to assign a singularverb to a plural noun, but we'll let that one slide; evidently the ubiquity of SMS as a means of communication is reducing Irish schoolkids to monosyllabism. "The fatal attraction between Irish young 'uns and...Amateurs working as journalists are giving rise to a new wave of 'citizen new...
LA Times unbiased(?????) look at citizen journalism and citizen news sources."Across the country "citizen newspapers" are springing up, full of promise, energy and atrocious spelling errors. They're largely written by unpaid, untrained and unedited citizen reporters, who say...Spelling as a Fun thing: 'Pinsetter' from Coudal: A Gift Idea
Pins and Buttons are not just a punk rock thing. How about using them to Spell? Neat! Neat! Neat by Coudal not by The Damned.Kazakhstan misspells bank on new money
The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word "bank" on its new notes. The bank plans to put the misprinted notes into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling....A Spelling Reproduction (E! Online)
" By Natalie Finn 1 hour, 9 minutes ago The Spelling dynasty is acquiring a new heir. E! News has confirmed that Tori Spelling " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Tori Spelling is expecting her first child with her husband of almost five months, actor Dean...Spelling out Tori's Troubles (E! Online)
" Tori Spelling " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Tori Spelling used to star in Lifetime Original Movies. Now she's living in one. In the latest high-drama development within the Spelling family feud, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum's plans for a televised...Tori Won't Inherit the Earth (E! Online)
" By Joal Ryan 1 hour, 42 minutes ago In the history of poor little rich girls, Tori Spelling " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Tori Spelling may be the poorest. At least that's the way her story is told in the new Us Weekly , which quotes sources as saying...NowPublic on Facebook
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