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		<title>NCLB Waiver Cheat Sheet: How to Win in the Second Round</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the clock ticking toward the Feb. 28 second-round deadline for states to apply for a waiver under No Child Left Behind, states are scrambling to glean insight from the first-round results so they can get their proposals in tip-top shape. You can dig through the voluminous amount of documents that the Education Department posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-advisory/nclb-waiver-cheat-sheet-how-to-win-in-the-second-round</link>
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		<title>3.8 million UK children without a book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study by the National Literacy Trust (NLT) has discovered that some 3.8 million children in the UK do not own their own book.This number is increasing too. Seven years ago just one in ten children did not own their own book while now this number stands at one in three.Expressing their concern at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-notes/3-8-million-uk-children-without-a-book</link>
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		<title>Bad Teacher Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All week last week we kept hearing about spirit week. There was a Harry Potter Day, some other stuff, and a Bad Teacher Day. They announced them every day. I wondered what the hell Bad Teacher Day was, but I don&#8217;t wear costumes to work, so I ignored it. Then some of my colleagues started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-articles/bad-teacher-day</link>
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		<title>Boogie Down to Raise Funds for U.Va. Children’s Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of our students are only here for four years before they strike out on their own. But so often, they leave behind a legacy that will have a lasting impact on the community and they usually do so just because they can, and because its fun, and because it means something to them. On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-notes/boogie-down-to-raise-funds-for-u-va-children%e2%80%99s-hospital</link>
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		<title>Rushing to Get a Graduate Degree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ive met a lot of college students who assume that they must slog their way through graduate school to enjoy a successful and lucrative career. What is troubling, however, is how little information young adults know about what is involved in earning a graduate degree that can be expensive and a huge time commitment. No [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-advisory/rushing-to-get-a-graduate-degree</link>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s roundup: Northwestern allows first points of the season in win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Sun Staff Reports FOOTBALL Northwestern beat host Reginald F. Lewis, 20-6, and clinched the Baltimore City Division II football title. But Friday&#8217;s victory was bittersweet, as the Wildcats were 20 minutes away from tying a state record when the defense did something it hadn&#8217;t done all year — give up a touchdown. With eight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-articles/fridays-roundup-northwestern-allows-first-points-of-the-season-in-win</link>
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		<title>Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a video for Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, which is now available in paperback. For more on the book, you can browse the book using Google Preview or visit the site jonathansoffer.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-notes/ed-koch-and-the-rebuilding-of-new-york-city</link>
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		<title>iPads in class energize kids as teachers test how to use them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For 10-year-old Kaitlyn Chin, the first few weeks of school came packed with holidaylike anticipation — especially when the fourth-grader at Legacy Academy in Elizabeth saw boxes delivered to the building. &#8220;I would always hope they were the iPads,&#8221; she says. And finally, they arrived — a wave of tablet devices that, combined with other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-advisory/ipads-in-class-energize-kids-as-teachers-test-how-to-use-them</link>
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		<title>Functional Web Design for Today’s News Audiences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a self-directed course, you can start and stop whenever you like, progressing entirely at your own pace and going back as many times as you want to review the material. Creating a news and information website that effectively attracts readers and then keeps them coming back is daunting. While Web design and online storytelling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-notes/functional-web-design-for-today%e2%80%99s-news-audiences</link>
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		<title>Travel abroad with the Davis College Alumni Association</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join the WVU Davis College Alumni Association on a tour of agricultural and culinary attractions in Germany and France: WHO: Anyone with an interest in agriculture, culinary arts, or European travel is welcome. WHEN: June 2 10, 2012 WHERE: The tour will visit Frankfurt, Strasbourg and Freiburg, as well as the surrounding areas in Germany [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-advisory/travel-abroad-with-the-davis-college-alumni-association</link>
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		<title>EKG technician training: a necessity for your successful career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of persistence and training to become a professional EKG technician. Not only that, the work of a technician is very important and there is no room for mistakes so it requires you to be well trained and qualified. If you are well trained with proper EKG technician training you get an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-notes/ekg-technician-training-a-necessity-for-your-successful-career</link>
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		<title>Simple – yet effective tips from Karishma, Band 8 in IELTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after we contacted the winners of IELTS results competition in December 2011, many of them replied and sent their advice, to help people taking the IELTS exam in 2012. The tips below came from Karishma Singh, an Indian IELTS test taker who prepared at home and scored Band 8. Even though I did not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/school-notes/simple-%e2%80%93-yet-effective-tips-from-karishma-band-8-in-ielts</link>
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		<title>Big Race to Top Problems in Hawaii, Florida, N.Y., Says Ed. Dept.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In its first official assessment of $4 billion in Race to the Top grants, the U.S. Department of Education today commended the 12 winners for working hard to implement the first year of their reform plans—but raised specific red flags about the pace of change in Hawaii, New York, and Florida. Overall, the majority of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amadeushighschool.com/uncategorized/big-race-to-top-problems-in-hawaii-florida-n-y-says-ed-dept</link>
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		<title>No Teacher Layoffs? Well, Um, Thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in a number of years, Mayor Bloomberg is not trying to scare us into submission not calling for teacher layoffs in the upcoming budget. Well, thank goodness for small favors, I guess. In the dark days of January, we&#8217;ll take what we can get.I suppose Mayor Bloomberg realized that he&#8217;d cried [...]]]></description>
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