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- Thinking in Mind - a Canadian teacher's blog about building a history curriculum around innovative technology tools.
- History Tech Social Studies, tech integration and other useful stuff
- Bring Social Studies Alive A blog about making history interactive and exciting.
- Teaching the Civil War with Technology
- (De)constructions - Personal Web Page covering research and teaching activities (European Dimension of Education, Curriculum, Educational Administration & Educational Policy Studies)
- American Cultures 2.0
- The History Teacher's Attic
- History is Elementary
- The History Channel This Is Not...
- MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators (Secondary) Topics related to economics and financial literacy.
- Viva La Historia - a nice blog with teacher and students inputs
- Speaking of History - an 8th grade American history teacher in Liberty, Missouri discusses education, technology and history
- Back to the Future... No, I mean PAST! - A Middle School History and Research teacher/blogger travels back in time to discuss class projects, technology, and shares photos of his student's journeys!
Fan review of Remember Me screening *spoilers*
Source: thinkingofrob.com I’m not good with reviews so I won’t even attempt to make one. A friend of mine who attended the screening has agreed to write a review and share it with us. As soon as she’s done writing one I will re-post it here for everyone to read.12 reasons unemployment is going to (at least) 12 percent
12 reasons unemployment is going to (at least) 12 percent Posted by: James Pethokoukis (Reuters) Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg, formerly of Merrill Lynch, thinks the unemployment rate is going to at least 12 percent, maybe even 13 percent. Optimists, Rosenberg explains, underestimate the incredible damage done to the labor market during this downturn. And even before this downturn, the economy was not generating jobs in huge numbers.The Absolutely Worst Bill Ever
The Absolutely Worst Bill Ever By Peter Ferrara on 11.11.09 @ 6:08AM "The Worst Bill Ever." That is the title the always calm and rational Wall Street Journal put on its editorial on November 1 about the government health care takeover bill that passed the House last week on virtually a party line vote, 220-215. But even this label doesn't fully communicate the outright assault on the American people involved in this legislation.Who Killed California?
by Troy Senik http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california My apologies for having nothing originally in this post. The text was here but didn't show up. Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages. It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your mind up what to believe before reading.Texas begins $3 billion quest to cure cancer
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas gave birth to the modern oil industry, invented the handheld calculator and sent man to the moon. But can the Lone Star State cure cancer? Texas is ready to try by investing $3 billion over the next decade in cancer research and prevention, which would make the state the gatekeeper of the second largest pot of cancer research dollars in the country, behind only the National Cancer Institute.Gotcha! Why Online Anonymity May Be Fading
by Kevin Whitelaw
When Rosemary Port, a New York blogger, used her anonymous posts to call a New York fashion model a "skank" and a "ho," she had no idea that her name would soon be plastered across the pages of the New York Post.
In Port's case, it took a court order to reveal her identity, but the Internet, which gained a reputation for being an anarchic and wild place in its early years, is becoming less and less anonymous in many ways.
Anonymity Backlash
Some of the change is cultural.
From THe UK independent on health care
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ian-birrell-why-i-dont-believe-that-the-nhs-is-sacrosanct-1775088.html Ian Birrell: Why I don't believe that the NHS is sacrosanct In this heartfelt polemic, based on his family's experiences in the health service, our writer argues that it suffers from deep flaws – and we are wrong to ignore them David Sandison Ian Birrell's 15-year-old daughter Iona with her mother, Linnet enlarge It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever flawed gene or missing protein might be the cause of my daughter's troubled life, with her terrible seizures, her blindness, her inability to walk or talk or eat unaided. Over the past 15 years, there have been many such attempts to identify her condition.A Nation Driven by Small Business & Other Myths
US Economic Myths Bite the Dust http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/14-6 The Great Recession is allowing some widely held beliefs about the US economy – which were the source of much evangelism over the last few decades – to run up against a reality check. This is to be expected, since the United States has been the epicentre of the storm of policy blunders that caused the world recession. This month my CEPR [Center for Economic and Policy Research] colleagues John Schmitt and Nathan Lane showed that the United States is not the nation of small businesses that it is regularly dressed up to be for electoral campaign speeches and editorials.Medicare for All Is a Killer
Medicare for All Is a Killer By Peter Ferrara America's Left/Liberals, and their spokesman Barack Obama, insist that everything about health care would be wonderful if only the government would take it over. Their preferred plan, embraced by Obama, is to throw Medicare open to everyone, and then over time force everyone into it. They say if you have employer-provided insurance, you can keep it.
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