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  1. Edulinks

     Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
    Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Teachers, these sites should help you find something good for the youngest to the most advanced readers in your classroom.

  2. Teachers at Work

     No Laptops: Classroom Bans on Digital Devices are Spreading
    Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2013
    The new semester is starting, and a colleague proudly announced on Facebook that he is banning laptops, tablets, and cell phones in his classes because students are using them to go on Facebook. Other colleagues, who seem always to be trumpeting their support for the digital revolution on their own Facebooks, promptly "commented" their own plans to institute classroom bans on these attention-sapping devices.

  3. Word Count

     How Deliberate Practice Can Help Your Writing
    Mon Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2013
    I'll never forget the headline that led me to Cal Newport. It read: "How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and finishes by 5:30 pm." As a time-management zealot, I was hooked. And curious.

  4. Word Routes

     The Not-So-Fabulous "Phablet"
    Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Last week, the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year honors went to the Twitter-friendly hashtag. But another techie term emerged in a less prestigious category, Least Likely to Succeed. Finishing in a virtual tie with the much-maligned acronym YOLO was phablet, a blend of phone and tablet coined for new devices that are not quite smartphones and not quite tablet computers.

  5. Word Count

     I'll Take the Percent Increase for $84, Please
    Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2013
    When the US government finally signed a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, I was quickly confused about what the deal was. On the airwaves, I heard that part of the deal would be a 2% increase in payroll taxes, yet in print, I read that there was to be a 2 percentage point increase.

  6. Teachers at Work

     One Teacher's New Year's Resolutions
    Wed Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Michele Dunaway teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri (when she's not writing best-selling romance novels). As 2012 begins, she's been thinking about some New Year's resolutions for the classroom. Here she shares seven of them.

  7. Lesson Plans

     Science Words with Multiple Meanings
    Wed Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2013
    How can the Visual Thesaurus help students learn some interesting and polysemous science words?

  8. Word Count

     "However" You Want: Who's On First?
    Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2013
    A Florida correspondent writes: "My boss is obsessed with Strunk & White, and so tells me that I can never start a sentence with 'however' when using it to mean 'nevertheless.' I disagree with him and say that I can start a sentence with 'however' when I mean 'nevertheless' if I put a comma after the 'however.'"

  9. Word Count

     Bad Writing and Good Writing
    Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2013
    We all like good writing and dislike bad writing; we all want to write well, not badly. Yet the words "good" and "bad," when applied to any work of art are so much matters of taste that they often seem empty as definitions and arbitrary as categories.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     A "Super" Word, Traced to Syracuse
    Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2013
    "Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious," the sesquipedalian word made famous by Mary Poppins, has a peculiar and contentious history. Ben Zimmer told the story of his hunt for the word's origins, ending up in Syracuse, in his Word Routes column. Syracuse Post-Standard columnist Sean Kirst talked to Zimmer about the search in his latest column. Read it here.
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