Give the FCAT an F

Source: Tampa Bay Online

Kick the FCAT to the curb. Do it with malice, and break all the No. 2 pencils for good measure. We need to give up on this idea that testing will solve our schools' problems. As a mother whose two children attended Hillsboro ...
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Remember John Hancock: Handwriting camp teaches a key skill

Source: GoSanAngelo

SAN ANGELO, Texas — Penmanship, or the ability to use a writing instrument to write, is an art. As with any art form, it takes lots of skill and practice to master it. We spend a vast majority of our childhood learning to write and ...
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Opinion: No Place Is Home

Source: The New York Times

Charlottesville, Va. “WHERE is your home?” the consular officer asked me. I was 13 years old. My parents and I had left Iran eight years earlier, at the onset of the 1979 revolution. Since then, they had bought a house and a business — a small roadsi ...
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Meredith Hines-Dochterman wrote a new blog post: The write way: Waukon student named national handwriting champ

Source: The Gazette

East Elementary School student Sophie Halverson was recently named the Grand National Champion in the fourth-grade division of the Zaner-Bloser 21st Annual National Handwriting Contest. Her entry was selected ...
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The tyrant's lament

Source: National Post

Readers of Anne Carson's Antigonick, her beautiful and harrowing reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, may find it odd that Antigone and her sister Ismene begin the play by discussing Hegel, the German philosopher born some 20-odd centuries after ...
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Art Confronts Issues of War And Bigotry

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Peter Plagens Lehmann Maupin Gallery 540 W. 26th St. and 201 Chrystie St. (212) 255-2923 and (212) 254-0054 Sonnabend Gallery 536 W. 22nd St., (212) 627-1018 Through June 23 Gibert Prousch (b. 1943) and George Passmor ...
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Sotheby to auction Jobs Atari memo, Apple I motherboard

Source: MacNN

The handwritten memo acts as an addendum to the report Jobs prepared while working at the company on the game later known as Atari's World Cup Football. The document dates from around two years prior to the start of A ...
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The Art of Ink is Back

Source: The Huffington Post

The art of ink is back. The creative act of the cursive script with lavish loops and lines bleeding into textured paper is returning to true desktops all over the world. Pen makers and stationers are seeing a significant ...
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Romney Donors Have Chance to Dine With Trump

Source: CNBC

For a mere $3 donation to help elect Mitt Romney, donors could find themselves dining with real estate mogul Donald Trump. The fundraising ask, sponsored by Romney Victory Fund, the joint fundraising effort by Romney and the Republican National C ...
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