[ECP] K12 Newsletters Headlines and Resources

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  • Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:44:57 -0500

Happy Friday! 



-- Teach History With Music
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/iecmusic.html

Winter's Bone
Bred and Buttered: Ozark Women On Screen 
Daniel Woodrell, who wrote the novel Winter's Bone, lives in nearby West Plains 
where Marideth Sisco lives and works as a writer and teacher. She has been 
active on the Missouri folk music scene for many years. Gordon McCann, an 
authority on Ozark music and dance, and it seems that he helped put the film 
makers in touch with the West Plains musicians. 

-- Did you catch Diane Ravitch on the Daily Show Last night? If you missed it 
you can catch it again.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/k12-school-reform-accountability.html


-- This is What the Internet Looks Like
http://www.peer1.com/blog/2011/03/map-of-the-internet-2011/

-- Liver, Not Brain, May Be Origin of Alzheimer?s Plaques ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 
2011) 
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303134435.htm>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303134435.htm

-- 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
By Lev Grossman Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011
<http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-2,00.html>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-2,00.html

-- Cool Math Games: how to integrate math and computers
Cool K-12 Math Games, Lesson Plans and Math Avoidance Strategies in Mathematics.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/math.html


-- This week's edition of the Scout Report is out:

1. EPA: Cleaning Up Our Land, Water and Air [pdf]
http://www.epa.gov/cleanup/
2. Chronic Poverty Research Centre
http://www.chronicpoverty.org/page/index
3. Automobile in American Life and Society
http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/
4. Central Connecticut State University: Digital Collections
http://content.library.ccsu.edu/
5. Pew Research Center: Labor Unions Seen as Good for Workers, Not U.S. 
Competitiveness [pdf]
http://people-press.org/report/705/
6. USC Shoah Foundation Institute [Real Player]
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/
7. Footnote.com
http://www.footnote.com/
8. American Association for State and Local History
http://www.aaslh.org/
9. From Crossroads to Capital: The Founding and Early History of Raleigh, NC
http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/dimp/digital/rhp/
10. Vaudeville!
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ema02/easton/vaudeville/vaudeville.html
11. SparkAction
http://sparkaction.org/
12. National Geographic Video: Animals, Travel, Kids
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/
13. ICA: Mark Bradford
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/bradford/
14. Apps for Development: World Bank
http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/challenges/78/
15. American Routes
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/folk.html and 
http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/
16. Tulane Special Collections: Carnival Exhibit
http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/Carnival.html

-- Things Happening in March
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/zcullinks.html

-- Somerville schools create system to anonymously report bullying
http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x868510672/Somerville-schools-create-system-to-anonymously-report-bullying

-- Why Should Kids Stop Bullying when States Still Allow Teachers and 
Administrators to Beat Children?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/safe.html

-- Anonymous' Operation Payback.
Some ideas are better than others. Whacking a hornet's nest isn't.
Anonymous Declares War on Koch Industries who declared war on Teachers, Unions 
and public education.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/K12-Education-Tea-Party.html 

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