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	<title>Athens Learning &#187; social studies</title>
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		<title>Summer HEAT 2006 Offers Professional Development Opportunities for Teachers in Miami</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Overview of Summer Heat 2006
Miami Schools are offering a range of summer professional development courses for its public school teachers and administrators in order to help teachers meet federal requirements and learn new methods and approaches to teaching.   Teachers are eligible to take one Summer Heat course.   These courses will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tips to Teaching Middle School</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can not tell you how many teachers have began their career teaching Middle School and quickly started looking for a new occupation.  Believe me when I tell you that if you are not prepared for the job they will eat you alive on the first week of school.
If teaching is your occupation, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give the Gift of Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all had a special teacher in our lives. Maybe she helped you understand a tricky mathematical concept. Perhaps she inspired you to speak fluent French. Or maybe she just took the time to listen and be a friend, believing you were special enough to merit the attention. Whatever the circumstances, the fact is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tampa Schools Prepare Students for the World of Tomorrow through Global Classrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), along with New York-based Merrill Lynch &#38; Co. Inc., has brought the Model United Nations to Tampa schools. Originally, only four high schools were participating and only as an extra-curricular activity. Now, over 50 teachers teach the Global Classrooms curriculum to students in over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeschooling Curriculum &#8211; Are You Making The &#8220;Right&#8221; Choice?</title>
		<link>http://athenslearning.org/blog/2010/02/homeschooling-curriculum-are-you-making-the-right-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After deciding to homeschool your child, you now to work out what you are going to teach them. There are many curriculum choices you can make. You can purchase pre-packaged curriculum, make your own curriculum, or you could even teach a combination of both. Some parents prefer to focus their teachings on their religious beliefs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Approaches to Journal Entries in the Classroom</title>
		<link>http://athenslearning.org/blog/2009/12/four-approaches-to-journal-entries-in-the-classroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The four approaches to journal entries discussed are: learning development, artifact, expression, and social interaction. Furthermore, I will be evaluating these four approaches in this article, so that teachers can utilize them in their classrooms.
Learning languages and techniques will differ according to grade level. Only half of the population in schools today is above the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Comes to the San Diego Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade, schools across the nation have experienced the loss of music. The San Diego schools also had to replace music in many of its schools with other curriculum dictated by the state or federal law. The San Diego schools’ budget only stretches so far and, unfortunately, the arts have felt the biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bachelors Degrees in Secondary Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bachelor&#8217;s degree in secondary education enables a person to teach in a school in grades 5 through 12. In the modern scenario, the need for an expert teacher is on the increase due to various reasons such as reduced class sizes and an increase in the number of students. A teacher has to plan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions And Answers About The GED Test</title>
		<link>http://athenslearning.org/blog/2009/08/questions-and-answers-about-the-ged-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GED is the General Education Development credential, the learning adult’s alternative to a high school diploma. The first GED Tests were developed in 1942 to help war veterans finish their basic education. Today, for the 34 to 38 million adults in the US who never graduated from high school, the GED is the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting National Standards with Integrated Curriculum, Differentiated Learning</title>
		<link>http://athenslearning.org/blog/2009/08/meeting-national-standards-with-integrated-curriculum-differentiated-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In trying to implement the &#8220;No Child Left Behind&#8221; Act, schools are scrambling to standardize their curriculum and upgrade their instruction to make sure students can pass achievement tests mandated by the Act. In order to fit all the instruction and other demands of childhood education into the day, many schools have resorted to &#8220;teaching [...]]]></description>
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