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Carnegie Reading 2018: Release, Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is a very frequent – almost yearly – nominee for the Carnegie Medal. Including this year, he’s been nominated seven times and won twice – making this year a hat trick for him if Release takes the prize. 600 more words
SCHOOLS - Annual report card shows some local elementary schools lagging
Several Kamloops district elementary schools have some improving to do, according to a new report card issued by a B.C. think tank.
The annual Report Card on B.C.’s Elementary Schools, released Saturday (April 21, 2018) by the Fraser Institute, ranks 946 public schools based on 10 academic indicators derived from provincewide Foundation Skills Assessment results. 389 more words
Other people’s lives: the schooldays of UK music legend Simon Napier-Bell
This blog is occasionally called a “comedy blog”, but it is really about interesting people doing interesting, often creative, things – and about other people’s often far-from-normal lives. 733 more words
"The Yuck Show"
The Yuck Show
The Yuck Game Show is an energetic science assembly program available to all schools and libraries across Texas. The audience is divided into two teams to compete in curriculum-based science games and big, highly visual science demonstrations with the winning team’s captain getting the ultimate prize…slime! 21 more words
Working Moms
I have always had the privilege of being a stay at home mother. With my two oldest ones I has able to stay home with them until they were about 2-3 years old before going back to work and I am a firm believer that they cherish that time just as much as I do. 240 more words
Nihilism
Introduction
Nihilism is the philosophical position which argues that Being, especially past and current human existence, is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. 940 more words
