We recently singled out Samsung's Series 3 11-incher in our back-to-school roundup.
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Building on our theme of school-reformers reflexively blaming teachers, I draw your attention to this post by Andrew Sullivan.
So keeping that in mind, one of our biggest growth areas has been our in-school programs in which we work directly on campuses to help keep kids stay motived and do well in school.
And 40 states now across the country have made significant education reforms because of our efforts -- unprecedented effort at school reform over the last several years.
This is done through the creation of internal articulation agreements, patterned on the articulation agreements we have in place with our K-12 school systems.
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Nearly every afternoon a shiny gray pick-up stops in our driveway and a hairy-legged, 17-year old high school senior heads for our door.
Best example: Harvard, which remains our top school with a five-year M.
Finally, we continued our back-to-school coverage by rounding up the top six kids backpacks of the year and we put together a week-long menu of bento box ideas.
The business-school package prepared by our colleagues at is an ambitious and innovative way of grading these often-expensive institutions.
Let's also make sure that a high-school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job.
We went together to the high-school auditorium in our old car, Mother driving.
Our children are coming out of high school -- in some cases, they're not even graduating high school, but even if they graduate from high school -- ranked lower on math and science scores than many other advanced industrialized countries.
So even though we're encouraging our kids to exercise, if they can't go to school and that -- get the same kind of exercise opportunities, then it makes our jobs as parents harder.
There were a lot of high-school students and sitting at our table was a director from the company.
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These steps won't transform our education system overnight -- not every school is going to be a Graham immediately.
"The honest truth is that our public school and mental health systems are not well-equipped to address trauma in a way that is resonating with them, " Alvarez said.
One way to unlock innovation in our school system and help it transform into a student-centric one is to get out of our own way and eliminate these disincentives.
The other day, I was explaining to my third graders that we were going to practice a lockdown just in case a bear happened to be on the playground -- a real scenario for our Colorado school.
Believe me, the same worries mulled over by Obama were addressed in my house before my wife, also a big fan of the 1985 Bears, and I gave the OK for our 15-year-old to play high school football (he had never played tackle football before in an organized way).
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For example, our high school students, who are part of our Studio H program, designed and built a 2, 000-square foot farmers market and community pavilion for their small, rural hometown.
Of course, we should consider pre-school for all children, upgrading our infrastructure and transforming our educational system.
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In our house, which is often overflowing with grade-school boys, these elemental placemats have been an astonishing hit.
President Obama, our school is in big trouble because our budget cuts are -- 25 of our teachers already have been fired, to get pink slips.
And I think a lot about our children, our school children, and people who are on food stamps -- and just the entire nation needs to live healthy.
As a career public educator, I have long advocated, both behind the scenes, and right out front, for public school teachers so that we can give our students the world-class education they deserve.
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About 14 years ago, when I was a parent of young children, as preparation for a talk at a doctors' meeting about vaccines, I surveyed (rather informally) parents - mostly mothers of course - waiting in the playground of our local primary school.
It means -- so that our kids are prepared when they start school.
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Our students must have 21st-century classrooms and graduate from high school prepared for college or the workplace in a knowledge-based economy.
Mountain bikes designed for scrabbling along goat tracks or the heart of forests are as superfluous and unsuitable for our purposes as gigantic 4x4 off-road SUVs are on the school run.
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