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Where there be Dragons

Rustic Pathways 15% Discount...

Rustic Pathways is offering our Early Bird Discount to all students who sign up prior to September 15^th. Students who take advantage of this will receive a 15% discount off the program costs for all the programs they join. In addition to this, Rustic Pathways is allowing students to cancel their programs and receive a FULL refund prior to March 1, 2011. This is a pretty fantastic deal, and we are all very excited about being able to offer this to our students. To see a full list of the Early Bird parameters, please visit the following web page:

http://www.rusticpathways.com/application/application.html

Good Luck to all of my students!  Have a super year. Apply what you have learned and walk into the next succession of your life:::Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced::: - James Baldwin.

CORNELL METHOD

Color Matters!

A fun page by Stabilo  

that      explains why          color             is important

for         note taking     and studying.

Are you Writing College Essays? Common Application Supplemental Questions

Class of 2011

Common App 
Supplemental Questions

The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens

This is a great resource. Very enlightening....

Diane Ravitch: Education has become search and destroy mission and teachers are often the targets

Diane Ravitch article.

Diane Ravitch dot com
many telling articles on Public and Charter schools/education.

Bill Gates, an Online Education

This is certainly worthy of a read-through. Among the myriad of items to consider about an education after high school, like college selection, college major or trade, gap year, study abroad travel, there is also the choice of gaining your degree online. Unless the plan is to become an engineer or doctor, and if you are a self-driven student, an online degree may be a great choice! It's definitely on its way to becoming a trend for the next decade of incoming Freshmen...

Tech Crunch:: Bill Gates offers "In Five Years, The Best Education Will Come From The Web"

The St. John's Program

i'm intrigued...