Articles Posted in the Education Category
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“SHCOOL X-NG”: Street Sign Mistake in Front of High School and Nobody Notices for Months!
S-C-H-O-O-L is how you usually see it painted on City streets near public and private schools, but somebody made a mistake when painting in outside a school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and spelled it “SHCOOL X-NG” and worst of all, it’s been that way for several months, according to the New York Post. “It’s [...]
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Shakira to Advise Obama on Educational Issues
Shakira will now be advising President Obama on educational matters. President Obama has appointed the Colombian-born pop star to his Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. In naming Shakira, the White House cited her record founding a group, the Barefoot Foundation, which operates schools in Latin America and South Africa, as well as her [...]
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B-I-Z-A-N-T-I-N-I-S-M-O is the winning word for the first National Spanish Spelling Bee
We’re not talking T-A-C-O, H-O-L-A, or C-O-M-O. The first-ever National Spanish spelling bee was full of some difficult words, but that didn’t stop a seventh-grade girl from Santa Crunz, New Mexico from winning. Evelyn Juarez, of Carlos F. Vigil Middle School, won by correctly spelling the Spanish word “bizantinismo,” and in case you didn’t know, [...]
