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Topics of the day:
1. K12> Big6 eNewsletter spring edition is now online!
2. K12> Dealing with Unkind Co-Workers
3. MISC> Vanessa Leggett, Bob Woodward, WIW Conference, Tonight, DC
4. RESOUR> [netsites] CENSUS: The United State Bureau of Census: It Is NOT
Just People
5. K12> Researcher Skewers Explanations Behind Teacher Shortage
6. MISC> E-LEARNING BECOMING E-SSENTIAL
7. K12>Attention Teachers! from the History Channel
8. Last: posting for Friday, May 17, 2002
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:28:11 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Big6 eNewsletter spring edition is now online!
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:20:44 -0400
From: Susann Wurster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Announcing New Release:
The Big6 eNewsletter spring edition is now online! Please take a look...
http://fp3e.adhost.com/big6/enewsletter/newsletter.shtml
Feature Articles include:
- Assessment Tools
- Big6 and Standards
- Digital Video Technology
- Professional Development Models
- Worksheet Strategy
- Terminology
plus TIPS and more!
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:43:16 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Dealing with Unkind Co-Workers
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:36:22 -0400
From: Kathleen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ways to Deal With Unkind Co-Workers: "Happy Haters" & "For the "Victim"
On the same page:
Ways to Relax Under Pressure
Contributed by Ginny Hoover in the current Teachers.Net Gazette:
http://teachers.net/gazette/MAY02/hoover.html
Back issues available at http://teachers.net/gazette/backissues
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Kathleen Carpenter - Editor
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Your state's forum: http://teachers.net/states
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:17:50 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> Vanessa Leggett, Bob Woodward, WIW Conference, Tonight, DC
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:03:38 -0400
To: Washington Independent Writers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Ken Reigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vanessa Leggett, Bob Woodward, WIW Conference, Tonight, DC
Vanessa Leggett, Bob Woodward To Headline
Washington Writers Conference, Tonight, May 17
Vanessa Leggett, the Houston free-lance writer who served 168 days in
jail recently for refusing to reveal confidential sources for a book she is
writing, will receive the Washington Independent Writers (WIW) President's
Award, tonight, May 17, at the opening session of the 23rd Annual
Washington Writers Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
At the same time, the WIW Legal and Educational Fund (LEF) will
present Leggett with a $1,000 check for her stand in support of the
First Amendment.
Following Leggett's remarks, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Bob
Woodward, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, will deliver
the conference keynote speech. Also speaking tonight will be Del. Eleanor
Holmes Norton, D-D.C. The session will conclude with a buffet and
wine reception.
Leggett was jailed in the Houston Federal Detention Center July 20,
2001, on a civil contempt charge after she refused to turn over to
government officials four years of research into the 1997 shooting death of
Houston socialite Doris Angleton. Several media and writers organizations,
including WIW and LEF, supported Leggett's legal appeals on her jailing and
the contempt charge.
She recently signed a book contract with Crown Publishers, a division
of Random House. The book is due out in 2004 with the title "The Murder of
the Bookie's Wife."
WIW is sponsoring and organizing the writers conference to be held
tonight, May 17, and tomorrow, May 18. The National Press Club cosponsors
the event.
Daniel Pink, author of the groundbreaking book "Free Agent Nation,"
will deliver a plenary session address tomorrow morning, May 18. His book
discusses the effects of the growing number of independent workers, such as
free-lance writers, in the American work force.
Longtime Washington columnist Diana McLellan will regale conference
attendees at lunch on the topic of "How I Did It My Way--All Wrong." She is
the author of "The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood."
The conference will include more than 20 workshops focusing on many
aspects of writing. Approximately 20 literary agents will speak at the
conference and meet with writers for one-on-one pitch sessions. Some agents
will also meet with writers over breakfast tomorrow.
Visit WIW's Web site (www.washwriter.org) or call the WIW office at
(202) 347-4973 for complete conference and registration information.
WIW is a nonprofit, professional association of approximately 1,400
writers, editors and journalists in the Washington, D.C., area. Founded in
1975, it is the largest regional writers organization in the United States.
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Ken Reigner
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:37:01 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] CENSUS: The United State Bureau of Census: It Is
NOT Just People
From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Netsites Discussion Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [netsites] CENSUS: The United State Bureau of Census: It Is NOT Just
People
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 05:16:17 -0700
When the word census is mentioned in the United States, the automatic
association in peoples minds is of counting people every ten years as
seen on the Census main website
United States Census Home Page
http://www.census.gov
What many may not realize is that the United States Census Bureau is also
an important source for business statistics as the publisher of Economic
Censuses
Consider, for example,
The Manufacturing, Mining and Construction Statistics
http://www.census.gov/mcd/
Manufacturing and Mining
Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3)
Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)
Current Industrial Reports (CIR)
Other Publications and Surveys
Economic Census
Manufacturing Sector
Construction Sector
Mining Sector
Construction Statistics Home
New Residential Construction
New Residential Sales
Characteristics of New Housing
Manufactured Housing Statistics
Value Put in Place
Residential Improvements
E-Stats
Economic Census
NAICS
Current Economic Indicators
Quarterly Financial Report
Research and Development in Industry
1997 Fuels and Electric Energy Report
1997 Economic Census, Mining Sector, Subject Series
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:14:21 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Researcher Skewers Explanations Behind Teacher Shortage
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:58:14 EDT
From: Bonnie Bracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Researcher Skewers Explanations Behind Teacher Shortage
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Researcher Skewers Explanations
Behind Teacher Shortage
http://www.edweek.org/info-epe/staff/dvia=dero.htm
By Debra Viadero
New Orleans
http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=3D30aera.h21
The idea that shortages of teachers across the nation can be attributed
largely to a wave of retirements or to surges in student enrollments is a
myth, argues a University of Pennsylvania researcher.
Richard M. Ingersoll, an associate professor of education and sociology at
the Philadelphia university, based his conclusion on analyses of federal
survey data for more than 50,000 teachers nationwide. He presented his
findings here last week during the annual meeting of the American Educational
Research Association."Yes, it's true student enrollments are going up," Mr.
Ingersoll said. "Yes, retirements are going up, and yes, there are school
districts out there [that] have trouble finding qualified teachers," he said.
"But it's also true that the demand is not due to retirements or growing
student enrollment."Instead, he said, the explanation is unusually high
turnover rates among teachers. While the average, annual turnover rate in
most other professions is 11 percent, he found that teachers leave their jobs
at a rate of 13.2 percent a year.Most of that exodus is occurring, Mr.
Ingersoll said, within teachers' first five years in the classroom not toward
the end of their careers. The results of his ongoing study were first
published in the fall issue of the American Educational Research Journal.
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:15:03 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> E-LEARNING BECOMING E-SSENTIAL
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:00:37 EDT
From: Bonnie Bracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: E-LEARNING BECOMING E-SSENTIAL
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
E-training is one of 24 e-government initiatives launched by the Office of
Management and Budget in October 2001. Agencies participating in the OMB
initiative are working to create a government wide repository of e-learning
courses. Course materials are delivered through a number of electronic
methods: Internet, intranets, audio- and videotape, satellite broadcast,
interactive television and CD-ROM. For one Health and Human Services
(HHS) agency with a slim training budget (just $50 to $60 per employee per
year), e-learning has enabled the agency to provide 1,400 courses online.
Overall, about 14,000 people are using the HHS learning portal. Government
agency
managers and analysts agree that e-learning is destined to become ubiquitous
in the next few years. The biggest hurdle is to Web-enable training
materials and hire training professionals. Right now, only approximately 7
percent of materials are Web-enabled. E-learning also needs to be more
accessible across the federal government which will mean expanding
infrastructure.
[SOURCE: Washington Post; AUTHOR: Gail Repsher Emery]
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10884-2002May13.html)
Source: Benton.org
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:09:50 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12>Attention Teachers! from the History Channel
To: "Kathy M. MARTINEZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Kathryn Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fw: Attention Teachers! from the History Channel
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:26:08 -0400
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Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:28 PM
Subject: Attention Teachers!
Bring history alive in your classroom! Have students make connections
between the past and today's world!
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Lindbergh Flies Again
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:42:59 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Last: posting for Friday, May 17, 2002
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