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• Think Before You Move

  
  Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information — Authority: 499
  Published: November 15, 2009 3:00 a.m. Kids learn by hook or by rook Michael Zennie The Journal Gazette It was late in the match and 7-year-old Christophe Diwis had five pieces left. His opponent was down to just a king. After several rounds, Christophe gave up three pieces as the other player idly picked his ...
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• It gives the kids a touch of reality

  
  Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information — Authority: 499
  Battles of wits: Clio youth prepare for chess tournament By Flint Journal staff November 15, 2009, 3:09AM CLIO — The Clio sports teams aren’t the only ones training for big tournaments. Since the beginning of the school year, the Knight Stalkers have been training for the 2009 National Youth Action, a chess ...
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• Job Vacancies Cebu – Openings for engineer, manager, designer, accounting staff

  
  tropicalpenpals.com — Authority: 127
  Immediate hiring for:Maintenance and Production Engineer Qualifications: · Male, not over 35 years old · Must be a Graduate of Mechanical Engineering · Must have good scholastic records · Hardworking, Responsible, Has Initiative & Leadership Skills, Highly Dependable, Service-Oriented and [...]
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• On Tolerance–Part 2

  
  Potted Frog — Authority: 115
  For Part 1, go here . These pictures are from three years ago when we were at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving. Since we do not have piles of leaves in our immediate area, it was like an amusement park for my girls. A short story about the half-Hispanic/half-Iranian boys from the last post . The girls ...
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• Bookmarks: why McCarthy won’t autograph, the definitive titles of the Noughties, and more

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 547
  James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity , fought to keep a gay subplot in the novel . Cormac McCarthy talks about the film version of The Road in the Wall Street Journal and why you won’t find a signed copy of the book Remember when Scholastic tried to censor a tween book because one character ...
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• Group Calls for Boycot of Scholastic Book Club Over Book Featuring Gay Parents

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  The Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a conservative organization dedicated to upholding and reaffirming marriage and family life, has called for a boycott of Scholastic following the company’s decision to include Lauren Myracle’s controversial Luv Ya Bunches (Abrams/Amulet, 2009) in its spring 2010 middle school ...
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• Conservatives call for a Boycott of Scholastics Book Fairs & Book Club Catalog because of the Lesbian Moms in "Luv Ya Bunches"

  
  Im Here. Im Queer. What the Hell do I read? — Authority: 525
  Id say it was hard to believe, but then, its really not. As reported in School Library Journal , The conservative Illinois Family Institute is calling for a boycott of Scholastics Book Fairs and Book Club Catalog because the company is including the elementary level book "Love Ya Bunches" by Lauren Myracle in its ...
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• This Is A Test. This Is Only A Test. [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  [Seoul, November 12. Image via Getty ] SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 12: South Korean students take their College Scholastic Ability Test at a school on November 12, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. More than 670,000 high school seniors and graduates sit for the examinations at 1,100 test centers across the country. ...
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• Chess-in-the-Schools President Profiled

  
  The Kenilworthian — Authority: 422
  Chess-in-the-Schools president Marley Kaplan is profiled in the Giving section of todays New York Times (see " Marley Kaplan Left the Banking World to Teach Chess to Schoolchildren " by Geraldine Fabrikant -- and be sure to check out the excellent " Chess for Change " photo gallery by Tom White). The article tells ...
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• 9-Year-Old Outshines Claque of Entertainment Journos at Fantastic Mr. Fox Premiere [Kids These Days]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  Grace McManus is a reporter for Scholastic, and she asked Meryl Streep "the most sophisticated question that anyone in this entire press line has asked," about the difference between voicing and...
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• 34th Annual Staser Fall Scholastic Chess Tournament

  
  Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information — Authority: 499
  34th Annual Staser Fall Scholastic Chess Tournament Presented by: ORANGE COUNTY GREAT PARK AND AMERICAN CHESS EQUIPMENT Date : SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009 Location : Hangar ...
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• + Awards and Scholarships for Creative Teens

  
  Dyslexia Tutor: News-Resources — Authority: 116
  other topics: click a “category” or use search box The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Students in grades 7-12 are invited to submit work in 30 categories of visual art and writing.  Students must be enrolled in Grades 7-12 for the 2009-2010 ...
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• Reading, it does the body good

  
  On Our Minds @ Scholastic — Authority: 604
  Today we have a special post from our colleague Sara Sinek, On Our Minds new mom blogger. Sara has been with Scholastic for 10 years and she recently had an adorable baby girl named Olivia (pictured at right). Shell be posting about what its like to be a new mom, the importance of early childhood reading development ...
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• On Tolerance–Part 1

  
  Potted Frog — Authority: 115
  Note: I have no pictures for this post, so found some old ones of South Dakota and Colorado. Much of what I think I will say in this post has been in my head for months, really for at least a year. It started to gel into something I wanted to write about last October and November near the elections. Chic’s ...
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• Scholastic Webinar on Interactive Whiteboards

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 595
  Next Wednesday, November 18th, Scholastic is hosting a webinar about using interactive whiteboards in your classroom . The webinar intends to be more than just a "hey look at this cool thing" session. The session, according to its subtitle, plans to focus on discussing frameworks for integrating interactive ...
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• Where The Wild Things Are on Scholastic DVD

  
  Mom Most Traveled — Authority: 523
  Where the Wild Things Are…and 5 More Stories by Maurice Sendak (Scholastic Storybook Treasures) is the DVD that started my love and devotion to the Scholastic Storybook Treasures series. It started with few clicks on Amazon, then a visit to our local library. I checked out Where the Wild Things Are…and 5 More ...
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• 15% Off & Free Shipping At The Scholastic Store

  
  Penny Pinching Parent — Authority: 435
  Its funny to look through all our favorite stories and see how many of them are Scholatic books...even the ones that are from when I was little!  If your family are big Scholastic fans like we are, you can fund BIG Holiday Savings at The Scholastic Store. Extra 15% OFF + FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25 thru ...
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• The new GM-in-residence in St. Louis

  
  Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information — Authority: 499
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHESS CLUB AND SCHOLASTIC CENTER OF SAINT LOUIS ADDS GM-IN-RESIDENCE ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9, 2009 -- The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis has hired Grandmaster (GM) Ben Finegold as its first GM-in-residence. As GM-in-residence, Finegold will give weekly lectures, provide lessons to ...
  6 days ago

• Welcome Tom Burke!

  
  On Our Minds @ Scholastic — Authority: 604
  Everyone at Scholastic is excited by todays news that Tom Burke has joined Scholastic as Senior Vice President, E-Commerce! Tom joins Scholastic from bn.com, the e-commerce division of Barnes & Noble , where he was responsible for merchandising, online marketing, customer experience, design and editorial ...
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• 5 Questions with Nick Friedman: Parent and Child Magazine

  
  On Our Minds @ Scholastic — Authority: 604
  Youve read the previews and youve witnessed the contests . Now Scholastic Parent and Child is sharing its Editor-in-Chief, Nick Friedman, with the OOM team. We asked Nick a few questions about the exciting projects hes enjoyed seeing develop at the magazine, what the current hot topics are in the ...
  6 days ago

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