Florida's education chief holds forum in Tampa on FCAT - St. Petersburg Times
Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson defended the FCAT after the dramatic decline in student writing scores released last week but conceded that the state could have done a better job of explaining changes to parents. Calling it "Conversations ...
Letter writing an overlooked art - Albany Herald
We all need to be worried about the health of the postal service and, as good neighbors, we all need to pitch in and do what we can to keep the mail comin’. In full disclosure, my sister is a postmaster. She does not know about this column so ...
Happy Clarkson struggles with songs - Independent Online
Kelly Clarkson says her boyfriend is “ruining her creativity”. The Stronger singer - who is famed for writing songs about heartbreak - has been dating talent manager Brandon Blackstock since late last year and admits being happy is changing her outlook ...
Southwest finds taker for AirTran 717s in Delta - USA Today
Bloomberg News explains, writing: Shedding the 717s will allow Southwest to shift back to flying one plane type, the Boeing 737, a strategy that curbs training and maintenance costs. The move will let Atlanta-based Delta replace less-efficient 50-seat ...
Suspect accused of writing racial comments on apartment walls - Houston Chronicle
A 25-year-old woman left racial comments written in black marker on almost every surface of her apartment, after the apartment manager tried to evict after for an April arrest, court records show. Contessar Shera Jefferson was arrested in April for ...
Carol Burnett writing book about late daughter - Yahoo Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- Carol Burnett's next book will likely inspire tears along with laughter. The beloved actress and comedienne has an agreement with Simon & Schuster for a memoir about her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, who died of cancer in 2002 at ...
Writing for the Web, and Other Journalistic Hardships - FOLIO
Journalists get a bum rap these days if they don’t “write for the Web” in an optimized manner, or if they write stories that are too long and detailed (I still miss the twenty-page profiles of Amazon butterflies in The New Yorker from decades past).
5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Writing - Forbes
So you’ve been wanting to write—for your blog, for your company, for industry publications, or maybe just for fun. But you’re not sure where to get started. Or maybe you’ve never even considered writing (or never really liked it to begin ...
Writing samples ordered in Democratic petition case - Indianapolis Star
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A former northern Indiana county Democratic chairman and three others have been ordered to provide handwriting samples to a special prosecutor investigating allegations of forged signatures being used on petitions to place ...
Writing series: First step reading - Examiner
What do you read? When you go into a bookstore, or maybe scan through Amazon.com, what kind of books catch your eye? Maybe you are asking yourself, what does reading have to do with writing? What you read influences what you write, the ideas you have, the ...
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