Marine Corps Col. Bill Davis was in true public form when he stood before a crowd waiting to observe his retirement ceremony and broke into a wide grin. Its such a well-disciplined crowd, Davis told the throng, which included retired generals and local elected officials. Who would have expected everyone would be seated three minutes [...]
Many different types of assessments show the way a student engages in problem-solving to actively construct mental models. Teachers realize assessments demonstrate that knowledge is not merely achieved by gaining information – but by information interpretation and relating it to the students base of existing knowledge. How much do you know about the different kinds [...]
The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) has appointed the dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB) as a member of its board of directors, the ISB announced today. ISB’s Dean Ajit Rangnekar becomes the only representative from India to serve as part of the influential group, which is made up of deans from leading business [...]
NEESES, S.C. Football games have been postponed by heavy rains, lightning, power outages: and now, fire ants. A game in South Carolina was postponed Friday after the referee decided the field was unplayable because of fire ants. Referee Steve Hook says he found 15 to 20 large active fire ant mounds shortly before the game. [...]
The Flower Mound Public Library is a 25,000 square-foot single location library with a total collection of approximately 100,000 items, made up of print books, audiobooks, ebooks, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, and CDs. The library also has a wide selection of databases available for research, including America’s Newspapers, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, The Testing and [...]
Wrestling with the challenges of documents in the digital age, U.S. officials are destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs — but the effort is raising the ire of some historians, private detectives and others who heavily rely on the files. M. Spencer Green, The Associated PressThis National Archives and Records [...]