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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Keep reading to learn more about National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and ways you can acknowledge and observe this important cause. Keep reading to learn more about National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and ways you can acknowledge and observe this important cause.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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Key facts, figures, and trends among U.S. labor unions

Candid

Unions can vary dramatically in size (partially due to the local vs. national structure we explained last week). The national arm of the National Association of Letter Carriers (as opposed to any of the locals) is by far the largest union in terms of revenue, bringing in $1.78 Financial data. billion in assets, $26.3

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2012's Required Reading For School Leaders: Leverage Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

As students return to school this and next month and buy their required reading books, principals, instructional coaches, department chairs, lead teachers, and teachers hopefully will have read this summer as their required reading Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s new book, Leverage Leadership – A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools. “As

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7 Voting Resources You Should Know Before Heading to the Polls

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After over an intense year of campaigning for the 2012 elections, citizens all across the U.S. The Election Protection Hotline : 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683), will be answered live from trained volunteer on National Voter Registration Day from 9:30 AM-8 PM Eastern. will be casting their votes tomorrow on November 6th.

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Emerging Technology, Engaging Youth, and Your Mission: YOLO!

NTEN

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. The framework often yields useful considerations.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

According to the report, 99% of public libraries offer access to technology, and 90% report offering some sort of digital literacy skills training. The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home.

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