Janet Yellen just became the most powerful woman in US history
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Schiller Park School District 81 Closed Again Tuesday, January 7, Due to Weather
Schiller Park School District sent a msg. To listen https://msg.schoolmessenger.com/m/?s=8xGsYPRbjt0
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Humans pay attention: Perfect sliding. You don’t see this during Champions League Football.
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California students sue state over ineffective teachers « Watchdog.org
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January 6 is National Shortbread Day
National Shortbread Day
Five Food Finds about Shortbread
- Scottish shortbread evolved from medieval biscuit bread, which was a twice-baked, enriched bread roll dusted with sugar and spices and hardened into a Rusk.
- Eventually butter was substituted for yeast, and shortbread was born.
- Since butter was such an important ingredient, the word “shortbread” derived from shortening.
- Shortbread may have been made as early as the 12th Century, however its invention is often attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots in the 16th Century.
- Petticoat Tails were a traditional form of shortbread said to be enjoyed by the queen. The round shortbread was flavored with caraway seeds, baked and cut into triangular wedges.
On This Day in Food History…
1884 Gregor Johann Mendel died. Mendel was an Austrian botanist whose work was the foundation of the science of genetics. Working mainly with garden peas (some 28,000 plants over 7 years), he discovered what…
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There’s nothing in the contract about the temperature.
At 6:30 I got up to let Ulysses out. He didn’t want to go.
The thermometer read -12 degrees.
By the way. Now – three hours later – it says -14 degrees.
Up until yesterday afternoon CPS boss Barbara Byrd-Bennett and Mayor Rahm Emanuel (who was vacationing in the South Pacific with his family) were saying the schools would be open. Faculty and staff were expected to show up for work. Parents could choose to have their children walk Safe Passage Routes, past their now-closed neighborhood school, in temperatures that are life-threatening.
At a press conference of all City department heads, minus the Mayor and BBB, citizens were told to stay indoors.
When asked where Byrd-Bennett was, a city official claimed she was checking on school boilers. With a straight face.
It took the Chicago Teachers Union and its President Karen Lewis to talk sense and light a match under…
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Diane Ravitch and the Angry Rebellion against Common Core
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Will the Common Core Backlash Return in 2014?
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A Battle Over School Reform: Michelle Rhee vs. Diane Ravitch
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