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• What makes a kid successful in school?

  Published: August 12, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Back To School, Backtoschool, Children, Going To School, Goingtoschool, Kids, Learning, Parents, School, School Success, Schoolsuccess, Students

  Filed under: Preschool, Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Private school, Moms, Dads, Going to school, LiteracyWhile parents all over may breathing a sigh of relief over the approaching first day of school, some will find themselves worried about how their child will do in class this year. Ellie is starting at a new

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• TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day One

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: B2s07, Back To School, Backtoschool, Giveaway, Iphone, Prize, T Shirt

  Filed under: TUAW BusinessPerhaps calling it a back-to-school giveaway is bad. Whether or not you're going back to school right now you're eligible to win one of our prizes. To be honest, there's nothing particularly scholarly about the prizes either. It's just an excuse to give away 14 rounds of prizes. For the next 14 days (excluding weekends)

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• TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day Three

  Published: August 15, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Back To School, Backtoschool, Giveaway, Pen

  Filed under: TUAW BusinessToday's prize: a pen in black with the Apple logo. Whatever you do, don't make notes on your iPhone with this thing. Use it with the meatspace Stickies app you can find at your local office supply store. To sweeten the pot we've got a clever t-shirt of your choice from Insanely Great Tees and a mystery prize for today's

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• Geeky goodness for back to school: Headset Vibrator Alarm

  Published: August 15, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Alarm, Back To School, Backtoschool, College, Gear, School, Sleep

  Filed under: Gear, Toys, CollegeFor college students, sleep is the enemy. Almost everyone winds up pulling a few all-nighters before important exams or when big papers are due, and -- even during the best of times -- it's not hard to drift off to dreamland while you're hunched over a textbook in the library. To avoid conking out and missing

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• School craft: Backpack tags

  Published: August 17, 2007, 7:04 am

  Tags: Back To School, Backpack, Backtoschool, Crafts, School

  Filed under: Going to school, Crafts, Creative projectsThis September (why so late, Texas?), both of my children will be heading down the street to the Mother's Day Out preschool program, or, as one commenter once referred to it, "glorified babysitting." Just for the record, it isn't glorified babysitting; my daughter learned much more during her

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• CPSC: The ABC's of avoiding injuries

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:02 am

  Tags: Art Supplies, Artsupplies, Astm, Back To School, Backtoschool, Bike Helme, Bikehelme, Clothing, Cpsc, Helmet, Helmets, Injuries, Injury, Kids, Kids Clothes, Kids Clothing, Kidsclothes, Kidsclothing, Playground, Safety, Saftey, School, School Clothes, School Safety, Schoolclothes

  Filed under: Gear, Health and Safety, Preschool, Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Private school, Going to schoolIt's that time of year again. School supplies have been purchased, new school clothes are hanging in the closet and everything is ready for the return to school. It's been a long, happy summer and even

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• Best shows about school -- like, ever!

  Published: August 17, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Back To School, Backtoschool, School, Shows, Teen, Television

  Filed under: Elementary school, Middle school, High school, College, Private school, Going to school, TelevisionLet's face it -- for most of us -- school sucked the big one. The only thing that makes me fondly look back at my school days are TV shows about someone else's school days. The best combo, of course, is shows about school that I watched

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• TUAW Back-to-School Day 12: 80 GB iPod

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: B2s07, Back To School, Backtoschool, Giveaway, Ipod

  Filed under: TUAW BusinessUnless you've been hibernating for the past six years, you've heard of our next prize: an iPod. Not a 1st-gen iPod with a janky mechanical scrollwheel and hidden Breakout game. Not a 2nd-gen iPod with handy FireWire port, or a 3rd-gen iPod with crummy battery. No, this skips the photo (4th-gen) and goes straight to

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• TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day 13: an iPhone

  Published: August 29, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: B2s07, Back To School, Backtoschool, Giveaway, Iphone

  Filed under: TUAW BusinessLove it or hate it, a free iPhone is hard to resist. Maybe if it hadn't been unlocked, or hacked, or unbricked there would be substantially less interest. Then again, a $600 lump of coal is still 600 Washingtons more than the guy next to you, so there's that. I'm not saying you iPhone haters should toss the thing on ebay

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• TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway The End: TUAW T-shirt and more

  Published: August 30, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: B2s07, Back To School, Backtoschool, T Shirt

  Filed under: TUAW BusinessThis is the end of our fabulous ride through TUAW's Back-to-School Giveaway. We've had some laughs, haven't we? Today's prize is another TUAW t-shirt (in the size of your choice, provided you choose small, medium, large or extra-large). But to sweeten the deal we'll give you an Ambrosia pack and a copy of Awaken.To enter,

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• Good morning, class! Welcome back to school!

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:50 am

  Tags: Back To School, Backtoschool, College, Healthy Lunches, School Lunch

  Filed under: Back to SchoolWell, good morning, our favorite Slashfood friends! Did you finish that final chapter of the last book on your reading list? Did you put all your supplies safely into your backpacks? Most importantly...did you pack a healthy lunch?!?!In case you didn't know, we here at Slashfood are headed back to school today! We'll be

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• Priceless First Day (video)

  Published: September 6, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Back To School, Backtoschool, Kids School, Kidsandschool, Kindergarten, Mastercard School Video, Mastercardschoolvideo, Starting School, Startingschool, We Want The Funk, Wewantthefunk

  Filed under: Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Family togetherness, Going to schoolWhile many schools started weeks ago, Michigan prolongs summer vacation until after Labor Day to encourage the tourism dollars to keep flowing within the state as long as possible. My oldest started high school on Tuesday, this made me

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• Back to School: Various stages of brown-bag hell

  Published: September 6, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Back To School, Backtoschool, Brown Bag, Lunch, Lunch Hell

  Filed under: Lunch, Back to SchoolI think there is a certain sense of relief parents feel when their children return to school in September. No more worrying about how the kids are going to fill their days, no more dealing with babysitters or shuttling them to and from summer camps. Life simply returns to normal. However, it seems that somewhere

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• School days: Firefox Campus Edition

  Published: September 10, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Back To School, Backtoschool, Downloadsquad, Firefox

  Filed under: Internet ToolsMore back-to-school suggestions; this one has the advantage of being free. If you haven't already downloaded Firefox for your machine, it's a good idea to have it handy for those occasional sites that aren't Safari-friendly. If you're interested in a few extra plugins with a student-friendly bent, then you might check

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• School days: Schoolhouse student organizer

  Published: September 18, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Back To School, Back To School, Backtoschool, Schoolhouse

  Filed under: SoftwareMore back to school application suggestions! This time, a full-featured assignment planner, organizer and grade tracker: Schoolhouse 2.1. Last noted by Dan in April, this powerful and graceful app helps keep students on track by monitoring assigments on the calendar and associating all sorts of metadata with the tasks. You can

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