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• China's Most Expensive Kindergarten Promises to Prepare Kids for College by 15-years of age

  Published: August 14, 2007, 8:31 pm

  Tags: International Education, China, Chinese, College, Higher Education, Junior High, Kindergarten, Promise, Rich

  The first time around the owner of China's most expensive kindergarten did it illegally."This time," he says, "I got me an official license from the local government."He promises that his kindergarten will:1. be a wonderland creation2. have kids reading by the age of three

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• Money tips for preschoolers

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:41 am

  Tags: Checkbook, Consumer, Consumerism, High School, Highschool, Kindergarten, Liz Pulliam Weston, Lizpulliamweston, Middle School, Middleschool, Msn Money, Msnmoney, Nickel, Nickelodeon, Saving, Sharing, Spending, Sugary Cereal, Sugarycereal

  children who aren't even in kindergarten. Turns out, as we all suspected anyway, that kids are learning about the basics of money earlier and earlier. According to this great article by my personal financial guru Liz Pulliam Weston, who writes for MSN Money, by the time children hit middle school they are resistant to learning "the truth" about

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• Cubicle Hell: 'Times' Employees Claim Their Tambour Doors As Their Own

  Published: August 28, 2007, 5:10 pm

  Tags: Cubicle Hell, Kindergarten, New York Times, Office Space

  A memo just went around to Times employees, informing them that soon they will be able to claim their cubicles as their very own. Now everyone will really know where everyone else sits, because...

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• 5-year-old suspended for hiding on the school bus

  Published: September 6, 2007, 11:05 am

  Tags: Acting Out, Actingout, Bus, Bus Driver, Busdriver, Children, Discipline, Giggling, Hiding, Hiding Games, Hidinggames, Kids, Kindergarten, Mom, Parents, Riding The Bus, Ridingthebus

  Filed under: Health and Safety, Elementary school, Moms, Going to school, 5 years, DisciplineEllie loves to play hiding games. All the time. I will leave the room and come back seconds later to find her gone. She's not really gone, but crouched down behind a chair, trying with all her might not to laugh out loud. It's cute the first hundred or

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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

  blow was my baby starting kindergarten. The lump in my throat was and tears in my eyes were just over my selfish desire to keep someone little and fun around all day, the way it has been for years. When the time came to drop off Scott at kindergarten, the actual scene was along the lines of this MasterCard ad: I think we're all going to

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• Skipping a grade in school

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Academics, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, First Grade, Firstgrade, Kindergarten, Montessori, Private School, Privateschool, Public School, Publicschool, School, Second Grade, Secondgrade, Skip First Grade, Skip Grade, Skipfirstgrade, Skipgrade, Skipping Grades, Skippi

  1st in order to enroll in kindergarten. Ellie missed that date by three weeks, meaning she couldn't officially start kindergarten until she was almost six years old. Instead, she attended a private Montessori school, where she was quickly moved from the pre-school class into a kindergarten class. She didn't get 'credit' for kindergarten that

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• School lockdown

  Published: October 8, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Keeping Kids Safe, Keepingkidssafe, Kids Safety In School, Kidsandsafetyinschool, Kindergarten, Lockdowns, Protecting Kids, Protectingkids, Safety Measure For Schools, Safetymeasureforschools, School Lock Downs, School Safety, Schoollockdowns, Schoolsafety, What Lock D

  Filed under: Health and Safety, Elementary school, Going to school, 5 years, Monitoring your kids, EmotionsWhen I asked my kindergartner how his day went, I was expecting to hear the latest recess escapade, what he had for lunch and who he sat next to during story time. I wasn't ready for, "Today we had a wok-down!" A "wok-down" (pronounced

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• Kindergarten and robots: Nyack has matched the two with good results

  Published: November 10, 2007, 8:33 am

  Tags: Children, Kindergarten, Robotics, Robots, Science, Structure, Technology, Technology Course

  Kindergartner Akenti Wheeler has learned all about balance, levers and fulcrums by building a seesaw in her robotics class at Valley Cottage Elementary School.   read more

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• Man sentenced to community service, pedophile

  Published: November 15, 2007, 4:39 pm

  Tags: Bizzare And Offbeat, Idiot, Sad, Strange, Alexander Retemeyer, Kindergarten

  to community service in a kindergarten class, which is seemingly normal in the German legal system, except that he was previously convicted of pedophilia three times. The man was allowed to work as a janitor at the Evangelical Kindergarten St Petri in Melle, near the northern city of Osnabrueck, because a court worker missed three prior

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• Senator Dodd Should be Arrested for Child Abuse

  Published: November 24, 2007, 7:32 pm

  Tags: Political, Caucus, Hillary Clinton, Kindergarten, National Polls, Obama, Pander, Senator Christopher Dodd

  There is an article out about the Democratic Primary and how it boils down to a four letter word which happens to be Iowa. Hillary Clinton enjoys a lead in national polls due to her name recognition but in Iowa she is running neck and neck with Obama and Clinton with Obama now in [...] Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• This Clinton attack on Obama could boomerang

  Published: December 3, 2007, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Commentary, Editorials Opinion, Hillary Clinton, Attack, Campaign, Clinton, Desperate, Hillary, Iowa, Kindergarten, Obama, President

  BY: FRANK JAMES  When a political candidate opens a line of attack against an opponent, it's usually wise to avoid the kind of criticism that will be viewed by many observers as the pot-calling-the-kettle-black, the sort of finger-pointing that can easily be turned back on the finger pointer. (more…)

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• Clinton Campaign Claims Obama Kindergarten Attack Was a Joke

  Published: December 4, 2007, 6:31 pm

  Tags: Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Flipflops, Hillary Clinton Make Overs, Hillary Lies, News, Top Story, Barack Obama, Campaign, Democrat, Joke, Kindergarten

  one about Barack Obama in kindergarten? In rather head-spinning fashion, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is now saying that it was only joking when it noted on Sunday that one of her rivals, Barack Obama, wrote an essay in kindergarten titled, “I want to become president.” The Clinton camp’s reference to

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• Clinton’s swipe against rival backfires

  Published: December 5, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: Hillary Clinton, News, Top Story, Barack Obama, Campaign, Clinton, Democrat, Hillary, Indonesia, Kindergarten, Nominee, President, Scandal, Senator

  Hillary Clinton's bad week began innocently enough, with a news release Sunday that many political reporters initially assumed had been written in jest. The 550-word missive from Clinton's campaign headquarters accused rival Barack Obama of "rewriting history" by claiming he didn't always want to be president of the United

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• Mud Fight: When Clintons Attack

  Published: December 5, 2007, 10:12 pm

  Tags: Bill Clinton, Commentary, Editorials Opinion, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Campaign, Democratic, Iowa, Kindergarten, Poll, President

  A CLINTON down in the polls is like a wild animal cornered. It can see only one way out: attack. So it is that Sen. Hillary Clinton, just 10 days after saying she wouldn't attack her main rival, Sen. Barack Obama, did just that. What changed in those 10 days? Obama overtook her in Iowa polling. This was predictable. It's also comical.

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• Hillary’s Ugly ‘Joke’

  Published: December 6, 2007, 7:26 am

  Tags: Commentary, Editorials Opinion, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Campaign, History, Joke, Kindergarten, President

  It's enough to make your head explode - Team Clinton's astonishing press release about Barack Obama's grade- school essays. Yep - grade school. Countering an Obama jibe about a certain senator's "long-held plans" to run for president, Hillary's well-oiled opposition-research machine accessed its multi-terabyte

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