Tag: education
member name: Kat Eldred
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November 10, 2006 10:50 AM EST --
My daughter brought this document home from school and I wanted to share it on Duluth Life. It's important that we teach our kids these things. My husband and I have been teaching . . . more
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December 04, 2006 11:51 AM EST --
Do you remember the $300 tax rebate checks you got from President Bush? Sure $300 in the mail is nice, but I also remember that this was a time that most of the social services in our town . . . more
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April 17, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
I couldn’t resist, after I had heard about this short quiz on the Pew Research Center’s Web site last night on NPR’s All Things Considered – I knew I had to take it. . . . more
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May 24, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
Our family outing last Sunday brought us to the doorsteps of the Eco-Home at Hawk Ridge in Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood.. The kids were not overly thrilled about the venture, but my husband . . . more
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November 08, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
The pendulum of politics always swings in the U.S. It's one thing I have always had faith in. Sometimes it takes a while; but through this mid-term election the "pulse of the . . . more
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January 30, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
In the past few years, I find myself getting into a “focus of the month” mode. It is an interesting exercise. I’m not sure how it started. . . . more
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June 28, 2007 05:10 PM EDT --
Last night I was watching a program on television, the program is somewhat irrelevant, but one comment that a woman made was about people who have a “life of the mind”, and that comment resonated . . . more
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September 26, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
MPR's Bob Kelleher reports that the China boom continues on the Range - but for how long?
Town leaders in Eveleth will tell you that business is great. It's not just civic boasting. Three years . . . more
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November 27, 2006 04:29 PM EST --
I rarely read fiction. So, I find myself strangely attracted to books about human behaviors, demographics, psychology and biographies of human beings who have made significant . . . more
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January 09, 2007 10:53 AM EST --
To some the term “cross-cultural training” might smack of 1970’s altruism and I’m not sure it [the term] is even used anymore. Maybe it’s morphed into “diversity . . . more
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February 12, 2007 11:47 AM EST --
This is an interesting discussion and seems pretty pertinent to me. A similar debate has been going on about California's use of the Colorado river for years.
Minnesota . . . more
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June 19, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed an ordinance on April 20, 2007 that makes the city the first in the nation to outlaw the use of plastic grocery bags.
The ordinance requires large supermarkets . . . more
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August 11, 2006 01:59 PM EDT --
Food quality has been a big issue for me for many years. Maybe it's because I grew up eating a lot of local produce and the meat my grandfather raised in rural Minnesota. Was it there that . . . more
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October 16, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
I wouldn't recommend anything that I am not willing to try myself. So I decided that I would try the "Select a Candidate"quiz offered on Minnesota Public Radio's Web site. . . . more
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December 04, 2006 10:47 AM EST --
“Where no man has gone before” might be the Star Trek slogan but it just as aptly describes Stephen Hawking’s mind. This man seriously “thinks outside the box”. . . . more
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February 12, 2007 11:19 AM EST --
I don’t care who debates what about global warming, we don’t need to debate the fact that we are dependent on oil or that the exhaust from our cars is damaging to the earth and our bodies. . . . more
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March 14, 2007 11:33 AM EDT --
It’s no secret; I am a huge supporter of the arts and along with that, I strongly support teaching the arts in K-12. I believe that arts education benefits both student and society. . . . more
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August 18, 2006 11:14 AM EDT --
MPR's Stephanie Hemphill reports on Eastman Johnson's Legacy in Art
An art exhibit in Duluth offers a rare and rich portrayal of the lives of Ojibwe Indians, during the period when white settlers . . . more
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September 06, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
Kudos to everyone who will get out and vote in the mid-term elections. Some folks do not think it is important to vote; evident in the percentage of the population that does not vote. . . . more
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October 13, 2006 03:41 PM EDT --
I had a sort of "driveway moment" today, you know those moments when what you are hearing on the radio is so compelling that once you arrive home, you sit in your driveway listening instead . . . more
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