"Internet opens elite colleges to everyone"

Associated Press article in the 31 December 2007 Syracuse POST STANDARD: A5. "Internet opens elite colleges to everyone" by Justin Pope.
Take a look at MIT's OpenCourseWare which "makes virtually all the school's courses available online for free -- lecture notes, readings, tests and often video lectures.

"Female bosses expected to be more understanding"

Check out this research article by Syracuse University Whitman School of Management Professor, Kristin Byron published in the JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2007 Nov. 24 issue. http://www.livescience.com/health/071220-female-bosses.html
Check out Professor Byron's other research at: http://www2.whitman.syr.edu/Directory/showInfo.aspx?id=249

"High school reading lists get a makeover"

Summer reading shouldn't be classics. Click here for CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR article.

School libraries make a difference - student achievement

Links from IASL: http://www.iasl-online.org/advocacy/make-a-difference.html

NEWSHOUR guests discuss Reading & HARRY POTTER

http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2007/07/20/20070720_market28.mp3

Sustained Silent Reading links

Check out these nice links: http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/ath/library/teacher_resources.htm#ssr

"Life after death by PowerPoint"

Thanks to Harry Chan for sharing this lighthearted look at PPT.
http://static.vsocial.com/flash/ups.swf?d=91604&a=0