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Onceuponaschool.org

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

This looks like something worth making some time for: "Dear Friends of TED, Dave Eggers, winner of the 2008 TED Prize, wished to collect 1,000 stories of private citizens engaged in their area public schools. He called upon every adult to bring their time, skill, and energy to bear on the lives ...

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Raising Money through School Auctions

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Seth Godin posted a great article on marketing the charity auction. "The Robin Hood Foundation raised more than 24 million dollars at their last auction, because people competed to overpay. And that's the secret. The story the charity must tell is: "don't pay $19 for this twenty dollar bill, don't even ...

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Education World: Interactivity of the Week

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Education World Interactivity of the Week: TownConnect Education World featured TownConnect recently as their Interactivity of the Week. Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 98 percent of the nation's public schools connected to the Internet, the ...

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