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Video Games May Help Children´s Vision Problems

Researchers are trying to figure out if video games can help children’s vision problems by encouraging them to play with the weak eye open and the strong eye covered.
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VIDEO: GMA Clown Troupe Visits Backus Children’s Hospital

The Georgia Moose Association Clown Troupe paid a visit to Backus Children´s Hospital Monday. The clowns brought along toys, games, and jokes for the children´s enjoyment. Press play on the left to watch.
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Children’s Story

The Children’s Story

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James Clavell, the author of Nobel House and Shogun presents a chilling tale of how patriotism can be reshaped in a person’s mind with a few simple and resonable explanations. Both disturbing and enthralling, this short and stunning story asks many questions, yet leaves the answers up to the reader. Reissue.

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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times: Tests and Answer Key (Vol. 1) (Story of the World) (v. 1)

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History has been taught in a boring way for far too long.
A subject as moving and powerful as humanity’s past should be inviting, and when it is told well, it is. Susan Wise Bauer succeeds in telling the captivating story of history with her best-selling history series. Parents and young readers have fallen in love with her narrative history, The Story of the World, and its accompanying Activity Book. Now teachers and home educators can take advantage of a new and valuable learning tool: the Tests and Answer Key package.

Included are 42 tests: one for each chapter of The Story of the World. Perfect for evaluating comprehension and retention. The narrative format of The Story of the World helps children remember the famous people, places, and events in history. These tests offer you an easy way to make sure that your child is absorbing the important events from world history. A combination of multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and short writing samples allow you to evaluate your child’s retention and comprehension of key events in The Story of the World. The Tests package contains an answer key for all tests.

These easy-to-use tests and answer keys, successfully used by hundreds of parents and teachers, provide an objective method for measuring retention of key facts, figures, and events from history. A combination of sequencing, matching, short-answer, and essay-style questions gives students a chance to show what they’ve learned. Used with The Story of the World Text Book and Activity Book (sold separately), the Test and Answer Key gives educators a complete history curriculum for their elementary school students.

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Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14

Written with warmth and humor, Yardsticks offers clear descriptions of children’s development. This comprehensive, user-friendly reference has been a favorite of parents and teachers for more than 10 years. For each age, this book includes: narrative description of developmental traits; charts summarizing physical, social, language, and cognitive growth patterns; suggestions for curricular areas: reading, writing, mathematics, and thematic units; favorite books for different ages. What’s new in the 3rd edition: a brief overview of issues in the development of bilingualism and biliteracy among Latino/Hispanic children; an appendix on the birthday cluster exercise for applying the information in the book to working with a whole class of students; an updated list of recommended children s books; an updated list of recommended resources for teachers and parents.

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White Plains man writes children’s book

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Cambridge, England and Ann Arbor, MI (PRWeb UK) September 25, 2010

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations and the University of Michigan English Language Institute Testing and Certification Division have joined forces in a new collaboration that will promote the Michigan English language exams around the world. It will also work with stakeholders in different commercial and educational sectors, especially in the USA, to develop testing solutions precisely tailored to their needs.

Cambridge and Michigan are teaming up at a time of rapid growth in the global market for English language tests, with enormous demand for high-quality assessment for education, business and migration. Both organizations emphasize the need for learners and institutions to be able to choose between a range of tests that exactly meet their needs, rather than generic ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions.

Dr. Michael Milanovic, CEO of Cambridge ESOL says “There is enormous synergy between our two organizations. We are both university-based, not-for-profit exam boards, committed to high-quality assessment and to supporting research and learning, and we both have teams of highly qualified, committed and professional staff.”

“We are bringing together the highly talented and skilled testing divisions of two world-class universities with the global distribution network of Cambridge ESOL, opening up significant opportunities for growth,” says James Penner-Hahn, Associate Dean for Budget at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts. “We believe this will propel the use of University of Michigan tests to a much broader audience.”

A new entity — Cambridge-Michigan Language Assessments (CAMLA) — will deliver the collaboration, with a management board from both Michigan and Cambridge. Employees of the University of Michigan testing division will continue as University of Michigan employees under the new arrangements.

The scope of the collaboration will be to develop and promote the Michigan tests and new services. It will not affect the Cambridge ESOL exams or IELTS.

Information for editors

The University of Michigan, with campuses in Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint, Michigan, is one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities with 19 colleges and enrollment of more than 58,000 students. The university’s English Language Institute, established in 1941, was the first of its kind in the United States. Since its founding, the ELI has become a leader in language teaching, learning, and assessment, in applied linguistics research, and in teacher education at the University of Michigan and throughout the world.

Michigan’s English language tests include:

ECCE:  Examination for the Certificate of Competency in English

ECPE:  Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English

MET:  Michigan English Test

MELAB: Michigan English Language Assessment Battery

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL) is a department of the 800 year-old University of Cambridge, England – recently ranked the world’s number one university by the prestigious QS Topuniversity.com listings.

Cambridge ESOL exams are taken by over 3 million people every year in 130 countries and recognized by more than 11,000 universities, employers and government departments. They are backed by a world-leading program of academic and practical research and by quality management systems certified to international standards. Cambridge ESOL is a part of Cambridge Assessment, Europe’s largest assessment agency.

Cambridge ESOL’s assessments, known as the Cambridge English exams, include a wide range of general, academic and professional language qualifications such as the Cambridge English: Advanced exam, as well as qualifications for language teachers and special tests designed to motivate and encourage children who are learning English. Cambridge ESOL also produces the IELTS tests, which are widely used by US universities.

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