Includes updates and/or revisions. At a time when many teenagers are consumed by such activities as text-messaging, blogging, and social networking, more middle and high school students than in the ...

In grade school, we were required to try our hand at playing an instrument. I, along with about 30 of my fellow 4 th graders, wanted the drums. I ended up with the clarinet. I did not want to play the ...

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DAVENPORT -- Midwest Writing Center will offer Creative Writing Basics, one of its two-part online writing workshops to be offered throughout 2012. The first offering of Creative Writing Basics I ...

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Essays have been an effective tool in expressing one’s ideas especially in the educational system. Right from our school days as we progressed, we were always asked to write one form of essay or the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RALEIGH, N.C. – A legislative committee ...