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	<title>The Hall Monitor &#187; Amy Vernon</title>
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	<description>Keeping an eye on education</description>
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		<title>Cheerleaders sending gifts to troops overseas</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/12/01/cheerleaders-sending-gifts-to-troops-overseas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ramapo Central]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffern High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheerleaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	At 7:30 tonight, the varsity cheerleaders from Suffern High School will be filling holiday stockings with personal care items for members of the military stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

	They&#8217;ll be accepting last-minute donations of items such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, shampoo and conditioner at the American Legion post on Pavilion Road in Suffern at that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn about NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mission to Mars</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/11/14/learn-about-nasas-phoenix-mission-to-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockland Community College]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	If you&#8217;re interested in the space program or Mars, you&#8217;ll want to attend this lecture next week at Rockland Community College.

	Ken Kremer, a research scientist and volunteer with NASA&#8217;s Jet Propoulsion Laboratory Solar System Ambassador Program (why do I think his business card must be double-length?), will be giving a lecture on the Phoenix&#8217;s mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students read and are read to &#8216;for the record&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/10/21/students-read-and-are-read-to-for-the-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carver Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Head Start]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jumpstart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port Chester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Read for the REcord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	The Head Start and After School Program students at the Carver Center in Port Chester each received a copy of the children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Corduroy&#8221; as part of Jumpstart&#8217;s Read for the Record.

	This info and photo came through my e-mail inbox today:

	
Maria Diaz, Director of FasTracKids in Rye Brook has partnered with the Port Chester Carver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Punctuation Day â€”Â we missed it!</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/10/06/national-punctuation-day-%e2%80%94%c2%a0we-missed-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[punctuation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	I offer my heartfelt apologies for missing National Punctuation Day&#194;&#174;, which was Sept. 24. I plead ignorance.

	While ignorance is never a true excuse, it can be an explanation. I decided to come clean and to share the news about the day anyway for two reasons.

	1) Check out this wonderful site, where you can find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking to school</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/10/walking-to-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ardsley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dobbs Ferry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pelham Manor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port Chester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prospect Hill Elementary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Siwanoy Elementary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Springhurst Elementary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westchester County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irvington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedestrian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pelham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sidewalks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[walking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Most of us of a certain age certainly remember walking to school for the majority of our elementary, middle and high school careers, if we lived less than a mile from our schools.

	With more and more cars on the roads, however, that&#8217;s become a pretty precarious situation for many children in our region. Especially in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a song for your school</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/02/win-a-song-for-your-school/</link>
		<comments>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/09/02/win-a-song-for-your-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school song]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	And not just any song. A school song.

	Got an e-mail today from Beth &#038; Scott Bierko, local musicians/singers/songwriters and &#8220;arts-in-education specialists&#8221; and they&#8217;re sponsoring a free school song contest for Westchester elementary schools.
 Elementary school children are asked to submit online a 250-word essay expressing why their school deserves a (new or first-time) school song.&#194;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing kindergartners?</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/08/27/testing-kindergartners/</link>
		<comments>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/08/27/testing-kindergartners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[kindergarten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-K]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Just saw this on the Associated Press wires and I&#8217;m sorry, but does anyone else think this is going just a bit too far?
NEW YORK (AP) &#226;&#8364;&#8221; The New York City Education Department has unveiled a plan to give standardized English and math tests to students as young as kindergartners.
It&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s the latest move to expand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch Lady: The Action Figure</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/31/lunch-lady-the-action-figure/</link>
		<comments>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/31/lunch-lady-the-action-figure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[lunch lady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[odd stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school lunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	To help get you in the mood for Back to School, check out this Lunch Lady action figure.

	Best. Action. Figure. Ever.

	OK, that&#8217;s a little hyperbolic, but check it out.

	

	She comes with a lunch counter, removable scoop, food tray and nine lunch stickers that include fish sticks and Jell-O.

	A friend bought one of these dolls and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercy College offers immediate decision week</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/21/mercy-college-offers-immediate-decision-week/</link>
		<comments>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/21/mercy-college-offers-immediate-decision-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[college admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immediate decision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercy college]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Mercy College is holding an Immediate Decision Week enrollment program next week at all five of its campuses.

	The idea is that you get to skip the entire long, drawn-out, oft-stressful college application process. 

	You bring your high school or college transcripts and fill out an application; if all admission criteria are met, you&#8217;re granted admission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCC holds not one, but two new-student orientation sessions</title>
		<link>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/19/rcc-holds-not-one-but-two-new-student-orientation-sessions/</link>
		<comments>http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/19/rcc-holds-not-one-but-two-new-student-orientation-sessions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Vernon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rockland Community College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new student orientation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orientation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[	Rockland Community College usually holds one new-student orientation session for Fall students, but the school is expecting more students than ever to participate and so is offering two this year.

	Students (and their families) can take campus tours, learn about academics and extra-curriculars, check out the bookstore and even get some refreshments. They can meet administrators, [...]]]></description>
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