Maria Mahon (mmahon)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since May 12, 2009, follows 1 people, 2 public groups, 64 public bookmarks (64 total).

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The History of Jim Crow on 2009-11-27
Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-16
Immigration History--Lesson Plans, Primary Sources and Activities from The Tenement Museum on 2009-11-09
Obama Puts Spotlight on Education Grants - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-09
- Under the draft criteria for the competition, states must not prohibit the use
  of student achievement data in evaluating teacher performance.
How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine on 2009-11-09
- In correspondence, her husband referred to the place as "our dear home," the
  spot "where my attachments are more strongly placed than at any other place in
  the world."
- A sprawling Freedmen's Village of 1,500 sprang to life on the estate, complete
  with new frame houses, schools, churches and farmlands on which former slaves
  grew food for the Union's war effort.
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- - Orton Williams was not only Mary Lee's cousin and a suitor of her daughter Agnes
    but also private secretary to General in Chief Winfield Scott of the Union Army.
  - Orton Williams was not only Mary Lee's cousin and a suitor of her daughter Agnes
    but also private secretary to General in Chief Winfield Scott of the Union Army.
Washington, DC--Old Stone House on 2009-11-04
Report Questions Duncan’s Policy of Closing Failing Schools - NYTimes.com on 2009-10-30
- Furthermore, the disruptions of routines in schools scheduled to be closed
  appeared to hurt student learning in the months after the closing was announced,
  the researchers found.
- Instead of closing schools permanently, or for a year, and then reopening
  with a new staff, he shifted to the turnaround approach, in which the staff of
  failing schools was replaced over the summer but the same students returned in
  the fall.
  
  The new report focused only on the elementary schools closed permanently from
  2001 to 2006, and thus offers no conclusions about the effectiveness of the
  turnaround strategy.
About Us | StoryCorps on 2009-10-30
The History Cooperative || Booker T. Washington Papers on 2009-10-29
American Album - Once Convicts’ Last Hope, Now a Students’ Advocate - NYTimes.com on 2009-10-23
- But this is precisely where Mr. Dunn chose to be, having seen too many people at
  the end of lives gone wrong, and wanting to keep these students from ending up
  like his former clients.

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