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		<title>Appalachian Overseas</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2008/04/24/appalachian-overseas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linda Veltze, a professor of library science at Appalachian State University, is participating in a faculty exchange at the Karlsruhe University of Education at Karlsruhe Germany. Veltze is working with students in a teacher training program at the institute who are enrolled in her “Teaching the Holocaust” course. Veltze and her students worked together prior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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More than 80 school systems visited campus to recruit new teachers during Appalachian’s education fair sponsored by the university’s Career Development Center. About 350 students talked with superintendents and other representatives about jobs after graduation, including senior elementary education major Holly Heavner, right photo. “I met with representatives from not only North Carolina but Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian will host a Duke TIP Scholar Weekend April 5-6</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE – Appalachian State University will host a Duke TIP (Talent Identification Program) Scholar Weekend April 5-6 for academically gifted 7th-12th graders.
The program is sponsored by Appalachian’s Reich College of Education and Duke Talented Identification Program. It is open to students who have been identified in a Duke TIP search or identified as academically gifted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educators learn of academic expectations of college-bound high school graduates</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2008/03/05/educators-learn-of-academic-expectations-of-college-bound-high-school-graduates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—More than 45 educators from across the region gathered at Appalachian State University recently to talk about academic expectations and student success in college.The group, comprised of high school English teachers from eight regional counties, faculty members from Appalachian’s Department of English and educational administrators, discussed how high school curriculum requirements influence the academic readiness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian professor helps Qatar implement educational reform</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2008/02/18/appalachian-professor-helps-qatar-implement-educational-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Qatar is one of the wealthiest nations on earth, thanks to its rich reserves of oil and natural gas.
The country is further expanding its economic base by focusing on education and is overhauling its education system to develop a knowledge economy, which will include a science and technology park to serve the many companies locating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring educators</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2008/01/09/honoring-educators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope Laura Cassidy, right, is this year’s recipient of the Daisy Austin Adams Endowed Scholarship for Education. The scholarship was created by Adams’s family members in honor of her more than 30 years of teaching. Now in its third year, the scholarship awards $1,250 per semester to a graduate of Watauga, Avery or Ashe high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian receives $213,652 to host Egyptian educators</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2007/11/05/appalachian-receives-213652-to-host-egyptian-educators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Appalachian State University has been selected to host two groups of Egyptian educators who will participate in a 15-day, short-term study tour to learn about comprehensive school reform models used in the United States.
The first group of 21 Egyptian educators will arrive in Boone on Dec. 1, while a second group of 21 educators will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian and Watauga County schools to host Jordanian educator</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2007/10/09/appalachian-and-watauga-county-schools-to-host-jordanian-educator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Appalachian State University, Watauga High School and Hardin Park Elementary School have been selected to host Ismail Al-Akras, a Jordanian school administrator who is participating in a Fulbright Administrator Exchange Program.  Al-Akras will be in Boone Nov. 7-18.
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		<title>Show and tell Appalachian style</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2007/10/09/show-and-tell-appalachian-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Clayton Duckett (standing left) needed something for show and tell in his second-grade class at Hardin Park Elementary School, his mom had a kid-pleasing solution. Darrah Horton asked classmate Hunter Stewart (seated right) if he would speak to her son’s class. Horton and Stewart are both students at Appalachian State University. In addition to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign language instruction in Burke County schools receives boost with help from Appalachian State University</title>
		<link>http://wilkes-news.com/archives/2007/10/02/foreign-language-instruction-in-burke-county-schools-receives-boost-with-help-from-appalachian-state-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Public school students in Burke County will soon have expanded foreign language options, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Matching funds from Appalachian State University and Burke County Public Schools brings the budget for the three-year project to more than $1 million.
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