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New routes to success in learning are popping up around the country

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Step 6: Create a grammar handbook to describe five Parts of Speech. The act was last reauthorized in 2008, although Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has stated he wants to get that done this year. If you score below 80 percent, go back to Step 3. Step 7: Take the unit quiz.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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. — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”. This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.