MARQUETTE — Employers looking for new hires for the summer traveled to Northern Michigan University Wednesday afternoon. The 12th Annual Summer Jobs Fair took place at the NMU University Center. It gave students the opportunity to find employment for the summer months. Hundreds of students attended, sporting resumes and portfolios. Employers from across the U.P. and parts [...]
On Top of the News Texas School Sports Ban: Premont Schools Drop Athletics To Save District The Huffington Post | 1/23/12 Behind the Headline Academic Value of Non-Academics Education Next | Winter 2012 A school district in Texas that has failed to make AYP for 3 years has decided to suspend its athletic programs in [...]
0 Read more: Local, Education, Water Issue, News, Temperance Road Elementary School, Closed, Flooding BEDFORD TWP. — School officials report Temperance Road Elementary will be closed on Wednesday, Jan. 18 due to water issues. There is minor flooding in the school. No staff need to report to the school today either.
Image via Wikipedia Through a mix of seismic surveys and new drilling techniques, new reserves of oil and natural gas are now accessible energy sources in North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. This new source of oil and gas could become an important domestic energy source in coming years. New Drilling Techniques While oil and gas [...]
Working as a freelancer means you have to deal with a lot of stress and issues. Everything from hustling up work to client retention and invoicing to tax escrowing can take their toll on you. If only you just painted or did something else that doesn’t take a lot of intellectual labor. But this is [...]
MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Board and local education and government leaders voiced their concerns Tuesday over a proposed bill crafted by Republican 110th District State Representative Matt Huuki. They fear a severance tax bill on non-ferrous mining operations, like Rio Tinto’s Kennecott’s Eagle nickel and copper mine, could take tens of millions of dollars [...]
In Texas and across the nation, high-stakes testing regimes produced real gains for a few years, then flat-lined Many educators and elected officials, including more than a few members of Congress, regard “No Child Left Behind,” the well-known moniker of George W. Bush’s 2001 education act, as a discredited “brand.” Indeed, the very acronym NCLB [...]