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Israel Sends $50 Million a Month to the Palestinians?

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Why Israel Collects Taxes for the Palestinian Authority By Daniel Engber  (February 2006) Israel’s prime minister will decide on Sunday whether to begin economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority. To protest the new Hamas-led government, Israel may stop sending the Palestinians the $50 million a month in taxes it collects on their behalf. Why does Israel collect taxes for the Palestinians? That’s the arrangement they worked out during […]

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely: Islamic State ‘mentality’ has reached Palestinians

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The Times of Israel 16:56 Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely tells the BBC that the use of Palestinian children to attack Israeli children shows that the mindset of the Islamic State has infiltrated into the Palestinian consciousness. “With these brutal knifings of Israeli children by Palestinian children we are seeing the IS mentality entering the Palestinian arena,” she says. Hotovely disputes arguments that the recent violence was down […]

Discover Your Child’s Personal Learning Style

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About fifteen years ago, Harvard researcher Howard Gardner wrote a book called Frames of Mind that challenged the common belief that people are born with a fixed intelligence that can only be discovered through IQ tests.  Instead, Gardner said, there are at least seven distinct ways of being smart, and one can discover these ways by examining how people solve real problems and create meaningful products. These intelligences […]

Promote a Strong Physical Education Program in Your School

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A recent study suggests that kids with hyperactive or aggressive traits may improve their behaviors if they engage in regular  vigorous physical education. Hugh Stevenson, track and cross country coach at U.S. International University in San Diego, reported on efforts to improve physical education programs for children: ” We’re already seeing effects, especially on hyperactive, aggressive kids…Students who ran and participated in jumping or field excercises, for forthy […]

THE MYTH OF A.D.D.

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Millions of parents and teachers have been enchanted into believing in the existence of a discrete psychiatric illness called “attention deficit disorder” that supposedly afflicts millions of American children…[In fact] these children are not disordered and A.D.D. does not exist. They may have a different style of thinking, attending, and behaving, but it’s the broader social and educational influences that create the disorder, not the children. These children […]