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“Miss Allard is a smart, smart teacher and she loves ME” exclaimed my daughter. You see, my family and I were enjoying reading this past Sunday’s Providence Journal Sports page about Jamie …
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It’s called the “uncanny valley.” It’s a theory regarding the field of robotics that says humans are revolted by machines and other replicas of humans that look and act like actual people. The same goes for computer-generated films (think “The Polar Express”) and some cutting-edge video games. If something without life is too lifelike, we have a tendency to turn away in disgust.
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If some snot-nosed kid were brave enough to fire off this remark off at one of my children in the schoolyard, I highly doubt it would faze them. True, when we were kids this overused, gender-biased comment could have packed a mighty punch. But in my family’s case, it would bear little or no weight due mostly to the fact that, well, it’s true.
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2/2/10
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By now, everyone may be familiar with the federal education aid available to those state’s that meet the criteria for the Race to the Top money – with a potential of $100 million–plus for RI. …
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The General Assembly recently overrode the governor’s veto on the “RI Public School Employees Uniform Benefit Act,” House Bill 5613, Substitute A. This legislation created a teachers health …
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