So my current home state of New York won almost $700 million, out of $4 billion set aside in the Race to the Top federal grant competition, announced on August 24, 2010.

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html 

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When I was in junior and high school in the 1980s, my friend Amy and I thought it so uncool to like the band Duran Duran. It was not their nationality, music or New Romantic style. We enjoyed plenty of other British new wave groups—The Thompson Twins, The Cure—whose members clearly… Read full post »