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MIX Means Variety » award http://mix941kmxj.com Tue, 21 May 2013 21:50:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Mother Outraged Over Daughter's Award for 'Most Homework Excuses' http://mix941kmxj.com/student-gets-most-homework-excuses-award/ http://mix941kmxj.com/student-gets-most-homework-excuses-award/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:00:48 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=126402 Humorous academic superlatives are generally handed out in high school yearbooks. Maybe it’s best to keep it that way because a ”Catastrophe Award” for having the most homework excuses given to a third grader at Desert Springs Academy in Arizona is causing controversy.

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Matt Damon and his mother, Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a professor of education, have both turned down the NEA's Friend Of Education Award. The decision came about after they discovered that the president of the NEA co-authored an opinion article for USA Today.

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