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Of course, I hope you're following yours truly and my colleague for the latest news on Indiana education. But to round out your Twitter account, I thought I'd pull together a list of some of the Hoosiers who've been tweeting most actively about education issues.

D.C. punk houses haven't changed much. They're still filthy. They're still rife with well-intentioned but unrealized projects, like unturned compost piles and half-finished rain barrels. They still have damp sofas encircled by splintered drumsticks, Xeroxed show flyers, and earthenware mugs ringed with green-tea residue.

On its face, the headline is pretty alarming: Americans' confidence in the nation's public education system, as measured by a Gallup poll, has plummeted to an all-time low. Less than one-third of Americans have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in public schools, according to the most recent numbers - down from the historic high of 58 percent in 1973.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Doreen Lawrence. The life she thought was hers ended when her son Stephen was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in London in 1993. In the years since, her campaigning has resulted in a shift in public attitudes, laws being changed and policing methods overhauled.

Pittsburgh English, popularly known by outsiders as Pittsburghese, is the traditional dialect of American English spoken by many residents of Pittsburgh and parts of surrounding Western Pennsylvania in the United States, a group referred to by locals and others as Yinzers.

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In a bit of hyperbole, a television ad created to promote the EpiPen emergency treatment for allergic reactions suggested a quick jab is all that a little boy named Jake would need to fend off any unexpected and threatening foods at a friend's birthday party.

Anniversaries are usually festive occasions, often soaked in champagne or decorated with old photographs. Other anniversaries are solemn, like last year's September 11 ten-year commemoration. They provide a chance to mourn and reunite a community in recalling a shared experience. Today marks the one-year anniversary of Lauren Spierer's disappearance from downtown Bloomington.

Jeremiah Jackson is supposed to be working on his online tutoring lesson, but the 8-year-old can't keep his eyes off "Burnout Paradise," a high-speed car racing game blaring on the family's big-screen TV in St. Paul. "Go back and jump off the ramp," he tells his sister, Tangeline, as she controls a red Lamborghini.

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Robert W. Block, MD, FAAP, is president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), based in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Dr. Block is also a Professor of Pediatrics and immediate past Daniel C. Plunket Chair, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa.

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COLUMBIA - Jeff Larson awoke Sunday morning to learn he may no longer have a place to live this fall. "I just can't believe it," Larson said. "It looks like it's just completely gone."

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