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Top Ten Fictional High Schools from Movies and TV

If your diploma comes from any of these schools – you’ve been watching way too many movies. While many movies and television programs try to realistically recreate the high school experience – they often create a fictional high school to avoid ay issues with rights and releases. Some, like Springfield High School from The Simpsons, ...

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New Ben Stein Documentary ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ to Push Intelligent Design and Question Darwinism

There is a lot of buzz that is gathering over the upcoming Ben Stein documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The goal of the documentary is to expose the scientific community and universities around the world for discriminating against any scientist who wishes to explore the possibility of, “intelligent design,” as an alternative to Darwin’s theory ...

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Teacher Presentation Skills

No teacher wants to use the teacher presentation skills of the Ben Stein character from the movie “Ferris Buehler’s Day Off.” However, if you aren’t thinking about using dynamic teacher presentation skills, you might be boring your kids to death. It doesn’t matter how sparkling your content if you don’t present it in an engaging ...

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The Top Five Quotes from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”

The film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is part of a slew of teen films of the 1980s that went on to become very popular. The movie still holds up today, mostly because it is full of highly quotable lines still a part of the pop culture zeitgeist. It is hard to pare down all the ...

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The Valedictorians and Salutatorians of Hollywood Royalty

Many of today’s most popular stars could have easily won most popular or most beautiful in high school but few think about those Hollywood elite who were also named the brightest in their class, the valedictorians and salutatorians. Actors are generally considered to be less than the brightest bulb in the box mainly because people ...