Monday Motivation: Get out of the house

Pumpkin spiced lattes. Sweatshirts and blue jeans. Pumpkin patches and corn mazes. Baked apples and roasted marshmallows. Laughing with friends and screaming in haunted houses. Road trips. Football. Visiting family and taking naps. Autumn brings so many things to do and eat that it makes me giddy every October. If you’re in search of something…

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The Literacy Intern Project

First-grade students’ reading skills would improve and high-poverty schools would employ more minority teachers with graduate degrees if a new partnership between the Charleston County School District and the College of Charleston works out the way officials say it will.

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Painting a Portrait

Originally posted in the Post and Courier by Diane Knich on Monday, July 13, 2009. She trudges through the brush and along the edge of Kiawah Island’s marshes almost every day, holding a large metal antennae in the air and listening for the beeps to grow louder from the tracking machine belted to her waist…

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New book by Jack Bass, W. Scott Poole

The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina Text from Post & Courier Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole wanted to move beyond the tendency of many state histories to focus solely on well-known individuals and incidents by introducing some figures of whom many are not aware, not least the role of African-Americans in…

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