Booker T Washington's path from plantation to Tuskegee Institute
The article outlines Booker T. Washington's birth on a Virginia plantation, family move to West Virginia, coal mining work, and his schooling at Hampton Institute. It notes his founder’s urging leading to the founding of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881. The puzzle asks to identify Tuskegee Institute's location by filling Ts and unscrambling remaining letters to reveal the state.
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Booker T Washington
Virginia
West Virginia
Hampton Institute
Washington
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Tuskegee Institute
Kids want more age appropriate prime time TV
Whitney Fair an 11 year old in southern California loves Friends but says prime time TV isn’t aimed at kids her age. The article notes 54 of 73 primetime series on ABC CBS NBC and Fox target adults 18 to 49 and advertisers fund that audience. Nickelodeon and WB announce younger programming blocks to 2 to 11 year olds. Fair and Kim Hunter Paquette urge more kid friendly content while networks consider changes.
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Whitney Fair
Fair
California
Kim Hunter Paquette
White Plains
ABC
CBS
NBC
Fox
Janice Gretemeyer
Nickelodeon
Hey Arnold
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Garth Ancier
Kid artists install 15000 tiles at Kansas City Zoo entrance
About 1 500 students from fourth through eighth grade drew and wrote messages on 10 000 ceramic tiles for a year long project. The best sayings form a wall at the zoo entrance greeting visitors. Student Marcy Sanz, 9, says there is room for every animal.
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Kansas City Zoo
Marcy Sanz
Should kids be paid to learn debate storms schools and TV
Readers weigh in on paying children for reading or good grades with arguments for and against. A Louisville fourth grader supports incentives to read citing family finances and long term reading habit, while Sioux Falls and Broken Arrow teens urge intrinsic motivation and fairness concerns.
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Matt Waters
Montel Williams
Kids Today
Jennifer Weaver
Louisville
Prerive
Tyler Krehbiel
Sioux Falls, S.D
Niki Keheley
Broken Arrow
Okla
Local paper lists ten acronyms from today’s edition
The article highlights initialized names such as AKRD and NASA style acronyms found in local notes. It then asks readers to sequence events of a local news story, identifying what happened first, next, and the conclusion, guiding readers to trace the narrative chronology.
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