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1. Prairie Dogs (Nebraska Wildlife)
   Provides links to a variety of sites on this rodent. 3-00  

2. High School Distance Education (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
   Provides accredited online distance education studies, leading to a diploma for high school through the University of Nebraska's Division of Continuing Studies Independent Study High School. 3-00

3. Nebraska (Yahoo)
   Provides a list of cities with city guides. 11-01

4. Nebraska Schools on the Net (Yahoo)
   Provides schools on the Net by grade level, state, and then city. 11-01

5. Nebraska (Nebraska State Government)

6. Nebraska (Weber Publications)
   Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Lincoln. 10-00

7. Nebraska Community Foundations (Foundation Center)
   Includes Grand Island Community Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation, and Omaha Community Foundation. 10-02

8. School Bullying - How to Stop It (Nebraska Cooperative Extension - Lingren)
   Provides suggestions for helping victims reduce bullying behavior and for helping your child not to bully others. Examples include, "your child should assert himself just once. If it doesn't work, move on to something else, or the bullying may escalate." "Whatever you do, don't encourage your child to fight the bully." 2-02

9. Guide - Nebraska Prevention Toolkit (NebraskaPrevention.gov)
   Provides a toolkit to help communities plan prevention programs in a comprehensive and cohesive manner. Part of the State Incentive Cooperative Agreement (SICA) process. 1-04

10. Nebraska Prevention Resources and SICA (NebraskaPrevention.gov)
    Provides resources related to the field of prevention and community planning and development for prevention. 2-04

11. 08-10-03 Chimpanzee or New Ape? (CNN News - Walton)
    "From a remote region in the heart of Africa to a genetics lab at the Omaha Zoo, scientists are trying to find out if they have a new big ape on their hands."
    
    " 'Discovering any new primate is a huge thing, a new ape would be incredible,' said Ed Louis, conservation geneticist at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska."
    
    "Williams also has a fascinating anecdote from a longtime resident of the region, an 84-year-old Norwegian Baptist missionary known as 'Madame Liev.' "
    
    " 'Years ago, she was driving an old truck and one of these apes walked by in front of her. It was walking bipedally (upright) and was taller than her, and she's six feet tall,' " Williams said. 8-03

12. Water Pollution Report Card for States (CBS News)
    "Two environmental groups released a review of government records Tuesday, showing that water pollution enforcement is failing in more than 40 states."
    
    "Friends of the Earth and the Environmental Working Group say these states have allowed critically important water pollution permits to expire, effectively issuing industries a license to pollute."
    
    "The review also concludes that there is currently little action afoot to correct this serious problem. Nevada, Rhode Island, Oregon and Nebraska all had more than two-thirds of their permits expired. Texas had the largest number of expired permits at 135." 9-03

13. Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri (SacandFoxCasino)
    "The Treaty of 1837 removed the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri into Kansas across the Missouri river to the Great Nemaha Reservation in Doniphan and Brown Counties. The Missouri band became officially known as the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska." 10-04

14. Records Reveal Shallow Justice for Detainees (ABC News)
    "Little information about those held at Guantanamo has been released through official government channels. But stories of 60 or more are spelled out in detail in thousands of pages of transcripts filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, where lawsuits challenging their detentions have been filed."
    
    "The previously anonymous detainees provide accounts of their imprisonment and impressions of U.S. justice. Some express defiance, others stoic acceptance of their fate."
    
    "The detainees appeared last year before military tribunals which, after quick reviews, confirmed their status as 'enemy combatants' who could be held indefinitely."
    
    "Omar Rajab Amin, a Kuwaiti who graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1992, wanted to see the evidence. The 'tribunal president,' the de facto judge for the proceeding, replied that he could review only unclassified evidence."
    
    "Some of the exchanges grew heated."
    
    " 'You are not the master of the Earth, Sir,' Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman, told a tribunal president." 4-05

15. -05-30-07 Alternative for "No Child Left Behind" (Time Magazine)
    "Most state education officials grumble that the pressure-packed annual tests and rigid adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets engendered by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law are flawed means of measuring student proficiency, raising academic standards, holding schools accountable and fostering learning. But since the penalty for defying the law is loss of federal funds, most treat NCLB's prescriptives like bitter medicine they can't afford to spit out. All, that is, except the iconoclasts who run the public schools in Nebraska." 05-07

16. -02-09-08 Obama Wins on "Super Saturday" (Time.com)
    "Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination." 02-08

17. -02-18-08 The Barack Momentum (Time.com)
    "Obama's most convincing victory came in Virginia, a state itching to switch from red to blue in 2008. He swept most demographic groups there, including such alleged Clinton strongholds as white men and Latinos. The size of the Virginia victory can be attributed, in part, to the momentum Obama had gathered over the preceding weekend in caucus states like Nebraska and Maine. And his blowout victories in those places can be attributed to the fact that he is running a smarter, more rigorous campaign than Clinton is." 02-08

18. -06-12-08 Mayors Ask Congress to Help Fix Infrastructure (CNN News)
    "Big-city mayors told Congress on Thursday that they are overwhelmed by the infrastructure needs of their regions and cannot maintain well-functioning water systems, roads and rail networks without more federal help."
    
    "To answer such demands, Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, and Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, are pushing a bill to create a National Infrastructure Bank that would raise money for major national projects by issuing up to $60 billion in tax credit bonds, which could then be leveraged into greater funding." 06-08

19. -11-14-08 Safe Haven Law Misses the Mark (Time.com)
    "Safe haven laws [in Nebraska] were instituted in the 1990s to deal with the problem of parents who were abandoning their babies and leaving them essentially for dead in dumpsters, alleyways, or restrooms. The laws were really designed as a mechanism for these overwhelmed new parents to get their kids to a safe place right after they were born. They were always designed for newborns and infants."
    
    "Our legislators, though, were uncomfortable trying to pick a specific age, so they decided to leave the term "child" undefined. Unfortunately that had the unintended consequence of preteens and teenagers being left." 11-08

20. Accountability - Evaluating Accountability Systems (Phi Delta Kappa International)
    "According to RAND, what we are seeing in states leading the accountability charge -- Texas and Florida, for instance -- should also give us pause. To wit:"
    "students are becoming discouraged and competitive, rather than cooperative
    teachers are becoming alienated and are narrowing curricula to teach to tests
    administrators are becoming number-obsessed and are overspending on tests and other purchases peripheral to teaching and learning
    policy makers are becoming misinformed about learning and focused on the politics of perception, and
    communities are also becoming misinformed, as well as distrustful of schools and teachers."
    
    "The fundamental problem is that these reformers focus...on designing controls rather than developing capacity. In other words, instead of promoting and investing in the expertise of teachers and trusting them to do their job, most state systems focus their resources on building remote-control systems...."
    
    "And here is the point our present accountability hawks and our grassroots activists miss: systematically creating conditions of possibility for knowledgeable professionals to practice their art adaptively must be a crucial feature of any lasting education reform. Good teaching here and there is not enough. Securing meaningful learning opportunities for our own students or decent working conditions for ourselves and our own colleagues is not enough. We -- educators, parents, and other stakeholders who want meaningful education for all students -- need to work together for structural change as well."
    
    "Instead of asking, 'Does this system raise test scores?' and 'Is it efficient?' we'd be better off asking questions that correspond to Nebraska's 10 principles of sound accountability."
    
    "Does this system regard teachers as leaders?
    Does this system focus on capacity rather than controls?
    Does this system foster commitment and not mere compliance?
    Does this system promote integration of accountability and school improvement?
    Does this system risk complexity rather than demand simplicity?
    Does this system really include all students?
    Does this system engage all teachers?
    Does this system engage all other relevant stakeholders?
    Does this system keep pedagogy at its center?
    Does this system encourage high-impact, not high-stakes, assessment?" 1-04