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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>All:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Interesting article in the <i>NCTM SmartBrief</i>: <a href="http://www2.smartbrief.com/servlet/encodeServlet?issueid=5940B92F-B128-4F1C-B0F7-DDB28925F712&sid=994172ba-7cd8-47af-8a57-79d89d7bc6c7">Is ability grouping making a comeback?</a> Also, cognitive-skills training closing the achievement gap. . .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Edward A. Hawks, III, M.Ed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=5 width=506 style='width:271.9pt' noshade style='color:black' align=left></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gifted Intervention Specialist <b>/</b> Exceptional Student Education<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kent City School District<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><hr size=5 width=507 style='width:272.4pt' noshade style='color:red' align=left></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“What he seemed, he was—a wholly human gentleman, the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>essential elements of whose positive character were two and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>only two, simplicity and spirituality.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Douglas Southall Freeman on Robert E. Lee)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>