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• “All-male English classes give boys a leg-up | The Kincardine …”

  Literacy News – 903th Edition « News « Literacy News

• “Sure, Where the Wild Things Are and Green Eggs and Ham may be beloved by generations of kids, but many parents are concerned that colorful pictures and imaginative stories aren't going to give their 5-year-old a leg-up on their SATs.”

  The Huffington Post: Alex Palmer: Adults Take the Fun Out of Reading, Again

• “My experiences have taught me that even if unpaid internships are inevitably the territory of the wealthier and more privileged, less privileged people without the financial backing to work for nothing are not, in fact, at a disadvantage because people who are doing unpaid internships are not getting a leg-up in the job market.”

  The Guardian: The internship myth | Emily Sands-Bonin

• “Yes, it is possible the Windows Phone platform will give Nokia's smartphones a leg-up.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Nokia Calls Microsoft for Help

• “Under our plans more than 800,000 young people will be given a leg-up into industry via paid internships.”

  Oh dear, Nick Clegg copies the Tory’s rhetoric on welfare… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…

• “Learning American history by listening to music may sound like a short cut, but when the teacher is opera star Thomas Hampson , it's more of a highbrow leg-up.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Setting the Historical Record, Song by Song

• “The recession has only made internships more valuable: students who have completed internships have a leg-up over other job applicants in a tough job market for young, educated workers.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Laracy: Internships: Gateway to Opportunity or an Obstacle for Low-Income Students?

• “In turn, the already existent Blue Plaques group on Flickr proved useful and amenable, and the idea of using images from Flickr on the Open Plaques service gained an important leg-up when Flickr agreed to grant a “machine tag” option to photographs of plaques uploaded under a Creative Commons licence.”

  Open Plaques: joining the blue dots « Innovation Cloud

• “Optimists might find glimmers of hope in a decision last week to open up the stock market to qualified foreign investors--which could give a leg-up to capital inflows--or a slight recovery in manufacturing activity and employment last month.”

  The Wall Street Journal: India's Circus Is One to Skip

• “And that's fine as far as it goes, but to sell the game worldwide it also helps to stage the odd event on those foreign doorsteps where the game needs a leg-up.”

  The Guardian: Old superpowers can be rugby's emerging nations at World Cup | Shaun Edwards

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