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It all Comes Out in the Wash! Teaching Style and Thinking About The Kind of Teacher You Are.   By Joy Lubawy.  

Have we moved forward with the times in educating young children? 

Do you remember when your Mother used to boil the copper and stir the clothes in the boiling water with a wooden stick? Gosh the clothing must have been ha

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