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would be to come up with the correct articles, have them expanded to correct form, and proofread and checked by professionals. These articles, during the third step, would be produced and shipped to the participating schools. This would then achieve the aforementioned goals and help students learn in places where learning isn't always the easiest.
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The example we wish to bring up is New York City. New York City is a large municipality, made up of 5 boroughs with over 200 school districts. The schools would highly benefit from these CD-ROMs to help the students give them good knowledge of what they should know basically. Some of our examples
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It is our belief that this project is highly important and will benefit all stakeholders. We wish to make this project a success, so then we can have future types like this. And, who knows, we could go global, not just the United States alone. Thanks to any participants who wish to help with the
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Articles included in the CD would be relevant to each school. Choosing which articles to include is one of the hardest parts. Our remedy for this is to start up a bot, which would search a certain string of words and hand-pruning the articles to be included under the following criteria:
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