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R.A.T.S. (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

RATS is being given a facelift... it will look and feel completely different soon... I don't want to spoil the surprise, so I won't say any more now ;)

December 17, 2004:

fixed (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

Rating function fixed... I still have no idea how I broke it. But errr... it works now...

OOOPS (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

It seems the rating function isn't working. This affects the ASD and crib notes section. I added a few things to the script a while back and didn't notice that I broke the rating ability along the way. Sorry! I'll fix it ASAP.

Horrors! Maybe the Schools Are Working Just Fine (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

In a profound sense, the public schools are not an American institution. They were modeled on the system of public education found in authoritarian Prussia in the early 19th century. After Prussia's defeat by Napoleon in 1807, King Frederick William III reinforced the national school system set up in 1717. Children aged seven to fourteen [...]

December 10, 2004:

Cheating section (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

A couple months back, I had to remove the cheating section due to excessive bandwidth. I tried a few other site hosts, but they were all kinda screwey and wouldn't work with my script, so I never actually got the section up and running... so I'm just putting the crib notes section and the infamous [...]

Britain's educational system breeds compliant worker-bees (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

If schoolchildren and students are forced to believe that their economic future is wholly reliant on educational performance, it encourages subordination and conformity. Education becomes a process for stunting creativity and fostering mindless obedience to authority - useful traits in a corporate workforce.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

UK: The kids aren't all right (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

According to Ann Hagel, a psychologist and research development adviser at the Nuffield Foundation: 'Sixteen-year-olds used to be important members of society: they had jobs, money and an identity. Now, if you aren't interested in another two to five years of conventional education, you're a write-off. They're school children with no power or they're nothing.' [...]

December 6, 2004:

Programmer says he developed vote-rigging prototype for Florida congressman (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

The programmer, Clinton Curtis, said that he was told the program needed to be "touch-screen capable, the user should be able to trigger the program without any additional equipment, [and that] the programming was to remain hidden even if the source code was inspected."Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

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