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Naughty National PTA and Its Flawed Florida Chapter (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
"PTA", the acronym for the National Parent Teacher Association, conjures for many American adults fond memories of their parents attending parent-teacher conferences and baking cakes to help raise funds for the public schools that these adults as children attended. Memories are one thing but the National PTA is quite another. The national organization and its [...]
US: A parody of Right Wing Tactics (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
The latest spying on UCLA's faculty by a conservative zealot resembles Germany's fascist anti-intellectual movement of the 1930s.Andrew Jones is a man on a mission. A 2003 UCLA graduate and former head of the campus Republican organization, Jones is waging a war against the twin evils of women's and ethnic studies. He is also taking [...]
US: Bush makes court more conservative (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
The Senate voted 58-42 to approve Bush's nomination of conservative judge Samuel Alito to a lifetime appointment to the nine-member Supreme Court. Alito, 55, has served as a federal judge since 1990.Washington - The US Senate Tuesday handed President George W. Bush a huge, but not surprising, victory as he heads into his most important [...]
January 29, 2006:
UK: Rowdy students 'must be tackled' (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Living alongside growing numbers of students can be a nightmare for local residents and universities must take action, a report has urged.Queen's University in Belfast recently announced a crackdown on student behaviour following complaints of noisy late-night parties, rowdy drunkenness and vandalism.Six universities - Brighton, Canterbury, Leeds, Loughborough, Salford and Nottingham - were used as [...]
UK: Students bemoan 'unhip' lecturers (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Students think their lecturers are stuck-up, disorganised, unpunctual, unfunny, badly dressed and too desperate to be "hip", a poll suggests.The responses from 648 students found many thought academics were "snooty" and had "objectionable facial hair".But an Association of University Teachers spokesman said lecturers and students had a "healthy relationship".The survey, which asked students to vent [...]
US: Expose 'radical' UCLA teacher, get $100 (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
An alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty.The Web site of the Bruin Alumni Association also includes a "Dirty Thirty" list of professors considered by the group to be the most extreme [...]
January 27, 2006:
US: Law school students protest wiretapping (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Georgetown University Law School students explain why they staged a protest to oppose Alberto Gonzales' speech defending government's wiretapping.On Tuesday, we stood and turned our backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The country's highest-ranking lawyer came to our school -- Georgetown University Law Center -- to convince the American public that the government's wiretapping program [...]
Hungary school discriminates against Gypsies (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Hungary's Ombudsman has told a primary school it must stop discriminating against its Roma (Gypsy) pupils after finding that it separated them from other children and listed them all as having learning disabilities.The school in Kerepes, about 10 km (6 miles) east of the capital Budapest, erected bars down a corridor to segregate Roma children [...]
Girl tells dad teacher molested her, dad punches teacher (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
The girl's father, Dave F. Swafford, was charged with felony battery on a school employee after he hit the 35-year-old Tuesday in front of a full class. A Tampa radio station named him "Father of the Year" and offered the family Daytona 500 race tickets.School surveillance cameras show that a teacher's aide who was punched [...]
Research: Parental stress a factor in ADHD diagnosis (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is the most frequently diagnosed behavioral disorder in children. The diagnosis affects approximately 3 to 5% of school children or approximately 2 million children in the United States. A large number of children with ADHD, 40-60%, are also diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and/or Conduct Disorder (CD). According [...]
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