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UK: Primary school truancy crackdown (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

People in the UK are bitching and moaning that too many 5 to 11 year olds are skipping classes. They think that if they bitch at kids to attend school earlier in their lives, they'll be more obedient later.====Ministers have ordered a crackdown on truancy and absence in primary schools after figures showed a rise [...]

US: Hospitalized students use robots in classroom (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Lying in his hospital room, on a mattress designed to protect his fragile skin, 13-year-old Achim Nurse poked his bandaged fingers at an orange button on what looked like a souped-up video game console.Half a second later, in a social studies class discussing the Erie Canal, a 5-foot-tall (1.5-meter-tall) steel-blue robot raised its hand."You have [...]

US: Downscaling the Dreams of Youth (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

America prides itself on its unlimited opportunity. So why are fewer and fewer young people able to attend college, find jobs and reach the middle-class promised land?Renee, a white 26-year-old, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her parents wanted nothing more than to send her to a four-year college when she graduated from high school, [...]

May 27, 2006:

US: Bush's '16 Words' Were False (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

A newly declassified State Department memo provides the first hard evidence that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence in their thirst for war.Sixteen days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from [...]

May 26, 2006:

US: Attorney General Gonzales States A Free Press Is Secondary To National Security (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales stated at a press conference on Sunday that he believes reporters should be prosecuted for printing classified information just as much as those who leaked the information in the first place.Gonzales went on to state that the government will continue to tap the phones of reporters as part of a criminal [...]

UK: Schools want off-site "behaviour police" (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Apparently the stress of dealing with students not following orders is causing teachers to develop illnesses. OK, what about the stress school causes for students? Maybe that's why they don't follow orders? :P ... Here's the article:====Schools urgently need off-site "behaviour" units to deal with unruly pupils, teaching experts have said.The Educational Institute of Scotland [...]

May 25, 2006:

UK: In Scotland, girls work harder (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Apparently, girls are more likely to work hard and boys more likely to "not be bothered" about schoolwork. Of course, people are now getting all worked up about equality laws and threatening legal action. Here's the article:===Schools may be open to legal action if they do not do more to help boys catch up with [...]

May 22, 2006:

UK: Children 'must not stay up late' (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Parents must make sure their children are not too tired for school after staying up late to watch television, the head of the watchdog Ofsted said.Chief inspector Maurice Smith said families had a duty to make sure pupils turned up to lessons feeling alert and ready to learn.Children must be "properly nourished" and "not scruffy", [...]

May 21, 2006:

US: Get to them when they're even younger (3 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

California is considering putting more money and effort into the preschooling system - to prepare kids for school... to "raise achievement and lessen crime and delinquency". They can sugar-coat it all they want... here's the rest of the article:Study: Universal preschool will raise achievementProposed program on California's June ballot SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A proposed [...]

May 20, 2006:

Slight Redesign & Support Page Updated (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

I did a tiny redesign again, just edited the logo a bit and made the graphics stand out a bit more. It's been more than 2 years since I changed any graphics, so I guess it was about time :P Also changed the support page a little bit, added some new ideas and organized it [...]

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