School Survival

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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", […]

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 […]

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 […]