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UK: 'Real-life' lessons used in maths (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Football, fashion and the Olympics are being used in new "real-life" lesson plans intended to keep England's teenagers interested in maths.The government acknowledges "major problems" in the early teen years.It is matching

June 26, 2006:

Anti-School Directory back (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

The directory was offline for the past couple of days - I was re-organizing the categories and added a few more. They make more sense now. Go take a look :) There are also some new sites in there.[link]

June 23, 2006:

US: School is winning - kids don't know how to play anymore (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

At home, the phrase "Go watch TV" to kids has replaced "Go outside and play" in many families. At school, the daily hour of recess is dwindling. The combination is contributing to many kids not getting enough exercise, according to some experts."Parents are not allowing their kids to play after school because of the safety [...]

US: New York education officials ban shock therapy (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York officials voted on Tuesday to prohibit the use of electric shock therapy on students after a report released last week revealed that a Massachusetts school has been electrically shocking its students, nearly half of whom are from New York state.The New York State Education Department (NYSED) report criticizes the [...]

June 22, 2006:

US: Parent censors, fights school censorship, over same MySpace post (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

UPPER DARBY, Pa. - The father of a high school student who was suspended for "inappropriate" journal postings on her MySpace.com Web site is challenging the girl's punishment.William Scantling said his daughter's constitutional rights were violated when the Upper Darby School District in suburban Philadelphia suspended her for two days because of comments generated from [...]

June 20, 2006:

US: The Pledge of Allegiance is socialist in origin (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

The Pledge of Allegiance court case is a blessing in disguise, by providing a temporary delay. It allows the fight to widen against the entire Pledge, not just two words. As a libertarian and a lawyer, too, I am spearheading the next court case as a pro bono service to the public to liberate Americans [...]

June 19, 2006:

Not school (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

Found a cool blog by a parent of 2 kids, about her experiences in unschooling them. Also contains a lot of interesting articles, news, and other random tidbits about why she decided to unschool her kids in the first place (because the school system is designed to hold kids back, not really educate them).[link]

US: Tougher attendance policy under consideration (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

WATERBURY, Conn. --A doctor's note may not be good enough for city school children who are absent because of illness under a tougher attendance policy under consideration by the Board of Education. Routine illness, even with note from a physician, would no longer be considered an excused absence under the policy proposed [...]

June 16, 2006:

UK: Cheating students outsource on Web (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Cheating students are using outsourcing Web sites where bidders compete to write their coursework for them, researchers have found.They have labelled the new twist on Internet plagiarism contract cheating and warn it could jeopardise the value of university degrees."What we have identified is a new type of cheating where students put [...]

US: Disabled kids get punished/injured with electric shocks (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

ALBANY, New York (AP) -- A state report on a Massachusetts school for the disabled said electric shocks were administered to students - sometimes as they bathed - for offenses as minor as nagging, swearing and sloppy appearance."Various injuries to students have been reported" at the Judge Rotenberg Center, according to the report released Wednesday [...]

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