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RIP Saddam Hussein (3 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Saddam Hussein is dead. The former president of Iraq was executed by hanging at around 6am local time. The execution took place in a Justice Ministry facility in northern Baghdad. The decision to execute Saddam and his fellow defendants today was apparently taken after a phone call between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal [...]
December 26, 2006:
Homeschoolers Need Your Help in Germany and Other Countries (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
In this Christmas season we have an opportunity to help support homeschoolers who are struggling in other countries. We can make a difference for the "least of these," our bothers and sisters who are faced with legal challenges and lack of finances.We have sent out information periodically on Germany. The situation, unfortunately, is not getting [...]
December 19, 2006:
Student Faces Charges In Semen-In-Dressing Case (4 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
(CBS) WHEATON, Ill. A high school student is facing criminal charges after school officials say he ejaculated into the cafeteria salad dressing.Marco Castro, 17, was charged with one count each of attempted aggravated battery and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, Wheaton police said.Castro is accused of spiking a container of cafeteria salad dressing at Wheaton [...]
Teen Expelled From School For Turning In Found Gun (4 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Plainfield Student's Parents Say The Punishment Doesn't Make Sense(CBS) PLAINFIELD, Ill. A 13-year-old Plainfield boy and his parents are stunned and outraged after the teen found a gun in school and turned it in to authorities, who then expelled him.CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports Ryan Morgan's parents and supporters attended the school board meeting Wednesday [...]
December 15, 2006:
Good news about school corporal punishment (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Taiwan last week became the 109th country to ban all school corporal punishment, in private schools as well as public! Sonya Hsieh, a teacher from Taiwan exploring positive school discipline in the U.S. on a Taiwan Government grant, spoke last night in my home at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Discipline. She [...]
December 13, 2006:
US: New bill to ban sale of devices used to beat children (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
A bill has been sponsored by US Representative Ed Markey to ban the advertising and sale of devices to whip and beat children in the US. This bill needs co-sponsors to get it moving and voted on.So, please write to your US Representative!! Enter your state & ZIP code at this Web page - http://www.house.gov/writerep/... [...]
December 11, 2006:
US: Sending the right back to school (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
"If you want highly skilled teachers who work investment banker hours, we have to pay them like - well, if not quite like investment bankers, then a lot more generously than we pay them now. This is the point most conservatives refuse to accept. They think you can supply the schools with dynamic, extremely hardworking [...]
The Biggest Gamble of Your Life (Is College Worth it?) (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
December 7th, 2006Return to ArchiveIn 2005, young people (ages 18-25) in the US gambled $67 billion. Not in Vegas or online poker rooms, but on a betterment program called college. Their hope is that the monies they are spending will allow them to earn more money over their lifetime. Many are paying for this wager [...]
December 9, 2006:
US: No Child Left Behind applied behind bars (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
The Eager Street Academy is a Baltimore public school behind bars, with the most troubled student body in the city. Nonetheless, its staff has the impossible job of complying with the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Located in the Baltimore City Detention Center, the school's approximately 130 students - ages 14 to 17 - are [...]
December 6, 2006:
US: Charges Filed in Boot Camp Death (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Seven former juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse were charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy, who was roughed up by the guards during a videotaped altercation.The announcement comes almost 11 months after Martin Lee Anderson collapsed on the exercise yard at the Bay County sheriff's boot camp in Panama [...]
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