School Survival

A SEVEN-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework.She was made to strip completely naked and stand on a desk in her class on Friday while other students were asked to boo her."The teacher was arrested on a complaint by the parents but […]

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - A suburban Atlanta couple was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 30 years in prison in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the family's church because it supports corporal punishment.Prosecutors said Joseph and Sonya Smith beat their son Josef, locked him in a wooden […]

Children with ADHD have less activity in parietal brain areas while performing attention-demanding problem-solving tasks. Credit: UQA team of researchers working with UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has discovered more compelling evidence that attention-deficit disorder in young boys is substantially attributable to brain development.UQ neuroscientist, Dr Ross Cunnington said there appeared to be a biological […]

Channel 4 News Online reveals that the number of children being schooled at home has risen by more than 60 per cent in the past five years.More than 80 per cent of education authorities reported hikes in the number of children being educated at home, according to the Freedom of Information (FoI) probe.In one area […]

MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukova Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto […]

Teens exposed to second-hand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health."Our retrospective study suggests that in adolescents, second-hand smoke exposure could interfere with academic test performance," said lead author Bradley Collins, assistant professor of public health and director of the […]

On September 13th, 2006, Kimveer Gill walked onto the bustling campus of Dawson College in Montreal and began to fire at random. Hours later, he was dead - but the story was just beginning. In the days to follow, the amateur computer game "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" would be named by the mainstream media as […]

Petr was kind enough to send me an Italian translation for the intro page :) If you can help out translating into any other languages, please let me know. I also re-opened the ramblings section for anonymous posting. Hopefully it won't get spammed too much though.[link]

NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca says parents should not allow their school-aged children to participate in major APEC protests because they could find themselves in a potentially "dangerous situation".Mr Della Bosca says major protest groups such as Resistance, Mutiny and the Stop Bush Coalition were actively recruiting students to attend APEC protests early next […]

It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads -- all at a parent's fingertips. AT&T Inc., the nation's largest wireless carrier, will launch a service […]