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Seattle Teacher Suspended for Refusing to Give Standardized Test (11 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

PARENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK - Carl Chew, a 6th grade science teacher at Nathan Eckstein Middle School in the Seattle School District, last week defied federal, state, and district regulations that require teachers to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning to students."I have let my administration know that I will no longer give the WASL [...]

April 23, 2008:

Sharply split panel passes bill on Ariz. school 'hate speech' (4 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

PHOENIX - Arizona schools whose courses "denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization" could lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a state House panel.SB 1108 also would bar teaching practices that "overtly encourage dissent" from those values, including democracy, capitalism, pluralism and religious toleration. Schools would have to [...]

April 15, 2008:

US: California Homeschooling Case Might Improve (6 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

On Feb. 28, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District found in the case of In re: Rachel L. that a homeschooling family involved in a juvenile court proceeding did not have a right to homeschool in California unless the children's teacher held a California teaching credential. That decision sent shock waves [...]

Fake divorce to get school places (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Spanish family court judges believe parents are divorcing to increase their children's chances of getting into their preferred state school.Spain is certainly not the only country where the government-funded school system is regularly under the spotlight over concerns about the quality of the education and the need to improve standards. Finding a good state school [...]

April 13, 2008:

I made a new site (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

It's not specifically about school though. It's basically my collection of pages and text files I saved over the years. Gives me a nice excuse to go through them all and sort out what's interesting... and the interesting stuff finds its way onto the site. I haven't added everything yet (still about 10 million folders [...]

A year after Va. Tech, helping troubled students (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

The rampage carried out nearly a year ago by a deranged Virginia Tech student who slipped through the mental health system has changed how American colleges reach out to troubled students.Administrators are pushing students harder to get help, looking more aggressively for signs of trouble and urging faculty to speakup when they have concerns. Counselors [...]

April 12, 2008:

CCTV could be used in exam rooms (3 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

CCTV cameras could be used in examination halls to catch cheats and prevent unfounded complaints against invigilators.The Examination Officers' Association is planning to test the idea in a handful of exam centres.It says exam cheats are using increasingly hi-tech methods and that invigilators themselves fear a rising number of complaints from students.Some schools and colleges [...]

April 11, 2008:

Teacher petrified' after being attacked by student (7 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Six days after she was sucker punched and beaten in her own Baltimore classroom, high school art teacher Jolita Berry still finds it almost impossible to watch the MySpace video of the attack. And she can't make herself go back to work."I am petrified to go back to that particular building," Berry told TODAY's Matt [...]

April 8, 2008:

Parish Police Jury Considers Curfew for Youngsters (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

MONROE (TV8) - Remember your parents saying there's nothing out late at night but trouble?Well, Ouachita deputies agree with your parents.They say that youth crimes often happen late at night when they should be at home.As KNOE 8 News Reporter Dustin Barnes tells us, deputies say an enforced curfew would deter those petty acts.Now that [...]

April 7, 2008:

Daycare locked down after man found impaled by pole (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

A daycare in a North York elementary school was under lockdown this morning after a bizarre incident in which a man was found dangling from a tree and impaled by a metal stake.A parent dropping off a child at Roywood Public School - in the York Mills Rd. and Victoria Park Ave. area - called [...]

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