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Long school holidays 'should end' (8 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Long school holidays in England should be cut to prevent children falling behind in class, a report has said.The Institute for Public Policy Research said studies suggested pupils' reading and maths abilities regressed because the summer break was too long.Instead, the think-tank said the school year could have five eight-week terms, with a month off [...]

May 29, 2008:

Students Arrested For Protesting Dress Code (4 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Students at McLoughlin Middle School are learning that civil disobedience comes at a cost. In the past two weeks, four eighth-grade boys have been arrested and charged with misdemeanors for leading protests against the school's dress code. About 20 more students have been suspended.Parents of those students are wondering whether this tough-love approach has gone [...]

May 26, 2008:

16-year-old finds way to make plastic decompose faster (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat [...]

May 25, 2008:

12 Funny Reasons Why School is Good for You (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM

New page in the Comic Relief section: 12 Funny Reasons Why School is Good for You. It's a parody of the various reasons people give as to why school is good for you. If you like it, add it to as many social bookmarking sites as you can (digg, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, etc). :)[link]

May 24, 2008:

Students in New York collectively refuse to take test (3 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher May Get Fired.----AMY GOODMAN: Very quickly, you did a story yesterday: "New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher May Get Ax." He was fired, and what happened?JUAN GONZALEZ: Yeah. Well, this is an amazing story in the South Bronx at an intermediate school. Last week, 160 [...]

Student Sent Home For '69' T-Shirt (4 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

BOSTON -- A Billerica, Mass., mother is furious after her 14-year-old daughter was suspended for a day from her middle school for wearing a T-shirt that said "SOPHOMORE 69."Christina Morrison, an eighth-grader at the Marshall Middle School, was sent to the office Tuesday when she arrived at school wearing the shirt. The assistant principal told [...]

May 21, 2008:

Acceptance of Homeschooling Grows but Myths Persist (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

How we see ourselves and how others perceive us can be very different. That's one of the lessons from a recent survey by Ellison Research that looked at public attitudes toward various education options.On a five-point scale regarding the overall quality of education, public school received a 3 and homeschooling a 3.14. According to Ron [...]

School Confiscates Cell Phones After Nude Photos of Junior High Girls Circulate (5 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Police in a Galveston County, Texas, school district have been confiscating dozens of cell phones from students after nude pictures of two junior high girls began circulating, the district superintendent said."Those students forwarded the images and the circle opened up and got wider and wider," Superintendent Jon Whittemore said Tuesday.He said that it all started [...]

May 18, 2008:

Schools try to aid disadvantaged children, but pressure to help the family often trumps an education (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Eventually, it all became too much for Jonathan Cole -- the time missed from school to take care of his siblings; the repeated moves to new schools; the realization that he was getting further and further behind his classmates. So, he took the path that many children bearing the burden of poverty take: He dropped [...]

May 16, 2008:

Woman Accused of Driving Girl to Suicide Is Indicted (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES - In a highly unusual use of a federal law generally employed in computer fraud cases, a federal grand jury here on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman accused of using a phony online identity to trick and taunt a 13-year-old girl, who committed suicide in response to the cyberbaiting.The woman, Lori Drew, was [...]

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