Guwahati: The Assam government today introduced a tough legislation banning corporal punishment in schools with provision for prosecuting errant teachers, including suspension and even termination from service. The Assam Corporal Punishment for Educational Institutions (Prohibition) Bill, 2010, would be placed before the Assam assembly for a final nod when it meets on March 2 for […]
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Tough law against corporal punishment in Assam schools
Facebook gripes protected by free speech, ruling says
A former Florida high school student who was suspended by her principal after she set up a Facebook page to criticize her teacher is protected constitutionally under the First Amendment, a federal magistrate ruled. U.S. Magistrate Barry Garber's ruling, in a case viewed as important by Internet watchers, denied the principal's motion to dismiss the […]
In Utah, a plan to cut 12th grade
The proposal by state Sen. Chris Buttars would chip away at Utah's $700-million shortfall. He's since offered a toned-down version: Just make senior year optional. Reporting from Denver - At Utah's West Jordan High School, the halls have swirled lately with debate over the merits of 12th grade: Is it a waste of time? Are […]
Teacher kills 3 professors at university
Grieving relatives of three professors gunned down at a university faculty meeting questioned why their accused colleague was hired despite a dispute with a former boss who received a pipe bomb and the shooting death of her brother. Amy Bishop is charged in the three deaths and the wounding of three other professors at a […]
Boy, 12, faces grown up murder charges
On a chilly morning in February 2009, state police found 26-year-old Kenzie Houk in her bed with a bullet though her head. She was eight months pregnant. The search for her killer ended with the most surprising murder suspect residents of Wampum, Pennsylvania, had ever seen: 11-year-old Jordan Brown, the son of the victim's fiancé. […]
New Research Supports John Holt's Views About Learning
by Pat Farenga One of the core ideas of John Holt’s approach to education is that children are good at learning. John asserted in the early sixties, often and clearly, that children are natural learners and that adult interference in their attempts to learn, often through uninvited teaching, inhibits children’s learning. This idea continues to […]
15-year-old seattle girl was beaten as security watches
A 15-year-old girl was brutally beaten and kicked in the head by a gang of other teenagers on a Seattle bus platform while several security guards stood by and watched. In the chilling surveillance video that caught the assault on tape, the victim is seen being jumped from behind by another girl in front of […]
Pa. school officials defend actions in webcam case
Administrators at a suburban Philadelphia school district are defending their actions after being accused of spying on students via their laptop computer webcams. The Lower Merion School District admits to remotely activating webcams 42 times in an effort to find missing, lost or stolen computers. But officials say the webcam images were never used to […]
Aussies rebel over Internet censorship
INTERNET HACKERS connected with the group Anonymous, which is better known for its attacks against Scientology, have launched a campaign against Australian government websites. The group is protesting against the Australian government's determination to censor its citizens' Internet connections. The government has indicated that as part of its censorship campaign all pictures of small breasted […]
Future Australians to begin school earlier and stay in school longer
WE'VE all heard of Gen X, Gen Y, even Gen Z - but in January we go to a whole new alphabet and welcome to the world the next instalment: Generation Alpha. Social researchers and sociologists claim the babies born into new Generation Alpha - dubbed Gen A - will be the most formally educated […]
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