School Survival

Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners.These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this […]

The "networked generation" is driving a radical shift in media consumption, says UK telecoms regulator Ofcom.Sixteen to 24 year olds are spurning television, radio and newspapers in favour of online services, says the regulator's study.The 2006 Ofcom report also found that increasingly households are turning to broadband and digital TV.And it notes 1.8 million homes […]

The number of students caught cheating or misbehaving in GCSE and A-level examinations in Northern Ireland has risen, the CCEA has said.The most common offence was bringing mobile phones into the exam hall, while copying from the internet in coursework projects was also detected.However, the biggest increase was in disruptive behaviour and disobeying the exam […]

A Newport couple have been jailed for four months for failing to ensure their 14-year-old daughter went to school.Newport magistrates heard Shlaine Haine had a long record of truancy. From January to July 2006 she was at school for only six out of a possible 113 daysChristopher and Deborah Haine, both 41, had already been […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A father and four guards at a juvenile detention center were acquitted Thursday of breaking the law by taking the man's teenage son on a frightening visit to the lockup in hopes of scaring him straight."I don't think what you did rises to criminal conduct," Judge David Cashman said in acquitting the […]

How many parents would say that as their teenager gets older and shows more and more maturity, that is the time to begin clamping down and placing more restrictions on him? It does not make sense. Most parents would be glad to allow their teenager more freedom if he is demonstrating he can be trusted […]

(This article is from 2004, but still seriously disturbing.) THE screaming starts at 11am sharp each day in the basement of the Raby care home near Prague. That is when a little boy called Vasek Knotek is locked in his cage.For a brief period each morning Vasek, who is about five, is let out to […]

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a high school student who was suspended for writing about a dream in which a student shoots a math teacher.In his Tuesday order, U.S. District Senior Judge Marvin Shoob said the writings were "sufficiently disturbing" to support the school system's disciplinary action against […]

This past Sunday, youth rights activists from around the country, from as far as Washington, D.C., came to the National Youth Rights Association's (NYRA) annual meeting (www.youthrights.org) in San Francisco to discuss ageism in the community and what progress the individual regional chapters have made to combat it. Five people from NYRA's Berkeley chapter, including […]

With a new school year about to begin, some female students in one Texas school district may have to rethink their wardrobes.Teen fashions often leave parents a little disgruntled. Arlington Independent School District parent Frances Henson said, "I'm thinking that our daughters are growing up a little bit too fast these days."Arlington School Board members […]