School Survival

ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian -- each faith has its holy days. Schools across the country are asking how to respect them all.Consider the University at Albany, which canceled classes on major Muslim holidays. Faculty wanted the move out of concern for Muslim students after the September 11 […]

Education Secretary officially disregards learning as an important thing in schools, and says there should be lots more emphasis on results and tests.=======The pressure on England's teachers to get pupils through tests and improve school results should be intensified, said Education Secretary Alan Johnson.Mr Johnson told a committee of MPs league tables were "absolutely the […]

Note how the emphasis is on getting teens to delay sex, instead of giving them unbiased information and letting them decide what THEY really want.=====NEW YORK (Reuters) -- After participating in a two-week sexual education program designed and implemented by an academic medical center, more middle-school students said they would hold off on having sex […]

Abraham Cherrix, 16, went through chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease that left him so weak that his father carried the 6-foot-1 youth from the car to the house. Doctors tell him he needs a second round of chemo to get rid of the cancer that reappeared in February.Abraham says no, and his parents are backing him […]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Schools usually keep outsiders away from student records. Not in Louisville, Kentucky.With the blessing of students' parents, the Jefferson County public school system lets private afterschool centers tap directly into the school database to see grades, attendance, disciplinary problems and details of life at home.The thinking goes like this: If schools and […]

A third of children in the UK use blogs and social network websites but two thirds of parents do not even know what they are, a survey suggests.The children's charity NCH said there was "an alarming gap" in technological knowledge between generations.Even when parents had put controls on what youngsters could access, almost half the […]

"Young people aren't turning away from mainstream media because they don't care about current events but because the media don't know how to connect with them." - Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks.Cuban made that comment in his blog about is working with Dan Rather to start a new tv show. Interesting, isn't it, […]

A group of 14 former pupils at a Birmingham school loved their time in class so much they have all returned to take up jobs there.Most of the group are teachers at St Paul's School for Girls in Edgbaston, with others taking up support jobs.The ex-pupils have even given a name to their exclusive club, […]

One in 166 children are diagnosed with autism. We look at how parents struggle to care for their children in a school system that is not prepared. (Part 1 of 2)With a full head of thick berry-red hair and large auburn eyes, Dante Squarzon is a beautiful child. At the dining room table of his […]

FRAMINGHAM High School in the land of the free is demanding the right to take students' cell phones and to search them for evidence of criminal activity.The action, which is well above the usual "confiscate the phone until after school", is angering students becasue it infringes their privacy rights.School administrators say that they need to […]