School Survival

According to The New York Times, reported on Sunday, December 11th, 2005, newly disclosed email messages from the FBI include some which bemoan the "radical, militant librarians" who resist releasing their records for terrorism investigations. "Radical, militant librarians" is a concept I have a lot of trouble getting my brain around. By "radical" and "militant," […]

Allowing schools and colleges to design their own curriculum would boost the rate of 16 year olds staying in education, research suggests. The curriculum should be more responsive to local employment needs, the Institute for Public Policy Research report says. Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Putting a child through nursery education helps set them up for "success" in later life, a study suggests. The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) research found adults with pre-school education were more likely to be employed and earning higher salaries. [Yep, teach 'em to be doormats earlier on, will help prevent all that 'teen rebellion' […]

A report into the suicide of a 13-year-old girl recommends that schools should be given clearer guidance on homophobic bullying. Laura died in 2004 after taking an overdose of painkillers in a suicide pact with a friend who survived. She had disclosed that she thought she might be gay and had also been teased about […]

Katherine Jashinski is the first female soldier to refuse to participate in the Iraq war. Her refusal could change the face of the anti-war movement.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Gina Score was never much of an athlete. At five feet four inches tall and 226 pounds, the eighth-grader was in no condition for strenuous exercise. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where military-style discipline ("Quitting is not an option") prevailed.The second day, July 21, 1999, […]

A Jasper County mother says her 8th grade son found a video camera taping in the school bathroom this week. But now, he is the one in trouble. Cindy Champion says her son, Mac Bedor, and a few of his friends took the camera out of the ceiling because they felt it violated their privacy.Posted […]

Since the U.S. Supreme Court banned the promotion of religion in public schools in 1963, the Bible has virtually disappeared from most American classrooms. Now, a new textbook for high school students aims to fill a gap by teaching the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, in a non-sectarian, nonreligious way as a central […]

On Nov.2, 20 college students in Virginia staged a walkout on the World Can't Wait day of action. The school administration shut down the protest and threatened to expel them.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A much-publicised scheme to stop families in England going on holiday in term-time has finally begun. It is hoped the scheme will help reduce current estimates that one in six truants on a given day is away with their parents on a family holiday.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article