School Survival

This week thousands will be protesting the FTAA in Miami. Find out why they are there.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Britain's biggest classroom teaching union yesterday gave the go-ahead for a ballot for a boycott of next spring's national tests for seven- and 11-year-olds in England. The move jeopardises the tests due to be taken by millions of primary school children and may result in the most serious educational disruption for more than 10 years.Posted […]

Sir Charles Pollard, head of the Youth Justice Board, warned that weapon-carrying has become so widespread that some pupils now regard stabbings as acceptable if they avoid the heart.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Rennie- a friendly, helpful person, talented handy-man, and activist- was the recent target of atrocious abuse by the 3rd district police. He was wrongfully arrested, his home was illegally searched, his belongings were taken away, and his home was shut down. Read more to find out how you can help.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis FBI agent who accused bureau headquarters of bungling chances to foil the Sept. 11 attacks, is criticizing the Bush administration for "whittling away our civil liberties."Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Nearly 5,000 people, most of them young men or teenaged males, spent last weekend in Dallas killing one another in the bloodiest fashion possible.Aside from the occasional caffeine overdose, however, every one of the participants walked away without a scratch. A few even returned home with tens of thousands of dollars in prize money.The event […]

To many hackers of the underground world he was once known as TinY, but don't let the name fool you, with the click of a button he can instantly have 35 plus people monitoring your every online movement.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

In an effort to improve the nation's high schools, the Education Department has kicked off a campaign to get states to offer more rigorous courses and demand more of students before they go to college or work. The campaign will include a series of regional meetings on high school improvement, grants to help students prepare […]

SOUTH AFRICA: It is now possible to graduate from Nelson Mandela University, after Minister of Education Kader Asmal announced the new names of tertiary education institutions in South Africa. And technikons will also be given a new moniker, after he declared that the "name technikon be thrown into the rubbish bin of undistinguished apartheid measures."Posted […]

With the beginning of the fall school semester, the San Francisco Unified School District is setting a bold new standard for healthy school food. While many school districts around the nation are raising standards for food, San Francisco may be the first to adopt a "no empty calories" policy. The standard not only sets maximum […]