School Survival

A new Gallup poll conducted for Phi Delta Kappa International, whose education surveys command high respect in the teaching profession, reveals a compelling motivation for the fierce opposition teacher union leaders and most public school officials show toward school vouchers: Most students wouldn't attend public schools if they had a voucher.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A federal judge has ruled that high school student Bretton Barber may legally wear an anti-war shirt to school with a picture of President Bush above the words "International Terrorist". The American Civil Liberties Union had intervened on Barber's behalf after the principal had ordered him to cover up the shirt or go home.Posted by: […]

In 1991 Antoinette McCormick was shipped to the Persian Gulf as a jet mechanic with the United States Navy. 12 years later she returned, but this time she was not in uniform and hers was a non-combat battalion. She was a "human shield."Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

The state of Washington is joining the fray over whether it should be illegal to sell or rent mature games to children. A state bill, which passed out of the state's House last week, makes it a US$500 fine to sell or rent violent video games to minors.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

"If you don't clap, then you get detention." The face of the menacing teacher giving us this new rule angered me. Who was he to tell us whom to clap for? Who was he to tell us whom to like or dislike? For two days, the news that Gov. Sonny Purdue was coming to our […]

ABCNews is reporting on a 19-year-old college student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He created a site named ChewPlastic.com where students could search for files on the university network. Mind you, this is not a music file sharing software, this is just a search engine. Presumably, the search engine was being used to […]

Schools that do not allow girls to wear trousers as part of their uniform should change their policy, says the Equal Opportunities Commission.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

While some adults may shake their heads at the changing lexicon of students, Sara Matthews noticed much the same phenomenon in the language of educators. The current word of fashionable choice is "rigorous." All schools proudly claim to be "rigorous," and all teachers within schools are eager to have their classes and curricula be rigorous. […]

Susan and Edmund Benson boldly broke ground in 1986 when they made the decision to establish ARISE, a not-for-profit foundation, in response to escalating problems of high-risk children and young adults whose future seemed unpromising at best. These youths, besieged by sexual promiscuity, teen pregnancy, overuse of drugs and alcohol, domestic abuse, and violence, live […]

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