School Survival

In Kate Lamonda's class, small groups of children in 2nd and 3rd grades sit clustered around large tables, where they are separated by level of skill rather than age. A 7-year-old is working on the same poetry writing assignment as a 9-year-old, with one helping the other.Lincoln School in Mundelein is a boutique, offering an […]

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SOFTWARE King of the World Sir William Gates III has warned governments across the globe that it is useless to censor Internet sites.King Willy said that once a country was plugged into the world wide web the ability to withhold information does not exist as information can be sent in emails or other more untrackable […]

SADDAM HUSSEIN watched his own trial on television yesterday after all of the eight defendants refused to attend the session, chaired by a tough new chief judge who has cracked down on the deposed leader's theatrical outbursts.Facing three rows of empty seats in court, Raouf Abdel Rahman, the Kurdish chief judge, said that he had […]

The Secret Service is investigating a seventh-grader who wrote a school essay that authorities say advocated violence against President Bush, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and others.The boy's homework assignment for English class was to write what he would do on a perfect day. In addition to the president and Winfrey, the boy wrote that […]

LAST WEEK, a federal judge ruled that the Massachusetts Medicaid program has failed to provide medically necessary, legally required services to seriously mentally ill children. It's a tough rebuke, but a sound call for a better mental health system.United States District Judge Michael Ponsor wrote that the question was whether Massachusetts had ''kept the promise […]

Dear Friends, As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is […]

The international community has given Iran a "final opportunity" to meet its nuclear obligations, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.Straw met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki for more than an hour Wednesday. The pair also met Tuesday at a conference on Afghanistan in London."He (Mottaki) really needs to see this agreed position by […]

A study of 950,000 Swedish men has shown that taller men get a better education, a researcher said on Wednesday.The study, to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, could suggest short people are discriminated against as they are expected to be low achievers, said researcher Finn Rasmussen at Sweden's Karolinska Institute."The probability of […]

President Bush's call to break the U.S. "addiction" to oil generally drew a mixture of skepticism and hope abroad Wednesday, while the president of OPEC said such a change in energy policy wasn't possible in such a short time.The French daily Le Monde expressed doubt that Bush could reach his goal of cutting oil imports […]