Parents could soon be using their iPhones to monitor a child's blood glucose levels throughout the day, whether that child is at school or at the beach.Of course, there are already dozens of iPhone apps available for tracking exercise, diet, and blood pressure-things where you type in the information yourself. But this new tool, unveiled […]
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IPhone Could Soon Help Parents Track Kids' Health From Afar
Obama on education
Obama's recent speech on education reform.REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON A COMPLETE AND COMPETITIVE AMERICAN EDUCATIONCourtesy of www.whitehouse.gov; Office of the Press Secretary; March 10th, 2009Send us your thoughts! We'll post reactions on Friday, March 20th. E-mail them to info@educationrevolution.orgWashington Marriott Metro CenterWashington, D.C.9:54 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you. […]
Terminally ill boy given truancy warning
A SHEPSHED school has apologised for sending a letter about truancy to the mother of a boy suffering from leukaemia after she asked to take him out of classes to meet the Pope.Louise Yates, of Cumbrian Way, wants to take her six-year-old son Travis on a two-day trip to the Vatican in June for a […]
'Scared Straight' program scares truants back into class
(Old news, but still important) To Joel, the choice was simple: Go to school and be ridiculed because he had a hard time reading or stay home and smoke pot with his friends.So the 16-year-old Santa Ana boy skipped hundreds of days in his first two years of high school, until ditching caught up with […]
German school gunman 'kills 15'
Fifteen people have been killed after a teenage gunman went on a rampage in south-west Germany, officials say. Most of the dead are thought to have been pupils at the Albertville secondary school in Winnenden, north of Stuttgart. The gunman, a 17-year-old former pupil, is also dead, police say. The teenager, who was said to […]
Parents face court action for removing children from gay history lessons
Parents face possible court action for withdrawing their children from lessons on gay and lesbian history. More than 30 pupils were pulled out of a week of teaching at a primary school which included books about homosexual partnerships. The controversial content was worked into the curriculum at George Tomlinson School in Waltham Forest, East London.The […]
Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Sudan's Leader
PARIS - Judges at the International Criminal Court ordered the arrest Wednesday of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan for atrocities committed in Darfur, but Sudanese officials swiftly retaliated, ordering Western aid groups that provide for millions of people to shut down their operations and leave.Skip to next paragraphDemonstrations in support of President Omar Hassan […]
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