Taiwan last week became the 109th country to ban all school corporal punishment, in private schools as well as public! Sonya Hsieh, a teacher from Taiwan exploring positive school discipline in the U.S. on a Taiwan Government grant, spoke last night in my home at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Discipline. She […]
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Good news about school corporal punishment
US: New bill to ban sale of devices used to beat children
A bill has been sponsored by US Representative Ed Markey to ban the advertising and sale of devices to whip and beat children in the US. This bill needs co-sponsors to get it moving and voted on.So, please write to your US Representative!! Enter your state & ZIP code at this Web page - http://www.house.gov/writerep/... […]
US: Sending the right back to school
"If you want highly skilled teachers who work investment banker hours, we have to pay them like - well, if not quite like investment bankers, then a lot more generously than we pay them now. This is the point most conservatives refuse to accept. They think you can supply the schools with dynamic, extremely hardworking […]
The Biggest Gamble of Your Life (Is College Worth it?)
December 7th, 2006Return to ArchiveIn 2005, young people (ages 18-25) in the US gambled $67 billion. Not in Vegas or online poker rooms, but on a betterment program called college. Their hope is that the monies they are spending will allow them to earn more money over their lifetime. Many are paying for this wager […]
US: No Child Left Behind applied behind bars
The Eager Street Academy is a Baltimore public school behind bars, with the most troubled student body in the city. Nonetheless, its staff has the impossible job of complying with the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Located in the Baltimore City Detention Center, the school's approximately 130 students - ages 14 to 17 - are […]
US: Charges Filed in Boot Camp Death
Seven former juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse were charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy, who was roughed up by the guards during a videotaped altercation.The announcement comes almost 11 months after Martin Lee Anderson collapsed on the exercise yard at the Bay County sheriff's boot camp in Panama […]
US: Mother beat 5-year-old to death because he couldn't count to 20
A 30-year-old woman convicted of beating her 5-year-old son to death because he could not count to 20 will serve a life sentence for capital murder.The jury deadlocked 11-1 Thursday on the death penalty for Towander Broadhead. It took less than hour to convict her of killing Kenderick Broadhead.Broadhead's daughter, 13-year-old Royteshia Perkins, testified Wednesday […]
Bullying.
bullying: reactions on bullying, that i thougt was great!... thanks. :) Robert said:"Ignore them. This is one of the hardest things to do, but it works. Ignoring the people who bully you will be hard, since they tend to come after you, but what worked for me was to start lifting weights. School is a […]
US: 'Your Home Education Program is Terminated!'
Hundreds of parents in Marion County were told by public school officials that their homeschools were no longer legal and that they had 10 days to enroll their children elsewhere. Our attorneys took action and quickly showed officials that they had made a mistake.==========How would you feel if you received an official letter from public […]
US: Student suspected of pinching a PS3 shot dead by cops
ARMED COPPERS shot dead a student they suspected of pinching a Playstation 3.The 18 year-old, Peyton Strickland, was killed last Friday as he went to answer a knock at the door. Outside was a band of heavily armed police who, it is suggested, blasted him to kingdom come because the games controller he had in […]
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