School Survival

The government should reconsider its decision to allow sixth-formers to opt out of religious worship, the Catholic Education Service (CES) says.The Education and Inspections Bill has been amended to let children over 16 withdraw from prayers, rather than their parents having to request it.But CES chief executive Oona Stannard said this change should be reversed […]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House announced Monday that President Bush has signed the Perkins Act, the first major update of the nation's vocational education law since 1998.Bush signed the law after Congress overwhelmingly rejected his attempts to scrap it.The law steers $1.3 billion a year into career-based courses in high schools and community colleges. […]

PORTAGE, Ind. -- An Indiana judge fed up with teenage traffic violators is kicking them in the seat -- the driver's seat.Porter Superior Judge Julia Jent is sentencing the ticketed teens to the embarrassment of riding the school bus, if they are found guilty in her courtroom.Jent got the idea after a girl in her […]

BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) - A store surveillance video captured footage of two small children sneaking behind display cases to steal thousands of dollars in jewelry, apparently on instructions from their mother and grandmother.Bedford police made the video public this week and said Wednesday that they believe they are close to making arrests. They started getting […]

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) - For the last three summers, 13-year-old Joey Cadieux has headed outside with his flashlight on rainy nights to collect nightcrawlers from his yard.Purchased by passing fishermen for $2.50 a dozen, the wriggling worms brought him $7 to $10 in a good month, just enough for bike trips to his favorite neighborhood […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A father and four guards at a juvenile detention center were acquitted Thursday of breaking the law by taking the man's teenage son on a frightening visit to the lockup in hopes of scaring him straight."I don't think what you did rises to criminal conduct," Judge David Cashman said in acquitting the […]

A Newport couple have been jailed for four months for failing to ensure their 14-year-old daughter went to school.Newport magistrates heard Shlaine Haine had a long record of truancy. From January to July 2006 she was at school for only six out of a possible 113 daysChristopher and Deborah Haine, both 41, had already been […]

The number of students caught cheating or misbehaving in GCSE and A-level examinations in Northern Ireland has risen, the CCEA has said.The most common offence was bringing mobile phones into the exam hall, while copying from the internet in coursework projects was also detected.However, the biggest increase was in disruptive behaviour and disobeying the exam […]

The "networked generation" is driving a radical shift in media consumption, says UK telecoms regulator Ofcom.Sixteen to 24 year olds are spurning television, radio and newspapers in favour of online services, says the regulator's study.The 2006 Ofcom report also found that increasingly households are turning to broadband and digital TV.And it notes 1.8 million homes […]

Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners.These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this […]