School Survival

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Cheating students are using outsourcing Web sites where bidders compete to write their coursework for them, researchers have found.They have labelled the new twist on Internet plagiarism contract cheating and warn it could jeopardise the value of university degrees."What we have identified is a new type of cheating where students put […]

ALBANY, New York (AP) -- A state report on a Massachusetts school for the disabled said electric shocks were administered to students - sometimes as they bathed - for offenses as minor as nagging, swearing and sloppy appearance."Various injuries to students have been reported" at the Judge Rotenberg Center, according to the report released Wednesday […]

It is a dark day in the history of America when an eighth-grader commits suicide after participating in a student walkout, protesting anti-immigrant legislature. On March 30, Anthony Soltero -- an organizer of his school's walkout -- shot himself in the head after the administration of De Anza Middle School in Ontario, Calif., threatened Soltero […]

In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.In settings where cellphone use is forbidden - in class, for example - it is perfect for […]

Going too far: Two proposed laws want to punish online 'bad-talkers' by revealing their identities to anyone who finds them offensive.Our lives are led increasingly online. According to the Pew Internet and American Life study, "the web has become the "new normal" in the American way of life." We buy and sell online, date, discuss […]

One principal in the UK goes into kids' homes and TAKES their computers, TV's and game consoles out of their rooms, and forces them to "earn" it back if their "behaviour" improves. Parents are supporting and encouraging this, and the kids mentioned in this article seem to think it's a good idea as well...Here's the […]

AFTER YEARS OF insisting that VeriChip RFID technology will not be used for Big Brother purposes, the company's chairman has proposed tagging immigrant and guest workers in the United States.Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation seems to have got carried away when being interviewed on "Fox & Friends" when responding to the […]

This is pretty inspirational if you read the whole thing...=====Like ninjas, a group of students slinked into the back of the room. They were dressed a little differently than others at the meeting: ties replaced with necklaces, shiny shoes with torn-up Chucks, slacks with kilts and stockings with fishnet. Alright, the group wasn't discrete at […]

Peter Damon, a National Guardsman from Middleborough, has announced he is suing Fahrenheit 9/11 filmaker Michael Moore for $85 million dollars.Damon is claiming that Moore used a video interview of Damon which portrayed him as anti-war. Damon states that his interview was taken out of context and that his original interview refered to the pain […]

China will scramble mobile phone signals in some exam halls and have police stand guard in a bid to stop cheating, as millions of students take the highly competitive college entrance exams this month, state media said Friday.Some 9.5 million young people will take the June 7-8 college entrance exams, but only one in four […]