Over the last two years, while serving as Senior Superintendent of Alternative Schools and Programs, I have visited New York City public school programs in church basements, housing projects, homeless shelters, storefronts, suspension centers, juvenile detention centers, and prisons. I ventured into places that few department of education officials would dare go. Most pretend these […]
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US: Recycle bins for "problem" students
New articles section
I added a new subsection of articles about youth rights and related stuff, moved a few articles out of the school category and into the new one, and added a few new ones I found at oblivion.net.[link]
US: Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car
The star at last week's Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car - one that combines performance and practicality under one hood.But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades comes from an unexpected […]
The End of the Blogosphere?
The digital gatekeepers want to set up the virtual equivalent of tolls.Blogs have gained a growing cultural and political impact in the United States and worldwide. In the United States, they've been credited with playing a key role the resignation of a U.S. Senate Majority Leader and the public repudiation of a longtime TV news […]
US: Nerve agent to be dumped into Delaware
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won't oppose the U.S. Department of Defense and DuPont Co.'s plan to dump a wastewater byproduct of a deadly nerve agent into the Delaware River.The agency said it's assured of a safe treatment for up to 4 million gallons of caustic wastewater created in the treatment for VX, a chemical […]
NZ: "I hate school but I can't believe it's on fire"
Flames ripped through the Hastings Intermediate School hall yesterday evening destroying the building and most of the school's administration block.The 10m x 30m hall was well ablaze when fire crews arrived at the school in the suburb of Akina about 6.30pm and took more than an hour to control.Ten fire appliances, from Hastings, Napier and […]
US: School refuses to let family homeschool due to missing textbooks
The McAuliffes started homeschooling in the 2005-06 school year. About Christmas time, the family received a court summons from the public school district.They were ordered to appear before a judge for criminal truancy charges. The family contacted the Home School Legal Defense Association, and HSLDA assigned the case to Texas Counsel, Tom Sanders, to intervene […]
AUS: National anthem to become compulsory in schools
Sydney - Schools across New South Wales will be forced to play the Australian national anthem before class under a radical state government plan to create respect in a community blighted by recent race riots.Teachers at primary schools will be required to introduce ``Australian values'' studies from the beginning of this school year while the […]
UK: Bad behavior caused by 'poor mental health', apparently
It is thought there is a link between conduct problems in adolescence and then problems in adulthood.The burden of poor mental health among children needs to be tackled to help in later life, said Aberdeen University.The
UK: Bully victim's suffering payout
A 23-year-old woman has been given a payment of
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