School Survival

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.The End of the Internet?Jeff ChesterThe NationThe nation's largest telephone and cable companies […]

The Bush Administration has demanded access to internet searches conducted on four major seach engines: Google, MSN, AOL and Yahoo. Of the four only Google has refused to comply with the governments demands. The Bush Administration is claiming they want to use the information to determine how much porn shows up in internet searches conducted […]

The most Earth-like planet yet discovered beyond the solar system has been detected orbiting a distant star, boosting the chances that life exists elsewhere in the galaxy.The icy, rocky world is just five times larger than our own, making it the smallest and most similar to Earth of all the 160 "exoplanets" around other stars […]

In Kate Lamonda's class, small groups of children in 2nd and 3rd grades sit clustered around large tables, where they are separated by level of skill rather than age. A 7-year-old is working on the same poetry writing assignment as a 9-year-old, with one helping the other.Lincoln School in Mundelein is a boutique, offering an […]

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SOFTWARE King of the World Sir William Gates III has warned governments across the globe that it is useless to censor Internet sites.King Willy said that once a country was plugged into the world wide web the ability to withhold information does not exist as information can be sent in emails or other more untrackable […]

SADDAM HUSSEIN watched his own trial on television yesterday after all of the eight defendants refused to attend the session, chaired by a tough new chief judge who has cracked down on the deposed leader's theatrical outbursts.Facing three rows of empty seats in court, Raouf Abdel Rahman, the Kurdish chief judge, said that he had […]

The Secret Service is investigating a seventh-grader who wrote a school essay that authorities say advocated violence against President Bush, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and others.The boy's homework assignment for English class was to write what he would do on a perfect day. In addition to the president and Winfrey, the boy wrote that […]

LAST WEEK, a federal judge ruled that the Massachusetts Medicaid program has failed to provide medically necessary, legally required services to seriously mentally ill children. It's a tough rebuke, but a sound call for a better mental health system.United States District Judge Michael Ponsor wrote that the question was whether Massachusetts had ''kept the promise […]

Dear Friends, As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is […]