School Survival

A Texas man executed in 1993 for a robbery-murder was probably wrongfully convicted, according to a prosecutor, the jury forewoman, an alibi witness and even a victim, the Houston Chronicle said on Tuesday.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Now if you post a URL in a comment, news post or in a rambling, it will automatically turn into a link :) Also, the wallpaper section is back, and a poetry section (people can submit now), and there's a store: http://cafepress.com/schoolsur... with t-shirts and all sorts of things.

The public has spoken! Power to the people! The masses smote the faceless monolithic corporate entity, which now cowers in shame!I'm speaking, of course, about the spectacular turnaround in the attitude of Sony BMG records. Last week, I wrote in this space about the nasty copy-protection software that the company installed on several dozen of […]

DES MOINES, Iowa -- In the Story County town of Roland, the new mayor hasn't graduated from high school yet. Sam Juhl, 18, got 48 percent of the vote. He will be sworn in as Roland's mayor in January.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

(Kids apparently completely unaware that soldiers kill people in Iraq). - "We know you're going to do a great job," reads one letter, which contains a heavily traced outstretched hand and the words "Let's Pray" written inside.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

(OK, so the previous baby news post was apparently a "false alarm"... Or was it?) - What about the section on becoming "a skilful communicator"? No, there was nothing there about parsing sentences or learning grammar. Instead children are to be encouraged in conversation and to "enjoy sharing stories, songs, rhymes, and games". (they don't […]

A proposed "national curriculum" for babies and toddlers in England has received a mixed response. Under the Childcare Bill, childminders would teach the curriculum to children "from birth" - with some worrying that it might be too prescriptive.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A New Jersey school district will pay $117,500 to a student who was punished for creating a website that included critical statements about his middle school.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

The story goes like this. Starting in June 2004, Sony BMG records began copy-protecting its pop-music CD's. Over the months, the company has used several software schemes for preventing you, the customer, from making illegal copies of its discs. But 20 albums are protected by a scheme devised by a company called First 4 Internet-and […]

A primary school headteacher has been suspended after he forced two boys to free a 10-year-old girl they had trapped in a cupboard.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article