School Survival

After a Wal-Mart employee turned in a high school student's anti-Bush poster to the police, the Secret Service came calling.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

The Education Department engaged in illegal "covert propaganda" when it paid columnist Armstrong Williams to promote Bush administration policies and when it produced a video that seemed to be a news story. The investigation was requested after it was revealed late last year that the department had hired Williams, a syndicated conservative columnist and TV […]

Schools should cut the long summer holiday to create a better-educated workforce, says the mayor of one of the biggest cities in the United States. "If you're going to compete with India and China, they're going to school six days a week and they don't take the summer off," said the mayor. "Still having two […]

A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books and is relying solely on laptops and digital material to teach its pupils.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A south Wales school is giving trials to a fingerprint registration for pupils which could alert parents to absent children in seconds. Children place their finger on a scanner, which reads their print and records their attendance on a computer. It is hoped the system, which would replace the traditional reading of the register, could […]

A survey of 500 primary and secondary teachers for the Teachers' TV channel found 80% blamed discipline problems at school on a lack of parental control. Almost three quarters of those asked said they would support a tough "zero tolerance" approach to bad behaviour.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

This is really a breath of fresh air, apparently crime has been eliminated there and the cops have nothing better to do then enforce a school rule against bringing certain toys to school. Must be the safest place in America. However I do have to question the quality of education in a school that can't […]

When the Bush administration fires off a new round of speechifying about "the war on terror," the U.S. press rarely goes beyond the surface meanings of rhetoric provided by White House scriptwriters. But the president's big speech at the National Endowment for Democracy on Oct. 6 could have been annotated along these lines:Posted by: SoulRiserSource […]

I reorganized the articles section and the opinionz section so that they are now merged. Having articles as well as opinions, both containing things about school and other things, well, it was confusing. Even for me :P Now there's 2 sections under Articles/Opinions: Stuff About School, and Other Stuff. I think that makes a lot […]

A WOMAN who was sued by the Recording Industry of America for file-sharing has countersued the outfit for hacking. Tanya Andersen, a 41-year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, […]