School Survival

PARENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK - Carl Chew, a 6th grade science teacher at Nathan Eckstein Middle School in the Seattle School District, last week defied federal, state, and district regulations that require teachers to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning to students."I have let my administration know that I will no longer give the WASL […]

PHOENIX - Arizona schools whose courses "denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization" could lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a state House panel.SB 1108 also would bar teaching practices that "overtly encourage dissent" from those values, including democracy, capitalism, pluralism and religious toleration. Schools would have to […]

On Feb. 28, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District found in the case of In re: Rachel L. that a homeschooling family involved in a juvenile court proceeding did not have a right to homeschool in California unless the children's teacher held a California teaching credential. That decision sent shock waves […]

Spanish family court judges believe parents are divorcing to increase their children's chances of getting into their preferred state school.Spain is certainly not the only country where the government-funded school system is regularly under the spotlight over concerns about the quality of the education and the need to improve standards. Finding a good state school […]

It's not specifically about school though. It's basically my collection of pages and text files I saved over the years. Gives me a nice excuse to go through them all and sort out what's interesting... and the interesting stuff finds its way onto the site. I haven't added everything yet (still about 10 million folders […]

The rampage carried out nearly a year ago by a deranged Virginia Tech student who slipped through the mental health system has changed how American colleges reach out to troubled students.Administrators are pushing students harder to get help, looking more aggressively for signs of trouble and urging faculty to speakup when they have concerns. Counselors […]

CCTV cameras could be used in examination halls to catch cheats and prevent unfounded complaints against invigilators.The Examination Officers' Association is planning to test the idea in a handful of exam centres.It says exam cheats are using increasingly hi-tech methods and that invigilators themselves fear a rising number of complaints from students.Some schools and colleges […]

Six days after she was sucker punched and beaten in her own Baltimore classroom, high school art teacher Jolita Berry still finds it almost impossible to watch the MySpace video of the attack. And she can't make herself go back to work."I am petrified to go back to that particular building," Berry told TODAY's Matt […]

MONROE (TV8) - Remember your parents saying there's nothing out late at night but trouble?Well, Ouachita deputies agree with your parents.They say that youth crimes often happen late at night when they should be at home.As KNOE 8 News Reporter Dustin Barnes tells us, deputies say an enforced curfew would deter those petty acts.Now that […]

A daycare in a North York elementary school was under lockdown this morning after a bizarre incident in which a man was found dangling from a tree and impaled by a metal stake.A parent dropping off a child at Roywood Public School - in the York Mills Rd. and Victoria Park Ave. area - called […]