by Peter Gray, Ph.D. The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling? Children are more anxious and depressed than ever before. Why? Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty […]
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Rise of Anxiety and Depression Linked to Rise in Schooling
Tories promise to make teaching 'brazenly elitist'
The Conservatives are promising to make teaching "brazenly elitist" by improving the quality of graduates entering the profession in England. Leader David Cameron said there would be no financial help with training for those who failed to get at least a second-class university degree. But those with the highest grades in maths and science could […]
Schooling: The hidden agenda (a speech by Daniel Quinn)
New article added to the articles section: Schooling: The hidden agenda. It's a speech Daniel Quinn (author of Ishmael) gave at a home-schooling/unschooling conference. For those of you with short attention spans, here are some snippets I found interesting. I've even bolded some parts so if you have very SEVERE attention span issues, you can […]
Ball and chain to force children to study
Parents struggling to get their kids to revise in the run-up to exams can now keep them at their desk using a ball and chain that only unlocks when they have studied for long enough. Concerned mums and dads set the desired study time on the Study Ball and attach it to their child's ankle. […]
The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Added new article by John Taylor Gatto, called "The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?" Click here to read it. I personally think it's one of the best articles I've ever read about public schooling.
Alhambra HS Locked Down After Student w/a Weapon is Arrested
A junior at Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra was arrested today, and two handguns and drug paraphernalia were seized, thanks in part to a dog trained to sniff out trouble. A private security firm was doing a sweep of the nearly 2,500-student campus in the 500 block of East Hellman Avenue, when a dog […]
Teacher fired for reporting child abuse, sues school
A former assistant principal at Goodlow School says he was fired for reporting suspected child abuse. Kenneth Taylor says that while he was assistant principal of the school, a coordinator/teacher in the Reading First program told him that she observed a special education teacher "kick the legs out from under a second grade student who […]
Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches
In the past three years, the government has provided the nation's schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn't meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found. The U.S. Department […]
Early bedtimes may lower the risk of depression for teenagers
Teenagers with earlier bedtimes are less likely to have depression or think about suicide, a new study reports. This adds to a growing body of research linking a lack of sleep to a higher risk of depression and other health problems in young people. What do we know already? Sleep is vital to our bodies, […]
New high school in Northwest lets you graduate faster
As soon as classes end in early June, workers will begin transforming Roanoke Elementary School into a high school. By the time school begins in August, the campus will reopen as James M. Steele Accelerated High School, designed for Northwest district students who want to earn high school credits faster. This week, students from Northwest […]
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