School Survival

Lying in his hospital room, on a mattress designed to protect his fragile skin, 13-year-old Achim Nurse poked his bandaged fingers at an orange button on what looked like a souped-up video game console.Half a second later, in a social studies class discussing the Erie Canal, a 5-foot-tall (1.5-meter-tall) steel-blue robot raised its hand."You have […]

People in the UK are bitching and moaning that too many 5 to 11 year olds are skipping classes. They think that if they bitch at kids to attend school earlier in their lives, they'll be more obedient later.====Ministers have ordered a crackdown on truancy and absence in primary schools after figures showed a rise […]

Apparently the stress of dealing with students not following orders is causing teachers to develop illnesses. OK, what about the stress school causes for students? Maybe that's why they don't follow orders? :P ... Here's the article:====Schools urgently need off-site "behaviour" units to deal with unruly pupils, teaching experts have said.The Educational Institute of Scotland […]

Apparently, girls are more likely to work hard and boys more likely to "not be bothered" about schoolwork. Of course, people are now getting all worked up about equality laws and threatening legal action. Here's the article:===Schools may be open to legal action if they do not do more to help boys catch up with […]

Parents must make sure their children are not too tired for school after staying up late to watch television, the head of the watchdog Ofsted said.Chief inspector Maurice Smith said families had a duty to make sure pupils turned up to lessons feeling alert and ready to learn.Children must be "properly nourished" and "not scruffy", […]

California is considering putting more money and effort into the preschooling system - to prepare kids for school... to "raise achievement and lessen crime and delinquency". They can sugar-coat it all they want... here's the rest of the article:Study: Universal preschool will raise achievementProposed program on California's June ballot SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A proposed […]

The U.S. tried to increase the compulsory age of attendance up to 18, but their attempt failed miserably... for now.----By a vote of 309 to 44, the House halted the progress of Senate Bill 268, a bill which would have raised the age of compulsory attendance from 16 to 18.The April 12 vote shunted the […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (AP) -- Missouri students who are home sick, home-schooled or in need of a different approach to education could soon find their teachers on the Internet.State lawmakers voted Tuesday to create a "virtual public school" that would link students to teachers and textbooks by computer starting in 2007. Gov. Matt Blunt supports […]

The U.S. Army and video game producers are increasingly collaborating on war simulation games designed to attract a new generation of potential soldiers.In the last few years, war simulation video games have enjoyed a boom. Marketed primarily to teenage boys and twentysomethings but played by gamers of all ages and sexes, they offer the thrill […]

A couple have been banned from going on nights out for three months to ensure they send their teenage son to school.Neath magistrates heard the parents, who cannot be named, were going to the pub and bingo and having lie-ins rather than sending the boy, 16, to school.The court ordered that the pair must be […]