School Survival

China said remarks made by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticizing China’s censorship of the Internet were unjustified and damaged bilateral ties. In a speech in Washington yesterday, Clinton called on U.S. technology companies to resist censorship of the Internet and said perpetrators of cyber attacks such as those who targeted Google Inc. must […]

A businessman is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know - even if the child's parents are on the same flight. Mirko Fischer has accused the airline of branding all men as potential sex offenders and says innocent travellers are being publicly humiliated. In […]

ZERO TOLERANCE DISCIPLINE, DISCRIMINATION, AND THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE The School to Prison Pipeline (STPP) is a nationwide system of local, state, and federal education and public safety policies that pushes students out of school  and into the criminal justice system. The system disproportionately targets youth of color and youth with disabilities. Inequities in […]

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the king-sized failures of the justice system are no exception. A Harris County District had a major justice FAIL recently when he prosecuted a 13-year-old girl for prostitution, despite the fact that she's legally a human trafficking victim and not old enough to consent to sex. And […]

New to Facebook, Brandon Neely was searching the site for acquaintances in 2008 when he typed in the names of some of the detainees he had guarded during his tenure as a prison guard at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Neely, an Army veteran who spent six months at the prison in 2002, sent messages to […]

Children's operations are being delayed and cancelled as surgeons face criminal records checks every time they work in a different part of the country, it has been warned. Specialist surgeons working with children face delays in being cleared to start work when covering for colleagues on sick leave at other hospitals. The repeated checks can […]

This is a collection of links to articles written by Shaun Kerry, M.D. (Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology), and other people. These lists were found on world-prosperity.org. Our government spends more than 550 billion dollars per year on education, yet home schooled children - who have markedly fewer financial resources - continue to […]

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 […]

In a groundbreaking study released earlier this month by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an unconscionable 12.1 percent of youths confined in juvenile detention facilities reported being sexually abused at their current facility in the past year. As shocking as this statistic is, Texas children in custody fared even worse. Of the 13 Texas facilities […]

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 […]