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Single sex or coed? The gender agenda
9.2.10 - As another girls' school opens its doors to boys, debate erupts again over whether the sexes should mix in the classroom. By Denise Ryan.
Too Scared For School
9.2.10 - The city's education system is a linguistic amalgam. There are 14 Kyrgyz-language, 22 Uzbek-language, and nine Russian-language schools. The other 12 are "mixed" schools, including Kyrgyz and Uzbek students, among others. Authorities have invited parents, especially from mixed schools, to join the security teams. ...School fundraising for text books unacceptable: McGuinty
9.2.10 - TORONTO — The chocolate-covered almond industry might soon take a hit in Ontario, after Premier Dalton McGuinty announced he is considering new school fundraising guidelines. ...Schools must earn poor pupil payment, charity tells education secretary Gove
9.2.10 - Disadvantaged children would be expected to be given priority in order for schools to get incentive reward...Farce over schools becoming 'academies' as just 32 out of 2,000 take up the offer
9.2.10 - Education Secretary Michael Gove insisted the trend was 'very encouraging' but is known to be frustrated by union 'aggression' aimed at stopping the reforms in their tracks. ...Online night-owls 'risk mental illness': Sleepless nights blamed for rise in teen depression
9.2.10 - Young people who become sleep deprived by using the internet into the small hours are much more likely to become mentally ill in later life, research shows. ...School meals 'help fussy eaters'
9.2.10 - School lunches can tempt fussy eaters to try new foods, a survey carried out in England for the School Food Trust suggests. ...Teacher to pay $120,000 for affair with special needs student
9.2.10 - Nobody saw them so much as holding hands. But David Withyman, a teenaged student at a special needs school, and his teacher, Anna Blackburn, spent months in a sexual relationship....
Teachers 'fuelling gender gap by stereotyping boys as badly behaved'
9.1.10 - Teachers may be fuelling the gender gap in education by stereotyping boys as badly behaved, research suggests. ...Teachers claim academy 'failure'
9.1.10 - Teachers' unions are branding the government's relaunch of academies in England as a "failure", with only about 30 expected this term. ...Israeli academics, authors join boycott of arts center
9.1.10 - RAMALLAH: Some 150 Israeli academicians signed a petition supporting the boycott cultural performances in West Bank settlements, as did some 53 actors, directors and playwrights. ...
Too tall for school: The 14-year-old Brazilian girl who at 6ft 9in cannot fit on the bus
8.31.10 - One of the biggest teenagers in the world, the pretty youngster is believed to be suffering from a rare disease which has caused her extreme growth. ...
Ban TV to protect children's health, top psychologist tells EU politicians
8.31.10 - Aric Sigman will tell MEPs today that spending hours slumped in front of TVs and computers is 'the greatest unacknowledged health scandal of our time'. ...
'We're letting the pupils take over': Teacher cleared over confrontation with girl, 13, warns of anarchy threat
8.30.10 - A teacher sacked for disciplining a disruptive teenage girl today said schools risked losing control of unruly pupils after he won £63,000 for being unfairly dismissed. ...
Teacher fired for imposing discipline wins employment tribunal
8.29.10 - A schoolgirl simulated a sex act in class – and the teacher who disciplined her was fired. Now he has been vindicated. ...After-school clubs 'too costly'
8.29.10 - Nearly two-thirds of UK parents cannot afford after-school activities for their children, a poll for the Save the Children charity suggests. ...Quebec creating new system to determine English schooling
8.28.10 - Following a Quebec court’s ruling that allows students to enrol in English-language public schools, the province’s parliamentary commission is about to draft a new language law to replace its failed Bill 104 ...Half of all private pupils get As
8.28.10 - Half the A-levels taken by pupils at independent schools in the UK were graded A or A* this year, figures from the sector suggest...A-levels are 'so boring' says top school's head who wants a tougher exam for her students
8.28.10 - Cynthia Hall, head of £29,250-a-year all-girls boarding school Wycombe Abbey, warned that pupils risk being penalised for showing originality and intelligence in their A-levels. ...
When the three Rs meant rations, roller skates...and real education: School day pictures from the 1940s, 50s and 60s
8.27.10 - They are a snapshot of a bygone age and as these charming pictures from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties show, growing up in postwar Britain was an experience that would be unrecognisable to today's children. It was a time when school dinners meant clearing your plate, however unappetising the food; playtime meant rough and tumble games and lessons involved learning to write using a slate and chalk . . 60s ...An Interview with J.B. Schramm: College Summit
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As a retired school superintendent, I applaud your remarks. What I do in retirement in Connecticut is to help citizens establish local audit committees ...
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a former director of information services, university professor and public school administrator, is a disabled Vietnam veteran who lives in Driftwood., TX.
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