Daily Yomiuri HT:Â Textually
“Cell phones are suitable for language learning because they allow people to study for as little as five or 10 minutes,” Yang said. “The phone system will probably be used for homework or tests.”
The learning system also allows teachers to check the progress of their students. It is being promoted by WEIC [...]
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A Tennessee legislator is trying to pass a bill requiring state testing of home school and private school students. The first hearing was yesterday and home school mom Kay Brooks has all the info on her blog.
AP Ipsos Canada
The time that is spent by teens online is actually rather limited, with 12 to 17 year olds spending, on average, only 13 hours per week on the Internet (compared to a weekly average of 19 hours for online adults), and that number has not increased since Ipsos last measured online teen behaviour [...]
Student suspended for “gang related” crucifix
Published by February 26th, 2008 in Education. 3 CommentsKOMOTV
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) - A pair of Albany teenagers suspended for “gang-related behavior” because they were wearing crucifixes say they were only wearing gifts from their mothers.
Jaime Salazar, 14, his friend Marco Castro, 16, were suspended from South Albany High School recently after they refused to put away the crucifixes they were wearing around their [...]
AP
Welcome to Oaksterdam University, a new trade school where higher education takes on a whole new meaning.
The school prepares people for jobs in California’s thriving medical marijuana industry. For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn how to cultivate and cook with cannabis, study which strains of pot are best for certain [...]
AP
GREENSBORO, Ga. - Nearly four decades after this rural Georgia county stopped segregating its schools by race, it wants to divide students again - this time by sex.
Greene County is set to become the first school district in the nation to go entirely single-sex, with boys and girls in separate classrooms - a move [...]
Chattanooga Times-Free Press
School nutritionist Bonnie Safley said there’s an epidemic of parents who neglect to pay for school lunches.
These are not parents who have their children signed up for the free lunch program; they’re simply bouncing checks or neglecting to send cash, she said. And, when parents don’t pay, schools usually foot the bill.
“It is [...]
Ok, I could make all sorts of comments about too much time on his hands but hey, this is a free country and this blogger has a gripe. HT: Neatorama
Public school enrollment declining? Have lots of parents who are “languishing on childcare wait lists? In Canada they are considering accepting 3 and 4 year olds, reports the Oak Bay News. But the education minister, Shirley Bond, doesn’t want to call it “kindergarten.â€
The ministry plans to create an early learning childhood agency to look into [...]
New York Times Machine HT: J-Walk
TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.
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