Miss. school drops race-based rules for student elections
08/31/10 - Living Education - Harry - 2 Comments
Tags: discrimination, Mississippi, race, student elections, student council
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Following an uproar over a policy it said was designed 30 years ago to achieve racial equality, a school district board in a Mississippi town on Friday scrapped a system of student elections where race determined whether a candidate could run for some class positions, including president.
High School Yearbook Includes Quote From Hitler
08/29/10 - Living Education - Xiphias - 28 Comments
Tags: high school, Hitler, Pennsylvania, Quote, yearbook
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Students from Easton Area High School are talking about more than just Monday's first day of class; they're talking about a quote by Adolf Hitler from the 2010 yearbook.
"It is in fact a quote from Hitler and it was selected from numerous quotes and various sources," Easton Area High School Principal Michael Koch said.
Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review
08/26/10 - Living Education - Busby Berkeley - 6 Comments
Tags: Internet, Wikipedia, academic journals, peer review, The Decline of Western Civilization
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For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century.
Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to scholarly journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe. They argue that in an era of digital media there is a better way to assess the quality of work.
Given Money, Schools Wait on Rehiring Teachers
08/26/10 - Living Education - vissarion - 0 Comments
Tags: Teachers, layoffs, economic stimulus, budget shortfalls, double-edged sword
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As schools handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets. But now that the federal government has come through with $10 billion, some of the nation’s biggest school districts are balking at using their share of the money to hire teachers right away.
Parents suspect Wi-Fi making kids sick, demand schools ban it
08/16/10 - Living Education - vissarion - 37 Comments
Tags: ontario, Wi-Fi, radiation, microwave infections, concerned parents
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A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children's schools turn off wireless internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick.
Some parents in the Barrie, Ont., area say their children are showing a host of symptoms, ranging from headaches to dizziness and nausea and even racing heart rates.
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