Archive for the 'Education' Category

SAT Scores Remain At Lowest Level In Nearly A Decade–AP headline; Neanderthals Were Not ‘Stupid,’ According To New Research–Agence France-Presse headline

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

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The stories are here and there.

Imafes: (test) madrasi.info; (Neanderthal) AFP/file

“When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started.”–Superintendent, Harrold , Tx. school district, to the Fort Worth Star Telegram.

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Is he saying that all of those nuns were carrying heat in the 1950s?

ocal6.com
EDUCATION
School District Allowing Teachers To Carry Guns
Employees Must Have License To Carry Concealed Handgun
POSTED: 7:55 am EDT August 16, 2008
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HARROLD, Texas — The tiny Harrold, Texas, school district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms when they return to […]

ABC News says the mayor of Gloucester, Mass denies the existence of a pregnancy pact by 17 high school girls.

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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Images: (Title) via shillpages.com; (Top two) Village of the Damned via reelstreets.com (third) eindiders.com (Fourth) Village of the Damned via koreanfilm.org

If this is true, my hope for the future may be unjustified.

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Mom says teacher let classmates vote autistic son out of class
By Colleen Wixon | Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers
2:31 PM EDT, May 25, 2008
PORT ST. LUCIE - Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
After each classmate was allowed to say what […]

As we fall further behind other modern industrialized nations in science, we can rest in the belief that come Rapture–WE’ll BE NUMBER ONE!!!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Many High School Biology Teachers Still Teach Creationism
By Brandon Keim Email
May 19, 2008 | 7:00:00 PM

One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology.
Of more than 900 teachers who responded to a poll conducted by Penn State University […]

Elected officials: America’s Nobility!

Monday, April 28th, 2008

West Virginia University dean resigns in degree scandal
By VICKI SMITH, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The dean of West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics is resigning in the wake of the scandal over a master’s degree awarded to the governor’s daughter, the school announced Monday.
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R. Stephen Sears is […]

I am happy that I did not show outrage in my comments which mirrored Vincenzo Kolchak’s certainty that the artist was only foolin.’

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Shvarts, Yale clash over project
By Zachary Abrahamson, Thomas Kaplan and Martine Powers
Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught — at least according to the University.
“The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity […]

For Senior, Abortion a Medium for Art, Political Discourse–Yale Daily News headline

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Titian had started this way…

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Martine Powers
Yale Daily News
Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, April 17, 2008
Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce […]

Rich and Poor and Rich and Poor and Rich and Poor

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The Times
March 31, 2008
US credit crunch hits education as banks abandon student loans
Suzy Jagger in New York
One of America’s leading banking associations has given warning that the United States faces a growing educational apartheid as some lenders withdraw from student loans amid new evidence that the credit crisis has spread across all types of borrowing.
In […]

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY! WAR IS PEACE! IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH! AMERICAN IDOL IS REAL!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Friday, Mar. 14, 2008
Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
By Massimo Calabresi/Washington
Pity America’s poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board […]