Education Group at NewsCloud.com http://www.newscloud.com/groups/Education Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:40:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us Juvenile Asylum http://www.newscloud.com/read/Juvenile_Asylum Confronting racial profiling in schools. Metal detectors and security officers have become fixtures in public schools across the nation. At many of these schools, where students are predominately Black and Brown, "security" has become a code word for "racial profiling." One group of New York City high school students decided to take their schools security policies to task.

]]> Virtual Success for your Teenager http://www.newscloud.com/read/Virtual_Success_for_your_Teenager Trying to figure out how to teach your teen about capitalism? Believe it or not, the answer might be a video game.

]]> Denied kindergarten for being Native? http://www.newscloud.com/read/Denied_kindergarten_for_being_Native Five year old Adriel Arocha is being blocked from attending school in a Houston-area school district. The reason? As an Apache, he has long hair that he has been growing in his Native cultural tradition that "violates" this school's dress code rules. The parents of a kindergartener in Fort Bend County are fighting for his right to have long hair in school. They say it's about freedom of religion. The Needville Independent School District says it needs proof. When Adriel Arocha, 5, was born, his father, Kenney, vowed to teach him his heritage. "We feel that it's important to raise him as Native American until he's able to make a choice," said Kenny...

]]> The Age Blogs: Management Line: Blame it on MBAs and business schools http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_Age_Blogs_Management_Line_Blame_it_on_MBAs_and_business_schools The MBA course and business schools have created the world's financial crisis

]]> 1 in 4 California high school students dropped out in 2006-07, state says - Los Angeles Times http://www.newscloud.com/read/1_in_4_California_high_school_students_dropped_out_in_200607_state_says_Los_Angeles_Times The state, using a new system for tracking dropouts, discloses a rate considerably higher than previously reported. About 1 in 3 students in Los Angeles Unified left school.

]]> Bizarre DNA of Platypus tells a story about us http://www.newscloud.com/read/Bizarre_DNA_of_Platypus_tells_a_story_about_us There are genes for egg laying, evidence of the animal\\\\\\'s reptilian roots. Genes for making milk, which the platypus does in mammalian style despite not having nipples. Genes for making snake venom, which the animal stores in its legs. And there are five times more sex-determining chromosomes than scientists know what to do with.

]]> Her Dream, Branded as a Threat http://www.newscloud.com/read/Her_Dream_Branded_as_a_Threat Debbie Almontaser dreamed of starting a public school like no other in New York City. Children of Arab descent would join students of other ethnicities, learning Arabic together. By graduation, they would be fluent in the language and groomed for the country's elite colleges. They would be ready, in Ms. Almontaser's words, to become "ambassadors of peace and hope." Things have not gone according to plan.

]]> One Million High School Dropouts in U.S. Each Year http://www.newscloud.com/read/One_Million_High_School_Dropouts_in_US_Each_Year "When more than one million students a year drop out of high school, it's more than a problem, it's a catastrophe," retired General Colin Powell, founder of America's Promise Alliance. "It's time for a national 'call to arms,' because we cannot afford to let nearly one-third of our kids fail." His statement of urgency came during a press conference announcing the release of a study that details why nearly one in three U.S. high school students drops out before graduating and how his group plans to reverse the downward spiral of retention.

]]> Obama: Parents Should Help Students http://www.newscloud.com/read/Obama_Parents_Should_Help_Students The standard Barack Obama venue lately has been high schools. Truman High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Jefferson High School. The Democratic presidential candidate has been pitching an audience-pleasing message of economic populism to crowds of a few thousand packed into each gymnasium. But he gets some of his loudest applause when he segues to education - and a bit of a lecture to mothers and fathers on how to be parents.

]]> A Subprime Schooling http://www.newscloud.com/read/A_Subprime_Schooling Add another group to those feeling the impact of the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown: students and educators. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 28% of funding for America's public schools comes from local property tax. Property tax revenues, which in many areas of the country had grown along with property values, are poised to remain flat or even shrink in coming years.

]]> Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Comparison Suggests http://www.newscloud.com/read/Upright_Walking_Began_6_Million_Years_Ago_Thigh_Bone_Comparison_Suggests A shape comparison of the most complete fossil femur (thigh bone) of one of the earliest known pre-humans, or hominins, with the femora of living apes, modern humans and other fossils, indicates the earliest form of bipedalism occurred at least six million years ago and persisted for at least four million years. William Jungers, Ph.D., of Stony Brook University, and Brian Richmond, Ph.D., of George Washington University, say their finding indicates that the fossil belongs to very early human ancestors, and that upright walking is one of the first human characteristics to appear in our lineage, right after the split between human and chimpanzee lineages. Their findings are published in the March 21 issue of the journal Science.

]]> The Year in Hate http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_Year_in_Hate The latest annual count of hate groups operating in the United States rose to 888 last year, capping a 48 percent increase since 2000.


(THESE are the terrorists Americans should be worrying about.)

]]> Legislature OKs bill to put state-grown food in schools http://www.newscloud.com/read/Legislature_OKs_bill_to_put_stategrown_food_in_schools Senate Bill 6483 relaxes food-purchasing regulations to allow schools and state-run institutions to buy fresh produce and meats from Washington farmers -- even if locally grown products cost a little more than their processed or canned counterparts.

]]> IRIN humanitarian news: Less silence, more science could make anal sex safer http://www.newscloud.com/read/IRIN_humanitarian_news_Less_silence_more_science_could_make_anal_sex_safer Education http://www.newscloud.com/read/Education