Sparking a Helping Hand

Today I read a simply wonderful and inspiring piece from the Jerusalem Post. It was titled "Sparking a Helping Hand". It went on to describe the wonderful life of Prof. Boris Rubinsky in his quest to invent new...

Teen pregnancies on the rise for the first time in over a decade

"SOME blame demography, others the recession. It might have something to with gender roles, or the steady stream of mixed messages about being a teenage mum. Perhaps sexually transmitted infections are not the deterrent they once were."There is much debate about why teenage...

Timeline - UK education

News 2009 : To save on Public Expenditure the UK Gov now accepts that Schools should regulate themselves!. Opinion: At every New UK Pre-Political Election the theme remains the same – Changes to Education, changes to Health, changes to the Law/Justice System; about the...

President Obama and Teachers' Union spar

Politico news blog says Obama "heavily mirrors"  W Bush A debate is brewing between the President and the powerful Teachers' Union  "A skirmish between powerful teachers’ unions and...

UK Identity as to its own Educational System undermined

News 15 10 2009: School exams data to be published Ministers under the “National Challenge initiative”, announced last year, demand that at least 30% of pupils at every school get five A*-C grades, including English and maths, by 2011. The Department for Children,...

Irish schools to tackle homophobia

"Irish secondary schools have been given a guide to help them support their lesbian, gay and bisexual students after research showed that four out of five teachers witnessed verbal homophobic abuse but did not know how to handle it. "Homophobia is still a huge problem in...

UK quality of life poor, study says

"People in the UK have a worse quality of life than many of their European counterparts despite earning more money, according to a study published today."This finding doesn't surprise me at all. One has to spend just a little time in another European country to see that the...

Top 10 Reasons NOT to get Pregnant- Pay Attention Teens!

1. Financial- Babies are expensive. Toddlers are expensive. Teenagers are expensive. College graduates are expensive. And that’s only half the lifetime of your child. 2. Situation- If your situation consists of you being a single parent, too young or living with a relative,...

Another one going down : Where is the bottom of it?

Propaganda machine of the right,  against all evidence,  claim Jennings covered up rape.  "Does Obama have a vetting problem?"  asks the right?  (Anne Coulter is starting with the Roman...

Female university students are "perks of the job"

"University women's groups in Britain are up in arms after a leading academic referred to female students as "perks of the job." In a Times article titled ‘The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy’, Vice-Chancellor Kealey of Buckingham University claims, “Most male...

British Scholar Encourages Colleagues To Enjoy Female Students

University of Buckingham vice-chancellor Terence Kealey is encouraging his male colleagues to enjoy the curves of their female students - but to look, not touch. Kealey wrote an article on lust in the Times Higher...

Trisha Yearwood, Campbell, and the GRAMMY Foundation come togethe

Trisha Yearwood, Crosby Loggins and the Grammy Foundation announced the partnership between Campbell Soup Company and the GRAMMY Foundation. Together they plan to make music education more accessible in tens of...

US School District Electrifies Education With Free Laptops

TUCSON -- Sunnyside sophomore Jennifer Galindo knows all about barriers. Two years ago, her family moved from Mexico to Tucson, where she didn’t know anyone and barely spoke English. “It was really...

Three Indians attacked by 70 locals in Australia

The so called messiah of Globalization, 'the Australian's behavior towards the immigrants is really strange. Several thousands of students reach Australia for there higher studies, but in recent past the so called Australians, all of them have just 200 year history in...

Is Brainetics a Scam?

Brainetics is a program that is "meant to inspire students to learn [...] concepts about mathematics and grammar." But does it truly work is are the rumors about the Brainetics scam true? The program itself has been exclaimed as a savior of basic math and spelling to children...

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