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Runner carries injured foe half mile to help in middle of rac

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

yahoo.com - By Jonathan Wall - Sep. 22 (News Report) - Josh Ripley didn't have to stop. Running in a recent cross country meet for Andover (Minn.) High, the junior varsity runner was making his way through the trail at the Applejack Invite when he heard a loud scream during the first mile of a two-mile race.

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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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Do School Lunches Plump Up Poor Kids? | Miller-McCune Online

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - A program to ensure all American children get at least one good meal a day may lie behind their expanding waistlines. Oddly, a breakfast program does not.

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Evangelicals' Stealth Mission to Sneak Jesus into Our Public Schools

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Rob Boston - Aug. 13 (Investigative Report) - United Methodist minister David Jenkins was meeting with fellow clergy last year in the small Kansas community of Sharon Springs when one of the pastors made what sounded like a routine request. The clergyman noted that the Todd Becker Foundation was coming to town, and the evangelical Christian organization, which purports to warn youngsters about the dangers of drunk driving, wanted to line up local religious leaders to help with its presentation. What struck Jenkins as odd was the venue: It was to take place at Wallace County High School. Furthermore, the Becker Foundation had a very specific set of duties in mind for the ministers. They would swing into action after students had been offered a chance to become “born again.” “Our task was to go forward when students came down to make their decision, and we would give them a Bible and some Christian material and talk with them about Christ,” Jenkins said.

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An education bubble? Data from the explosion of AP tests

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Culture11 - By Razib - May. 05 (Special Report) - One datum that suggests an irrational bubble in education is that a much larger fraction of the population is going to college now, and that not surprisingly the average IQ of college students has declined by about 2/3 s.d. -- admissions boards began to scrape deeper down into the sludgebucket of society.

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School's Out Forever

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Vice Magazine - By James Griffioen - Mar. 21 (Special Report) - In the last half-century, Detroit lost more than half its population. Those leaving the city were mostly white people who fled to the suburbs. As a result, the tax base was destroyed and the black population that remains has had to govern a 139-square-mile city with limited resources. With an aging infrastructure built for twice the existing population, the school district has to shut down and vacate school buildings every year. In 2007, the school board awarded a contract for securing, cleaning and removing supplies from closed schools to a Philadelphia-based company with ties to school board members. However, the work at many closed schools was simply never done. As with any buildings left unsecured in Detroit, thieves looking for metal immediately broke in to steal copper pipes and other valuables. These “scrappers” are like locusts. In 2008, I went into several schools closed the previous year to find buildings stripped of metal but left with libraries full of books, computer labs upturned, art classrooms full of supplies, and administration offices filled with confidential and sensitive student records.

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More Low-Income Students Taking AP Classes

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Education Week - By Catherine Gewertz - Feb. 04 (Special Report) - More students from low-income families are taking and passing Advanced Placement tests, but non-Asian minority students—particularly African-Americans—are still underrepresented among those taking and passing the tests of college-level material, according to results released today.

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Good Money After ... Mediocre?

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Inside Higher Ed - By Doug Lederman - Jan. 29 (News Report) - The disconnect could not have been more glaring. As the House of Representatives passed an economic stimulus package on Wednesday that would pour tens of billions of dollars into higher education, through spending on research, school and college infrastructure, and aid to states to ward off cuts in education budgets, leading policy makers gathered just a few blocks away to discuss K-12 and higher education policy in the Obama administration. And while the conversation did not in most cases focus on the stimulus package, the gist of the discussions — that state and federal decision makers have largely missed the mark in much of their recent policy making about higher education — left the unmistakable impression that the economic package, while perhaps necessary from a purely economic standpoint, would not necessarily be the best use of federal education dollars.

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Studies Cite Depression Factors Among Filipino Americans

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Pasckie Pascua - Nov. 14 (News Report) - A survey of more than 6,000 South Los Angeles high school students conducted by Loyola Marymount last spring revealed that many are “frightened by violence in school, deeply dissatisfied with their choices of college preparatory classes, and exhibit symptoms of clinical depression.”

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Off Base on Sex Ed

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - Sep. 11 (News Analysis) - A McCain-Palin campaign ad claims Obama's "one accomplishment" in the area of education was "legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergarteners." But the claim is simply false, and it dates back to Alan Keyes' failed race against Obama for an open Senate seat in 2004. Obama, contrary to the ad's insinuation, does not support explicit sex education for kindergarteners. And the bill, which would have allowed only "age appropriate" material and a no-questions-asked opt-out policy for parents, was not his accomplishment to claim in any case, since he was not even a cosponsor - and the bill never left the state Senate.

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Controversy Erupts Over Errors, Bias in Textbook

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Skeptical Inquirer - By Henry Huber - May. 06 (News Analysis) - But was it corrected? An electronic copy was purchased and downloaded April 8, and a side-by-side analysis of sixteen examples from both editions shows the offending text wholly unaltered in eleven instances (which includes repeating a falsely depicted 6-3 court ruling as a contentious 5-4 decision), and altered to correct only a spelling error in a twelfth (it read, "global warning"). It appears that all the most recent edition corrects is a typo that was arguably more accurate than the lesson.

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Faith, Hope, and Chastity

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Texas Monthly - By Katy Vine - May. 05 (Special Report) - Texas ranks number one in teenage births, which, all told, cost taxpayers at least $1 billion a year. (Twenty-four percent of those births are not the girl's first delivery.) While the number of teenage births in Texas is actually going down of late, it is decreasing at a slower rate than the nation's at large. And 52.5 percent of Texas teens are having sex, compared with the national average of 47 percent. Rates of HIV/AIDS infection among teens are currently on the rise. Texas ranks fifth in teenage pregnancy (a number even more disconcerting in light of the fact that the U.S. ranks near the top in this category among developed nations).

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Florida Passes Anti-Bully Law

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

365Gay.com - May. 01 (News Report) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) is expected to sign legislation that would require school districts to prohibit bullying and harassment. The Senate passed the bill unanimously on Wednesday. It already had passed the House. Crist has said he would likely sign the bill. ''I'm against bullying, too,'' he said. The legislation mandates that school districts throughout the state must put in place specific policies to deal with bullying that includes methods of investigating and punishments. It also bans cyber bullying. The districts would have to comply by December 1 or risk losing state funds.

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Green Schools Program Also Greens Students' Homes

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:39:11 -0700

GreenBiz.com - By GreenBiz.com (unattributed) - Apr. 04 (News Report) - As part of a program to increase energy-efficiency in schools, almost thirty schools in Southern California are helping students trade conventional lightbulbs for compact fluorescents.

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Controversial Assignment Leads To Teacher's Resignation

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:47:48 -0800

WRAL Raleigh-Durham - Nov. 17 (News Report) - A Spanish teacher at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School resigned this week after handing out an assignment that some students and parents said teaches hate.

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