Category Archives: School

Teaching kids social skills pays off in grades

By doris | Published: February 7, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com A comprehensive analysis of 33 studies finds that teaching kids social and emotional skills leads to an average 11 percentile-point gain in their academic performance over six months compared to students who didn’t receive the same instruction. That’s a big jump, equivalent to a student at the middle of a class’s [...]

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Fla. School Board Shooting: Purse Used to Smack Gunman Clay Duke Sold for $13,100 on eBay, Says Report

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at CBSNews.com PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (CBS/AP) The purse a woman used to hit a gunman at a Florida Panhandle school board meeting was sold for charity on eBay for $13,100, according to a report. PICTURES: Fla. School Board Shooting The purse’s owner, board member Ginger Littleton, tried to use the purse to [...]

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All hostages freed from Wis. classroom

By doris | Published: November 30, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MARINETTE, Wis. — A student armed with a handgun held nearly two dozen students and a teacher hostage in a Wisconsin high school for about five hours before shooting himself when police broke into the classroom, authorities said Monday. No other injuries were reported. Officers who were outside the Marinette High [...]

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KFC offers $20,000 college scholarship for best tweet

By doris | Published: November 18, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Restaurant chain KFC has launched a scholarship campaign that aims to keep it short and “tweet.” The chain is running a scholarship contest using microblogging site Twitter to reach out to a younger generation. Applicants use 140 characters or less to explain why they deserve the $20,000 scholarship. High [...]

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Calif. court upholds in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

By doris | Published: November 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com It is not right to give something to some one that is not in this country legal. Let them go back and do it the right way. No one gives us a break. SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court weighed in Monday on the politically charged immigration fray when it [...]

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Detroit prosecutor proposes sending parents who skip school conferences to jail

By doris | Published: October 27, 2010

Full Story at Moms.today.com Listen up, Detroit parents: If Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy gets her way, you may be serving time in the slammer if you skip your child’s parent-teacher conference. According to this story in today’s Detroit News, Worthy is making the bold proposal to help call attention to the link between parental [...]

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In a wired world, children unable to escape cyberbullying

By doris | Published: October 5, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Jason, 13, knows he is an easy target for bullies at his middle school in Long Island, New York. His diminutive stature hinders him from retaliating against the taller, heavier boys who tease him. He prefers to wear skinny jeans and black zip-up hoodies, fashion choices that induce comments [...]

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Calls for longer school years face budget reality

By doris | Published: September 28, 2010

Full Story at news.yahoo.com NEW YORK – President Barack Obama’s call for a longer school day and year for America’s kids echoes a similar call he made a year ago to little effect, illustrating just how deeply entrenched the traditional school calendar is and how little power the federal government has to change it. Education [...]

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Whooping Cough Makes Whopping Comeback

By doris | Published: August 29, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Whooping cough sounds fantastically antiquated, up there with scurvy and St. Vitus Dance – diseases you didn’t think anyone in America got anymore. But whooping cough, named for the high-pitched “whoop” a person makes when inhaling, has made a comeback, with an incidence rate up by a whopping 2,300 percent since [...]

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Massachusetts school district under fire over condom policy

By doris | Published: June 25, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com CNN) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick urged a school district to revise its policy allowing students as young as in elementary schools to get condoms if they are believed to be sexually active. “It is simply not age appropriate to have a program in place for such young children, not to mention [...]

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At Age 95, Woman Finally Gets High School Diploma

By doris | Published: May 26, 2010

Full Story at happynews.com There was a bit more pomp and considerably more circumstance than usual at the Falkville High School graduation ceremonies Monday night. Marching alongside the fresh-faced Alabama seniors ready to make their way in the world was 95-year-old Earlene Harvey-Morris, whose own dreams of a diploma were snatched away from her 77 [...]

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Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns

By doris | Published: May 17, 2010

Full Story at Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state’s schools to “throwing them in to the enemy’s flames”. Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her [...]

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Croatian girl wakes up from a coma speaking fluent German

By doris | Published: April 25, 2010

Full Story at nydailynews.com Although a Croatian teen had only just started studying German at school, the 13-year-old has been able to communicate fluently in German since waking up from a 24-hour coma, The Telegraph reports.

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Districts warn of deeper teacher cuts

By doris | Published: April 21, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com School districts around the country, forced to resort to drastic money-saving measures, are warning hundreds of thousands of teachers that their jobs may be eliminated in June. The districts have no choice, they say, because their usual sources of revenue — state money and local property taxes — have been hit [...]

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E. Coli Kills 1, Sickens 3 at Day Care

By doris | Published: April 11, 2010

Full Story at CBS News (AP) A deadly strain of E. coli spread from child to child at a Washington state day care, killing one and sickening three others despite what health officials determined were appropriate hygienic practices. The four children were hospitalized, and Elizabeth Winter of the Washington state Department of Early Learning said [...]

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College on edge after recent wave of student suicides

By doris | Published: March 21, 2010

I know it is hard going to college. The kids are pushed in to growing up to fast to deal with the problems of college. Most of the have to deal with finical part of college. As a parent most of the time all we can do is keep in contact with them and support [...]

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School cuts a painful no-win lesson for all

By doris | Published: March 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Kansas City, Mo., plans to close nearly half its public schools by fall. Illinois’ governor wants to raise state income taxes by 1 percent to continue funding schools and prevent the layoffs of thousands of teachers. Hawaii, President Barack Obama’s home state, has whacked 17 days from the school year and [...]

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Suspect kills self in Ohio State shooting, police say

By doris | Published: March 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A man apparently angry over a poor performance evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building early Tuesday and opened fire, killing a manager before turning the gun on himself, police said. Larry Wallington, 48, a building services manager at the OSU Maintenance Building, was pronounced dead at the [...]

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Teacher describes how he stopped shooting

By doris | Published: February 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Denver, Colorado (CNN) — During emergency drills at Deer Creek Middle School, teacher David Benke used to tell his students that if anything ever happened, he wanted to be able to “do something about it.” When he saw a man shooting at students as they were leaving the Littleton, Colorado, school [...]

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Pa. School Official Defended in Webcam Spy Case

By doris | Published: February 21, 2010

Full Story at ABC News.go.com A suburban Philadelphia school district accused of secretly switching on laptop computer webcams inside students’ homes says it never used webcam images to monitor or discipline students and believes one of its administrators has been “unfairly portrayed and unjustly attacked.” The Lower Merion School District, in response to a suit [...]

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