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• Girl Arrested for Text Messaging in Class

  A 14-year-old girl in a Wisconsin high school paid the price for ignoring her teacher with a court date and $298 in bail. The student was reportedly text messaging throughout math class, despite her teacher’s requests to stop texting and to hand over her cellphone. Read More... Posted Feb 18 2009, 03:00 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: school, Wisconsin, arrest, class, disorderly conduct, text messaging, student, cellphones

• Should Students Attend Parent-Teacher Meetings?

  In an effort to boost participation in parent-teacher meetings, many schools have started including an unlikely facilitator in the talks: the student. Read More... Posted Dec 29 2008, 01:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: school, parents, child, teachers, privacy, principal, kid, challenges, student, should children attend parent teacher meetings, parent teacher meetings, attendance, academic success, low-income, conferences, immigrant families

• Teacher Beats Student to Death for Late Homework

  There are few things I am certain about. Okay, there is nothing I am certain about...except this. My kids will never, ever attend public school in Egypt. Was this ever a consideration? Probably not, but after hearing this bit of news I am sure it will never happen. What news, you ask? The news an Egyptian teacher beat a student to death for turning in math homework late... Read More... Posted Dec 29 2008, 10:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: education, crime, abuse, death, teacher, islam, student, world news, Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid

• Students Make Rev. Phelps Followers Run Away

  Feel-good story? Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, gathered a small protest near Omaha Central High School. The church is led by the Reverend Fred Phelps, and I'm sure you know who these folks are. They became famous when they protested at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, and have gone on to protest everywhere it would horrify you to see picketers, including the funerals of slain service members. You know, the "God Hates Fags" people. (Biting tongue now...) However, when the group held up anti-homosexuality and anti-Obama signs near the high school last Friday, they were met by... Read More... Posted Nov 26 2008, 01:35 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: racism, crime, high school, homophobia, diversity, Kansas, protest, Kelly Mills, obama, hate, student, phelps, westboro baptist church, picket

• No Child Left Behind Sets Impossible Goals

  Yet another of the Bush administration’s chickens has come home to roost, this time in the arena of early education. The No Child Left Behind law has begun creating problems for schools that are not unlike the balloon payments dogging many homeowners. Read More... Posted Oct 13 2008, 03:20 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: education, law, reading, no child left behind, schools, bush administration, NCLB, math, tests, economy, early education laws, requirements, balloon payments, impossible goals, failing schools, proficiency, scores, testing, federal law, improvement, elementary schools, student, homeowners, early education