Tag: Education
John Sousa teacher suspended after threatening to send black students back to Africa
Was John Sousa a Wesley Chapel Florida high school teacher just joking? An educator will find out if he is suspended without pay after racist comments.
John Sousa a Florida high school teacher has been suspended after threatening to send...
Right decision? Frank Navarro teacher suspended for comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler
Frank Navarro suspended: Has a San Francisco school made the right decision to suspend a history teacher for comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler?
Fissure has come to the fore after Californian history school teacher Frank Navarro came to be suspended...
Right policy? Texas school bans parents walking children onto/from school property
How Bear Branch Elementary school policy to negotiate foot traffic and congestion led to parents revolting against school principal, Holly Ray.
School officials at Bear Branch Elementary in Magnolia, Texas have enacted a new policy which has already led to...
‘Leigh Anne Arthur stop lying, it’s your fault’, David Eubanks
David Eubanks: Has one educator mixed personal judgement and moral mores for facts?
It seems Interim superintendent of the Union Schools District, South Carolina, David Eubanks has no intention of conceding that he may have after all got it all...
What research says about the value of homework.
The truth on whether homework helps improve the learning needs of students or not remains a mystery that only research can answer. The aspect of homework has over time been in the lime light as a topic of controversy...
Maine Schools to Give Ipads to Kindergarteners. But will they know what to do with them?
As America's youth continue to be outclassed by their foreign peers across the academic board, school administrators continue to look for innovative ways to close the gap. In a shock to all, the L.L. Bean and lobster obsessed people...
Can you make it in America without a college degree?
You will spend almost one third of your life being trained to be a carbon copy of someone or something you do not know. Trained to be part of a collective bigger than yourself, so you can help engender...
Have you applied for your new Kardashian credit card? Celebrities whom Famewhore themselves to riches.
Latest update- January 10- 2011 The Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard will no longer exist in your purse.»
For a while we’ve been talking about the absurd behavior of celebrities (when don’t we ever?) but what strikes us over...
Hide Who You Really Are: The Schools That are Stamping out Self-expression
Is there any phase of life more uncomfortable, self-conscious and altogether confusing than the teenage years? It's all hormones, unrequited love, body-image, self-discovery, and it's embarrassing sometimes to the point of being painful.
Conformity is one of the strongholds...
Shag Bands: “New” Craze Taking Over the Playground.
Outrage in the school yard.
Kids these days are quite clearly depraved. The "newest" fad for UK schoolchildren is to sport 'shag bands', a bunch of brightly colored plastic bracelets that, if snapped, represent varying sexual acts (pink = flash...
Are you Jewish enough?
A judge in the UK has just ruled in what, on the surface, appears to be an open and shut case on a school's admissions policy, but which seems to be dealing with a much more complicated question. Is...
Education with an Indian Spin: ASHA Hosts Its 15th Annual Fundraiser.
Heaving with laughter, Michael Dobrovolsky – Muscovite by birth, New Yorker by choice – knocks over his glass of merlot. He apologizes for the spill.
“You Brighton Beach only like because it’s exotic,” he says. True. Compared to the...
It’s confirmed, California has now become a Banana Republic.
When the American dream no longer works in certain parts of America…
Out of the Guardian comes a sobering report on the current state of affairs in California which has now in some perverse way begun to resemble many of...
