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Racial disparity found in school paddlings - Boston Globe
6 hours, 34 minutes ago | Tue Aug 19 23:00:00 PDT 2008
WASHINGTON - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them in 2006-2007 - and blacks, American Indians, and children with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study. Even small children ...
Tories claim millions leave school without good GCSEs - Guardian Unlimited
1 hour, 5 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:29:00 PDT 2008
The number of children who leave school without any A-C passes at GCSE is expected to hit 1.9 million when this year's GCSE results are published tomorrow, according to figures obtained by the Conservatives. The statistics show that tens of thousands ...
Cool for school: Ten hot items make the grade this fall - New York Daily News
2 hours, 45 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 2:49:00 PDT 2008
Shanice Williams, 11, shops in the Atlantic Terminal Mall. Click to see photos of our ten must-have back-to-school items. New York 's fashion-forward students are keeping it old school as they head back to their books. From skinny jeans and screen ...
Savage's new school ready, but empty - Minneapolis Star Tribune
1 hour, 5 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:29:00 PDT 2008
Glendale Elementary School Principal Pam Becker, right, gave a tour of Redtail Ridge Elementary to Kristi Mussman, the Prior Lake-Savage district?s communications coordinator. Becker was supposed to have been the principal of the school, which will ...
Groups target corporal punishment in schools - CNN
36 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:58:00 PDT 2008
(CNN) -- The 3-year-old came home in tears from his public pre-kindergarten program, unable to adequately describe what had happened to him or how he had sustained bruises that stretched around his hips to his stomach. His mother figured out he had ...
At Princeton, alumni pride aids No. 1 rank - Chicago Sun-Times
1 hour, 12 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:22:00 PDT 2008
PRINCETON, N.J.---- At Princeton, pride in being ranked No. 1 comes in a rolling wave of orange. There are blazers with orange stripes, orange stars and orange tigers as alumni march through campus at the annual Princeton reunion parade, or P-rade ...
Minorities, Kids With Disabilities More Likely to Be Paddled - FOX News
1 hour, 5 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:29:00 PDT 2008
WASHINGTON ? Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year ? and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group ...
Next chapter for Rogers: Building's future in doubt after this school ... - Stamford Advocate
36 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:58:00 PDT 2008
Second-grade teacher Danielle Pasqua prepares last week at Rogers Magnet Elementary School in Stamford. The building's future is in doubt as students will move to a new magnet school after this year. STAMFORD - A child care center, a community center ...
School Districts Implement Security Changes - WBNS 10TV Columbus
36 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:58:00 PDT 2008
GROVEPORT, Ohio ? Students at more than a dozen central Ohio schools returned to class on Wednesday. An increase in fights at Groveport Madison High School last year prompted the district to increase security for the new school year, 10TV's Patrick ...
Suicide bomber kills 43 people, injures 45 in east Algeria - Xinhua News Agency
36 minutes ago | Wed Aug 20 4:58:00 PDT 2008
ˇ¤A suicide bombing attack on Tuesday killed some 43 people and wounded 45 others. ˇ¤The blast targeted a paramilitary gendarmerie training school in Bumerdes province. ˇ¤Algeria has suffered regular attacks blamed on Islamist militants linked ...