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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
Seeded on Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:00 PM EST (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West's reigning education superpower, Finland.
Board vote makes Idaho first state to require high school students to take 2 online credits
Seeded on Fri Nov 4, 2011 12:00 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Education officials on Thursday gave final approval to a plan that makes Idaho the first state in the nation to require high school students to take at least two credits online to graduate, despite heavy criticism of the plan at public hearings this summer. The measure is p …
Catholic University is sued over Muslim students' rights
Seeded on Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:06 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
A George Washington University law professor who filed a human rights complaint against Catholic University this summer when it eliminated coed dorm floors has filed a second complaint against the school, saying the rights of Muslim students are being violated.
What's it like to play online games as a grownup
Seeded on Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:06 PM EDT ()
Can you excel at online gaming and still have a life?
Holdout law schools to accept military recruiters
Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:34 PM EDT
For Vermont Law School, the price of standing on principle was $500,000.
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We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading -
Seeded on Sun Aug 7, 2011 9:44 AM EDT ( The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
While virtually anyone who wants to do so can train his or her brain to the habits of long-form reading, in any given culture, few people will want to. And that's to be expected.
Graduate Students Hit Hard In Debt Deal
Seeded on Tue Aug 2, 2011 12:45 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
As part of the savings to trim the deficits, Congress would scrap a special kind of federal loan for graduate students. So-called subsidized student loans don't charge students any interest on the principal of student loans until six months after students graduated.
'Three Cups Of Tea' Author Greg Mortenson Still Being Burned By Fraud Scandal
Seeded on Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:45 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
"Three Cups Of Tea" author Greg Mortenson continues to face charges that his story was fabricated and the financial statements for his foundation, Central Asia Institute (CAI), are faulty. As fallout from the controversy continues, contributors are questioning their support for …
Panorama: quarter of children have looked at pornography in last year
Seeded on Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:51 PM EST (Telegraph)
"A quarter of children have looked at pornography in the last year, according to LSE research used in a Panorama programme about the sexualisation of young children.
Court OKs blind student's software for bar exam
Seeded on Thu Jan 6, 2011 1:26 AM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)
A blind Bay Area law graduate was entitled to use computer-assisted reading devices that gave her the best chance of passing the California bar exam, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a broad interpretation of disability laws.
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