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As part of the "Academic Boycott of Israel," BDS professors speak about how to most effectively demonize Israel in "every classroom." In a breakout session of the “Academic Boycott of Israel” initiative, Amy Kaplan, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania spoke about how teachers can most effectively demonize Israel in every classroom as well as the "positive aspects" of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Ian McKeachie is a freckled 15-year-old who "drifted along" in elementary school. Not because he didn't love to learn or because it wasn't a good school, but because he mastered new concepts so quickly that the classroom work presented no challenge. "My teachers would usually use me as a tutor for the other kids," he says, "so I was engaged in school, just not in a way that had me learning."

LONDON – A new report from London-based theology think tank Theos has criticized attempts to restrict the influence of religious beliefs on education. "Doing God in Education" is authored by Professor Trevor Cooling, director of the National Institute for Christian Education Research at Canterbury Christ Church University. He calls attempts to ban religious faith from shaping education misguided and harmful. In particular, he challenges the prevailing assumption that education should be based on human knowledge and rationality because they are objective and independent of the “clutter” of religious beliefs. Professor Cooling warns that such a position only privileges secular worldviews...

PEABODY, Mass. -A Massachusetts teacher cleaning up her classroom in preparation for a move has discovered a Colonial-era document buried in a pile of outdated textbooks and dusty scraps of papers. Michelle Eugenio, a fourth-grade teacher in Peabody, Mass., found the yellowed sheet of paper two weeks ago. Dated April 1792 and protected by plastic, it appears to document the payment of a debt by a Vermont man named Jonathan Bates. Peabody Historical Society President Bill Power verified the paper's authenticity. He tells The Salem News he was thrilled with the discovery. No one knows how the paper ended up...

...Pointing out that I have made no secret about films I have issues with, she asked what films I would consider ‘acceptable’ for classroom viewing. I thought you’d never ask…

SNIPPET: "Kabul, 21 April (AKI) - At least 12 female students were hospitalised in Afghanistan on Wednesday after inhaling a poisonous substance sprayed at a school in northern Afghanistan. The 12 students of the Fatima Zahra Girl School, and a teacher and an assistant were mysteriously poisoned, Hamayon Khamush, director of the hospital in Kunduz city, was quoted as saying by Xinhua." SNIPPET: "To defend their ideology, Taliban militants have attacked girl students with gas and acid." SNIPPET: "In May last year 90 girls were hospitalised in Kapisa province, north-east of the capital, after someone sprayed toxic chemicals in the...

Amidst continued reverberations from the worst campus shooting in our nation's history at Virginia Tech in 2007 came news of yet another shooting on a "no-guns" Virginia campus earlier this month. According to news reports, as 20 year-old James Michael Hamilton stood at the entrance to his math classroom with a long black canvas bag at his side, oblivious classmates filed into a classroom, apparently giving nary a thought to what was in the bag, or why Hamilton had suddenly decided to reappear at the class after having been absent for several weeks. Although at least one student reportedly questioned...

Athens, Greece, Dec 4, 2009 / 06:55 am (CNA).- The head of the Greek Orthodox Church has voiced his opposition to a court ban on crucifixes in classrooms in Italy and will hold an emergency synod to lay out a plan of action to combat the ban. Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece said that the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) had ignored the role of Christianity in Europe’s history. According to the BBC, he added that majorities, not only minorities, have rights.The Orthodox Church fears the EHCR ruling could trigger similar rulings about the public display of...

(Too short to excerpt) MOUNT VERNON — Things appeared calm and quiet this morning at Mount Vernon Middle School as students and staff followed their normal routines. Mount Vernon City police officers were stationed in the entry lobby, presumably to prevent unauthorized entry and to protect the students’ privacy. Middle school officials declined to comment on reports of students wearing T-shirts and carrying signs in support of science teacher John Freshwater. Several students had also planned to take Bibles to classes in support of Freshwater’s refusal to remove a Bible from his classroom desk. Superintendent Steve Short said the students...

Incident Occurred Two Weeks AgoJANESVILLE, Wis. -- A classroom incident at a Janesville high school two weeks ago is raising some concerns about freedom of speech and school safety. Some Janesville parents said that they're concerned that in this incident, in which a student allegedly tore pages from a Bible, the balance between the two was tipped toward the First Amendment, WISC-TV reported. As many Parker High School students get ready for Christmas break, junior Elle Jacobson is at home and will not be returning like her friends. "I have never felt threatened like that in a classroom before,"...

New Orleans, LA (AHN) - Four middle school students used an unattended classroom to have sex with other students inside the classroom, posting an 11-year-old boy as a lookout. Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley said, "After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore. But this comes pretty close." The incident took place on March 27 at Spearsville School in rural Louisiana. All five students were arrested at the school on Tuesday. Those students included two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy and the 11-year-old lookout, who was charged as being an accessory. The...

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BURLESON, Texas (AP) -- A suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school district has halted a program teaching students to attack a gunman if he invades a classroom, administrators said Wednesday. The district will continue to train students in how to respond to life-threatening situations but no longer will show them how to take down an attacker, spokesman Richard Crummel said. Robin Browne, an instructor for Response Options, the security company that provided the training, had recommended that students and teachers "react immediately to the sight of a gun by picking up anything and everything and throwing it at the head and...

WILLIAM Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. After his mother remarried, he took the family surname, Clinton. Clinton was a good student. He enjoyed playing the saxophone and even considered a professional musical career. While in high school, a fortuitous meeting with President John Kennedy led him to choose a life of public service.

Teacher's union begins plans to promote homosexual marriage in public schools The National Education Association is set to endorse homosexual marriage at their convention coming up in Orlando June 29 through July 6. The new NEA proposal essentially says schools should support and actively promote homosexual marriage and other forms of marriage (two men and one woman, three women, two women and three men, etc.) in their local schools. The new proposal, expected to pass overwhelmingly, is found under the B-8 Diversity paragraph: The Association... believes in the importance of observances, programs and curricula that accurately portray and recognize the...

PUPILS taking citizenship classes are being invited to get into the mind of the terrorists who carried out the September 11 attacks. Teaching packs entitled 9/11: The Main Chance, which invite pupils to imagine organising a terrorist attack, have been distributed to schools running the Government’s much-vaunted citizenship classes. One worksheet asks the pupils to imagine what terrorist targets there are in their neighbourhoods. They have then to suggest what weapons and methods should be used to ensure the most effective results. At the end of the worksheets, which are funded through the Government’s neighbourhood renewal programmes, a number of...

Afghan children learn the alphabet in one of five classrooms donated by Bazaar Mayor Bang, a local businessman. U.S. Army photo by 1st. Lt. Matthew A. Psilos Zabul Province Children Return to Classroom Three volunteer teachers and 60 students traveled as far as nine miles to attend the first day of school. By U.S. Army Capt. Lawrence Sekajipo Task Force Warrior QALAT, Afghanistan, June 9, 2006 — More than 75 children in Khakeran and Anwari valleys, Deh Chopan district, celebrated the first day of school May 27 despite enemy insurgents’ intimidation throughout Zabul Province. Three volunteer teachers and 60...

PHOENIX -- State lawmakers voted Tuesday to tell every public school, community college and state university to put an American flag in every classroom. But who is going to pay for it remains unclear. The legislation given preliminary Senate approval on a voice vote requires each governing board to seek donations of two-by-three foot flags -- made in the U.S. only -- or seek cash to put one in every room. They also would have to obtain flagpoles and other hardware. HB 2583 also says, though, that if the boards can't get the required number of flags by July 1,...

Kassams in Sderot: Classroom Hit With Students Waiting Outside 10:22 May 21, '06 / 23 Iyar 5766 by Hillel Fendel 2-3 Gaza-fired rockets hit the Negev city of Sderot this morning. One hit an empty classroom while the students were praying in a different room, and another caused two women to go into shock. The first rocket was fired by Palestinian terrorists from northern Gaza shortly after 7:30 AM, landing at the Gevim Junction just south of Sderot. Two women were treated at the site for shock. Shortly afterwards, the Red Dawn early-warning alarm system sounded, giving the residents some...

PoliticsInTheClassroom.com is a new site dedicated to helping students put politically biased professors on record. Visit the Site: Politics in the ClassroomIt seems like almost every other week the antics of politically biased teachers and administrators make national headlines. Teachers need to stop indoctrinating and get back to educating. This site seems like a good idea, at least in the sense that it might deter biased teachers from imposing their political views on students.

School investigating after boys forced to clean up restroom Officials in the Bird Island, Olivia, Lake Lillian (BOLD) school district are investigating after a teacher forced boys in her kindergarten class to clean a restroom smeared with feces. "The district is in the process of investigating what occurred, and we will deal with it," said BOLD Superintendent Mike Funk. "I can assure you that this will not happen again." Funk said he has spoken with the parents of two of the ten boys involved in the clean-up. He said the teacher will write a letter to the other parents to...

Check your local listings for airtimes. (Current show is updated every weekday at 5pm EST.) HEALTH Health Experts Warn of Antidepressant Dangers for Children, Teens By Darla SittonCBN News Producer In America, Prozac is the only drug the FDA has "approved" for pediatric depression. CBN.com – (CBN News) - As many as one in eight adolescents suffers from clinical depression. And these kids are often treated with anti-depressant drugs that have been tested and approved for adult use. But the drugs may not be safe for children. Corey Baadsgaard doesn't remember storming into his honors English class with a...

An accented, angry voice comes over the intercom system: "Attention, attention teachers. You must move your students to the auditorium immediately." There are screams and confusion in the hallways.... Another teacher, sensing the spreading danger, closes and locks her classroom door, quickly she yells to open the windows and tells the children to climb out and run away. A driver passing by sees a group of children rolling off the school's window ledges and darting across the athletic field.

Police probe gap in school video Ten minutes of tape missing Published in the Asbury Park Press 03/3/05 By NAOMI MUELLER TOMS RIVER BUREAU BRICK -- Police are investigating what else was on video footage that showed a Brick Township High School teacher screaming at his class and pulling the chair from underneath a student who refused to stand for the national anthem, according to Lt. Doug Kinney. The nearly two-minute video was made by a student in Stuart Mantel's electronics class and was posted on several independent Web sites. It shows Mantel, a teacher in the school for the...

No. 16 in our series from NoIndoctrination.org. Parents need to read this before spending their money on what they believe is an education for their offspring. ========================================================= PREVIOUS ENEMIES -- 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ========================================================= Warning: Postings are only opinions. (See Terms of Service)Record for NoIndoctrination.org entry #195.   Cabrillo College Mar. 20, 2003     http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us CA     Course: Soc 2: Modern Social Problems   Course Catalog Description: Examines major modern social problems and alternative solutions. Problems considered may include race, sex, age discrimination, drug abuse, poverty, deviance, sexual behavior, crime and such...

Freepers - I just learned that I am going to be forced to watch Iraq: Truth, War and Consequences in my classroom. Here is the e-mail I received from the instructor: ---- A few of you have gone ahead and taken the remarkable step of actually reading your syllabus and have discovered there is a video that will need to be viewed outside of class. The name of the video is Iraq: Truth, War and Consequences and was released by Frontline on PBS in November 2003, about a month before Saddam's capture. We will be watching several Frontline videos in...

Intellectual Diversity In The Classroom Wednesday, December 8, 2004 by Bruce Bartlett Although conservatives complain loudly and often about liberal bias in the mass media, the truth is that one is far more likely to read a conservative perspective in the New York Times than hear it from a college professor. At least the Times publishes an occasional conservative on its op-ed page. At many universities, just finding a Republican anywhere on the faculty is problematic. Two recent studies by Santa Clara University economist Daniel B. Klein prove my point. In one study, he looked at party registration of the...

My husband and I were just fuming the other day, when we both simultaneously read an article about a principal who would not permit a teacher to use The Declaration of Independence in his classroom because God was mentioned in the document. My husband was so mad that he immediately wrote a piece about the incident, in which he suggested that it was treason to force a teacher to exclude our founding documents from the curriculum. My colleague had an interesting take on the situation, as well. He suggested that if we get our divine right to freedom from God,...

The students who read Weekly Reader’s magazines have made their preference for President known: they want to send President Bush back to the White House. The results of this year’s Weekly Reader poll have just been announced, and the winner is President Bush. Hundreds of thousands of students participated, giving the Republican President more than 60% of the votes cast and making him a decisive choice over Democratic Senator John Kerry.

The Crimes of Christopher Columbus Dinesh D'Souza Multiculturalism is presented by its advocates in the schools and universities as a benign alternative to monoculturalism. Historian Peter Stearns insists that the multicultural debate "is between those who think there are special marvelous features about the Western tradition that students should be exposed to, and others who feel it's much more important for students to have a sense of the way the larger world has developed." This is the unmistakable appeal of multiculturalism: it is obviously better to study many cultures rather than a single culture, to have diverse points of...

You might say it is a symbol of the Great American Divide, a teacher putting up a picture of President Bush in the classroom. Some say it is partisanship while others say it is patriotism. Rita Bianco, Parent: "Children should know their president and their first lady!" Parents expressing outrage after a teacher is kicked out of her public school for hanging a picture of President Bush next to pictures of other presidents in her classroom.

LOS ANGELES - California teachers may have to scale back their out-of-pocket spending on classroom supplies after losing state and federal tax breaks that helped lower their costs. The state Teacher Retention Tax Credit repaid educators up to $1,500 in taxes to cover some expenses but was suspended last month under the state budget plan. At the same time, a federal tax deduction for up to $250 for teachers' extra expenses expired this year. With school budgets already tight, some worry that halting the tax breaks could prompt teachers to ration their spending on glue, crayons and other supplies or...

(Southington-AP) -- A teacher at Southington High School could be disciplined after giving students a handout featuring math problems involving sex, drugs and violence. Salena Mabarkia, a Spanish and French teacher, gave each of her classes a fake test titled "The City of Detroit High School Math Proficiency Exam." Mabarkia could not reached for comment.

<p>Regarding the letter to the editor Thursday "Animosity toward Bush a bad example for kids," from a veteran teacher.</p> <p>What sets a bad example is attitudes like those of Marilyn Houser.</p> <p>For too long, educators have been quiet and uninvolved in politics and public policy.</p>

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Three third-grade boys who brought tiny action figure toy guns to school received one-day suspensions for violating the Spokane School District's zero-tolerance weapons policy. District officials said the suspensions Tuesday also were given because the 2-inch-long GI Joe toys violated a policy against bringing toys to school. "They don't need toys during the school day. If kids are playing with toys, they are not attending to school," Bemiss Elementary School Principal Lorna Spear said. Spear called two of the boys' parents Tuesday and met with another and agreed on the disciplinary actions. Two boys, who allegedly used...

I am certified to teach public school students up to the 12th grade. In order to teach kids in grades 6-12, I must have a major or a minor in a particular subject. If I don’t have the qualifications I won’t be eligible to teach at that grade level. It’s as simple as that. As a matter of fact, even though I am already a teacher of middle school students and have a M Ed in Education, I will be considered unqualified to teach middle school according to the more stringent standards of NCLB if I do not take two...

A ban on allowing school classrooms to be used as brothels and strip bars has been ordered by education officials in Ukraine. Headteachers in the country have often leased out excess space to firms to raise extra income for the school coffers. No checks are made on how the headteachers choose to lease the space and in the past, bars and clubs have been opened on school property. The latest discovery that brothels are plying their trade next to the school playground has prompted the education ministry to act and an investigation has started into what ways schools' excess space...

Everyone agrees the educational system in this country is in crisis. Teachers are generally under-paid and faced with performing in overcrowded classrooms where they have no recourse for discipline problems. They are expected to succeed in their efforts despite these facts. And they are literally forced to join the most liberal unions in the country, unions that do very little to help on the front lines of teaching other than pontificate their liberal agendas, which routinely remove the power in the classroom from the teacher and place it with the students and their parents who are largely disconnected from the...

I’m thinking about the dinner table and what kind of meals my mom made for the family when I was a kid. Sometimes we had TV dinners, if it was just the kids eating. Most often, my mother tried to put a meal on the table…at least up until she and my father separated. She provided for 6 people. We usually had some kind of meat and a green vegetable and a starch. Sometimes there was salad and dessert. She didn’t do too badly meeting our nutritional needs. She was no expert on food science but we all grew up...

A head teacher has angered parents by asking them to stop their daughters from wearing thongs to school.Anna Roxburgh, the head of Hamp Junior High School in Bridge Water, Somerset made the plea to parents of 6th Grade Girls, ages 10-11.In a letter she said she had no objection to thongs personally.But she was concerned about the girl possible embarassment while changing for Physical Education Class, falling over in the playground or doing handstands. Hamp Junior High is a mixed -sexes school with 270 puplis. One mother said the letter was 'unbeliveable.' She added: 'Schools lay down enough rules without...

After college, I taught in a public school for five years and paid off my student loan. Later, while a commercial real estate broker, I taught RE law, finance, econ, and practice at the college level. With all of the nonsense we have heard from classroom teachers, I would like to give them some guidelines while we are at war. This is what the students need to hear. 1. We are hoping that our troops come home soon with a minimum of casualties. 2. We want the United States to win the war, not Iraq. 3. Saddam Hussein is evil,...

Increasingly we are hearing reports in the media about partisan politics being offered to the American children within the sanctity of the classroom. This practice can in no way, shape or form be considered by the American educational system or by the American people as tolerable. In Vermont, a parent was denied access to his children and access to their school by the principal and an armed guard while a school sanctioned peace rally was held inside. The concerned parent was even denied information about what was being said to his children and because of his insistence on knowing what...

To the Editor: Re "Cuckoo in Carolina," by Thomas L. Friedman (column, Aug. 28): There is an argument for studying the Koran that conservative Christian groups may not have considered: America has been forced into a state of war against Islamic terrorists, and to fight them effectively, we must first understand them. Because most Islamic countries enjoy no separation of mosque and state, such understanding cannot be achieved without studying the Koran. ELLEN SCHNEIDER Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Aug. 28, 2002

The Poway Unified School Board voted unamiously Monday night to demote a Rancho Bernardo High School assistant principal to a teaching position because of a thong check she conducted at a high school dance.Rita Wilson who had girl lift their skirts to make sure they were not wearing thong underwear at a April 26 dance, was re-assigned to a 'certified non-adminstrative position on a 5-0 vote.The shool board heard about an hour of public comment, then discussed the matter in private for more than 90 minutes before announcing the decision

‘Dumb and Dumber’ movie in classroom no laughing matter Class time isn’t supposed to be showtime. As painfully obvious as that ought to seem, eighth-graders in one Somersworth Middle School class have logged quite a few hours watching possibly as many as 40 movies this year while school was in session. This wasn’t a class in filmmaking. And we’re not talking about documentaries or films that had anything remotely to do with the lesson plan du jour. Rather, we’re talking about entertainment fare such as "Dumb and Dumber," "Jurassic Park" and "Dante’s Peak." The only thing missing — besides educational...