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A federal court has ordered the state of Colorado to stop discriminating against students of a Christian college, a facility that state officials determined provided too much religion. The state for years has provided grants to students of secular institutions as well as students at a Methodist university and a Roman Catholic university, according to yesterday's opinion from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. However, students at Colorado Christian University, a non-denominational evangelical Protestant university, were banned from the grant program after state officials decided the school was too pervasively sectarian. "We find the exclusion unconstitutional for two reasons:...

(IsraelNN.com) The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israeli police have arrested and charged six Israeli-Arabs, among them Hebrew University students, for planning an Al-Qaeda attack on a senior US official. The group, including four residents of eastern Jerusalem, are suspected of operating an al-Qaeda cell in Israel's capital and planning to shoot down a helicopter carrying a senior US official. The six suspects were identified by police as: Ibrahim Nashef, 22, of Tayibe: Physics and computer sciences student at the Hebrew University; Muhammad Najem, 24, of Nazareth: Chemistry student at the Hebrew University; Anas Shawiki, 21, of the Jerusalem...

Maryland can't find any kids to eat free SCHOOL lunches during the SUMMER. One genius said, "We would go into alleys and hand out fliers about the program." Maybe they should check the dumpsters, landfills, and junkyards too. Or maybe the kids are just eating lunch at home. Undaunted, liberals will keep trying like hell to throw our money away.

The Netherlands will ban Iranian students from studying nuclear technology, a source of tension between Iran and world powers, at its universities, the government said Friday. "It is forbidden... to grant Iranian nationals access to special training or teaching that could contribute to nuclear proliferation activities in Iran and the development of systems for transmitting nuclear arms," the foreign ministry said in a statement. Some powers including the United States suspect Iran of seeking to develop a nuclear bomb. Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed at producing energy to serve a growing population. Friday's measure adds to a Dutch...

<p>College girls who turned the tables on builders by wolf-whistling at them have been warned their behaviour is ‘harassment’.</p> <p>The students singled out contractors working on an extension to West Kent College for amorous comments and cheeky remarks.</p> <p>But the joke has become so persistent that the pupils have been threatened with disciplinary action.</p>

Anyone who isn’t aware that there are major problems in our public school systems must be a recent graduate of a public school system. There are exceptions to any rule but, in general, what follows is substantially applicable to American schools. In a word, they are failing. New York City School Chancellor, Joel Klein, has said, "It is the greatest domestic issue we as Americans face.” I wouldn’t presume to have all the answers to remedy the chaos in many classrooms, declining test scores amidst inflated grades, violence and lack of motivation, overcrowding due to illegal immigration, all of which...

From the Liberals Hurt Our Kids File. Via the Washington Post. Fairfax County School Board members said they are likely to abandon a staff report that showed racial and ethnic gaps in some measures of student behavior, including in the demonstration of "sound moral character and ethical judgment." The board had delayed an April vote to approve the report after concerns were raised that findings were based on subjective measures, such as elementary report card data, and that they would fuel negative stereotypes. [snip] The school system's report was an early attempt to measure progress on a host of goals...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son's kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class. After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Barton's 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo said they were going to take a vote, Barton said. By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex — who is in the process of being diagnosed with autism — out of the class. Melissa Barton filed a complaint with Morningside's school resource officer, who investigated the matter, Port St....

Foreign Students Do Not Help with the Balance of Payments WASHINGTON (May 2008) – Lobbying groups frequently claim that foreign students are a benefit to America’s balance of payments, comparable to a booming export sector. For instance, the Institute for International Education (IIE) asserts that foreign students contributed a net $14.5 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2006-07 school year by paying for tuition and living expenses with resources from abroad, representing a net inflow of nearly $25,000 per year, every year, from the average foreign student. To assess these claims, the Center for Immigration Studies has published a...

The controversy is over a T-shirt that read "puschin' it to the limit" and on the back it reads "Class of .08 Seniors."

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2008 – Web-based social-networking and video-sharing sites such as “MySpace” and “YouTube” may be the best place to turn to entice the nation’s best and brightest young people to work for the Defense Department. That is among the conclusions of college business students who entered a contest to help the department increase its applicant pool for critical civilian jobs that require foreign-language abilities. The students, undergraduates at five U.S.-based colleges and universities, were recognized at a Pentagon ceremony today for their recruiting and marketing plans. “Sometimes we get down on young people,” Patricia Bradshaw, DoD’s deputy undersecretary...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELTA — An initiative to connect Iraqi students and teachers with the rest of the world via Internet is underway in Wasit Province. The Wasit Provincial Reconstruction Team, in concert with the Wasit Director General of Education, started a yearlong initiative in March called Access to Information. The program will provide local schools and libraries with books and resources and open Internet centers to selected secondary schools, universities and municipal library headquarters in al-Hayy and al-Kut, said Vanessa Beary, the PRT public diplomacy officer. he program started with the opening of an Internet center at the al-Kut...

GARY, Ind. (WLS) -- The presidential primary campaign in northwest Indiana already includes a big controversy involving high school seniors in Gary who have been taken out of school recently and bused to nearby Crowne Point to learn about early voting, and, if they're 18, to cast their own ballots. It was more of an experience, we got to see how government runs, on a one-on-one basis, more than textbook and learning materials. It was a privilege first and foremost and an honor," said Adam Brown, Gary student. The nearby Hammond mayor and Sen. Hillary Clinton supporter says the program...

HILLAH — An English Day program at the regional embassy office in al-Hillah gave 25 students and 15 staff and faculty members from Babil province a chance to hone their English skills on April 19. Five students from five different schools, two English teachers from those schools, the director general for education and other representatives from the department of education took advantage of the interaction with the Babil provincial reconstruction team and the 411th Civil Affairs Battalion. “I think it was as positive of an interaction for us on our side as it is for them,” said Kim Sonn, public...

A community college in New York has been presented with a demand letter from the American Center for Law and Justice to halt a professor's classroom practices that allegedly have damaged at least one student – so far. The letter from the ACLJ targets Suffolk County Community College and will be the prelude to a federal lawsuit if the issue isn't resolved, the organization said. At issue is a professor's demand that students "change their own personal viewpoints or state that they are unsure of whether their own personal beliefs are correct" on religious issues, according to the letter. That...

In our last installment of Ducks Cant Fly we talked about a few things that Chinese people think they know but are absolutely ridiculous. Like the fact that ducks cant fly. In this installment we I will talk about some study habits and thinks Chinese students think they know. 1. You can not study or read while you are eating. One day during class at a major university in Xi'an my students ask me how they can get better at English. I suggested reading their English books and only speaking English with each other at lunch. This met with unanimous...

Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and...

Updated: April 8, 2008 05:26 PM EDT ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Alfred University has cancelled all classes and closed the library per police request. ALFRED, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Police are on campus at Alfred University, investigating a report of a Hispanic male, possibly carrying a gun. He is described as wearing a green hoodie sweatshirt and carrying a back pack. Faculty and students are being advised to remain inside where they are, not to go outside. Update: The following email has been sent out to the campus: Alfred State College has been advised that the description of the...

MOSUL — The Iraqi Army rescued 42 college students after they were kidnapped by al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists in southwestern Mosul April 6. The AQI attacked two university buses with small-arms fire wounding three. The other 42 students were abducted. The three wounded students were taken to a local hospital while Iraqi Forces searched for the missing students. The soldiers identified a dump truck with a tarp over the back behaving suspiciously. The vehicle was stopped after warning shots were fired. The driver and passenger fled to a local residence. Some of the students also left the area immediately after...

Conservatives complain that college professors lean left when it comes to politics — and the data mostly show that's true. But new research suggests the personal politics of academics have little effect on what their students think. The research, to be published this year in the journal PS: Political Science and Politics, analyzes separate surveys on the attitudes of about 6,800 students at 38 universities and how they changed between their freshman and senior years. Then it examines whether those results are affected by the political attitudes of the faculty at their particular schools. The short answer is no, according...

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - It's been almost two months since the sugar refinery explosion. Since then, we've shared stories of so many fundraisers for the families who've been directly impacted by this tragedy. It shows how this community has really pulled together during a time of need. Today, students and staff at Savannah High School are pulling together to show their support for several of their own....students, who presented [a teacher] and three other families each with a $150 gas card to help pay for the many trips to and from Augusta. [snip}...Students at Savannah high say they were happy...

Sponsored by the Ohio Board of Regents, STARS (Student Achievement in Research and Scholarship) is a statewide faculty mentoring program for undergraduate underrepresented or low income, first generation students who are preparing themselves for graduate school and ultimately academic careers.

Seek to raise awareness of homelessness Stang students set up their cardboard-box shelters Saturday for a chilly night under the stars to raise awareness of homelessness.DAVID W. OLIVEIRA/Standard-Times special DARTMOUTH — It's 6 p.m. on a Saturday night. The temperature is hovering in the 30s, and the wind whips across the unprotected athletic fields at Bishop Stang High School. There are no sporting events going on, save some pickup football and a game that involves throwing washers into a hole. But more than 100 students, dressed in bulky layers, have congregated on the field, amid rows of cardboard boxes covered...

Two injured after shooting in dorm parking lot in Tyler © 2008 The Associated Press TYLER, Texas — Two people were injured early Thursday morning after being shot in a parking lot outside a Texas College dorm in Tyler, police say. Tyler Police Lt. Derreck Wagoner tells Tyler television station KLTV that one person was shot in the abdomen and the other was shot in the hand. Wagoner says the abdomen wound victim is hospitalized in serious

Lucius Vorenus posted this question IQ and the Wealth of Nations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations Rank Country IQ 1 Hong Kong 107 2 South Korea 106 3 Japan 105 4 Taiwan 104 5 Singapore 103 List of countries and territories by fertility rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_fertility_rate Rank Country 2000 2007 207 South Korea 1.72 1.28 214 Japan 1.41 1.23 219 Taiwan 1.76 1.12 220 Singapore 1.16 1.07 221 Macau 1.30 1.03 222 Hong Kong 1.27 0.98 QUESTION: Why have the peoples of the Pacific Rim, who are among the smartest in the world, stopped making babies, and why were they making vastly fewer babies in...

Posted by Lucius Vorenus QUESTIONS: Do you know people in Mainland China who are Christians? Can they talk about their Christianity in public, or must they speak about it only in private? Do you know people in Taiwan who are Christians? If so, can they talk about their Christianity in public, or are they ridiculed by their secular friends? Is it safe yet for a Chinese person to be Christian, or must Chinese people still practice their Christianity only in secrecy? If you and your friends are not Christians, then what do you think of Christians?

Rutgers Daily Targum reports "about 50" demonstrators braved the weather to demonstrate on behalf of those "poor mistreated" Palestinians.

Protests Flare at 2 Iranian Campuses Students Demand End to Ban on Activists, Ouster of College Head By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service March 5, 2008 TEHRAN, March 4 -- Hundreds of students at two Iranian universities have mounted protests in recent days to decry the expulsion of student activists and call for the resignation of a government-appointed campus president. Between 100 and 200 students at Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran protested Tuesday against the recent banning of 40 students who had organized demonstrations against university authorities. In the central Iranian city of Shiraz, students have called for a...

Please come on over to White Devil and leave some questions for my Chinese students. Any and all questions will be answered. Don't be afraid to ask anything.

Student group pushes for right to carry concealed weapons on campus By Kathy Boccella Inquirer Staff Writer Along with books, laptop and cell phone, there is something else that Jeremy Clark thinks is essential to bring to class: his gun. The Villanova University law student said the sickening spate of campus shootings, from Virginia Tech to Northern Illinois University, left him feeling vulnerable without his Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_left_story/20080301_After_shootings__national_student_group_pushes_for_right_to_carry_concealed_weapons_on_campus_.html

Police say up to 1,500 students rampaged through streets yesterday outside Reading High School in an after-school gathering that turned violent as officers arrived to control the crowd. Some students threw rocks and bottles and hit parked cars with baseball bats in the Wednesday afternoon melee that began with an anniversary celebration of the Dominican Republic's independence from Spain. Police Capt. Edward Kosmerl received several stitches for a head injury when struck by a rock. At least a half-dozen students were apprehended. Police say further information about the arrested students wasn't immediately available. Police say the unruly crowd marched through...

About 1,000 students from Prairie View A&M University marched more than seven miles from campus to the Waller County courthouse on the first day of early voting Tuesday to bring attention to county voting problems. The students organized the Tuesday rally to convince lawmakers to allow early voting on campus, since other county voting centers are long distances away from the Prairie View. Students, joined by civil rights attorneys and local leaders, carried "Register to Vote" signs and wore shirts that said "It is 2008 and we will vote." The total crowd was estimated at about 2,000 people, police said.

It would take months for the agency that licenses Oregon teachers to discipline a Salem-area teacher for inappropriately touching at least eight girls. To get Kenneth John Cushing, then 44, away from Claggett Creek Middle School students immediately, administrators cut him a deal: If Cushing resigned, they would conceal his alleged conduct -- clutching students' waists, touching their buttocks and massaging their shoulders -- from the public. Cushing signed the pact -- obtained by The Oregonian through public records requests -- with Salem-Keizer Public Schools in 2004, and officials promised not to reveal the teacher's behavior if potential employers called...

The credit crunch that has so far caused more than $100 billion of losses for big Wall Street investment firms now extends to students in Michigan, and it could soon hit many other borrowers, ranging from California museums to the prestigious Deerfield Academy prep school in Massachusetts. Yesterday, the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority, a state agency, said on its Web site that "due to the current and unprecedented capital-markets disruption" it will stop making loans under the state's Michigan Alternative Student Loan, or MI-Loan, program. More than 100 Michigan colleges and universities participate in the program. In the...

Another Police Attack on Tehran University February 01, 2008 Rooz Alborz Mahmudi While the Sunday police attack on students at Tehran University resulted in injuries to ten ‎of them and the arrest of more than five, University officials either remained silent about ‎the incident or complete denied it.‎ After the bloody police attack on students on July 9, 1999, Iran’s Supreme National ‎Security Council under the chairmanship of reformist president Mohammad Khatami ‎banned the intrusion of police into university campuses. To enter the campuses, the ‎police was required to first obtain the approval of the supervisory board and president of...

Two Mesa lawmakers are crafting legislation to give teachers and some students a chance to shoot back if they’re fired upon. The proposals by Sen. Karen Johnson and Rep. Russell Pearce would allow anyone who has obtained a state permit to carry a concealed weapon onto the campus of a public school, something that is now a crime under state law. It also would overrule similar policies at community colleges and state universities.

KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 24, 2008 – With Task Force Saber paratroopers acting as a continuing liaison with schools in Afghanistan’s Kunar and Nuristan provinces, a partnership that began in May is helping educate Afghan children. Task Force Saber soldiers have supplied a tent for these Afghan students and their teacher. Very few schools in Afghanistan’s Kunar province have buildings. Photo by Capt. Jay VanDenbos, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The partnership links children and schools in Afghanistan with children and schools primarily in the United States, Italy and Germany to provide Afghan children with pens, pencils,...

Suspicious Death in Iran Prison January 22, 2008 The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) FIDH The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI) urge the Iranian authorities to investigate the death in prison of Mr. Ebrahim Lotfollahi. FIDH and LDDHI furthermore express their deep concern over the increasingly frequent arrests of student activists and women’s rights defenders over the past months. Mr. Ebrahim Lotfollahi, a Kurdish law student, died in the prison of Sanandaj, in Iran’s Kurdish northwestern region, on January 15th, 2008. Mr Lotfollahi was arrested, for unknown...

Fulton County schools want to pay students to stay in school a little longer. Forty students from Creekside High and Bear Creek Middle schools in Fairburn will be the first to try the "Learn & Earn" program, where students will get paid to attend after-school tutoring programs. Students will make approximately $8 an hour, and be eligible for bonuses if their grades improve, said Kirk Wilks, district spokesman. The initial students are in the eighth and 11th grades. There will be a community kick-off Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Creekside High media center, 7405 Herndon Rd., Fairburn. With the...

Boundaries crossed in coach-student relationships By Doug Schneider Press & Sun-Bulletin StoryChat Post CommentStoryChat A coach is entrusted by parents with teaching children the physical, social and moral values inherent in high school athletics. A student-athlete, often near the cusp of adulthood, depends on that adult for the teaching, guidance and discipline associated with pursuing a common goal. Usually, the scenario plays out without significant issues: The coach acts as role-model, sounding board and sometimes fill-in parent; the student learns, grows, and often leaves the program a better person than he or she was before entering into the relationship. But...

'Dutch Universities Rejecting Iranian Students due to Nuclear Threat' THE HAGUE, 03/01/08 - The universities of Enschede and Eindhoven are no longer admitting any students from Iran. They say they are forced to do so by the government, according to newspaper Trouw. The technical universities must state in a declaration that new Iranian students will not in any way whatsoever have access to knowledge on nuclear technology. The universities cannot and do not want to issue this statement because, as they say, their students are entitled to all information available. The third technical university, the TU Delft, does reportedly still...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2007 – The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is looking for eligible students to apply for its 2008 scholarships. “These scholarships provide life-changing opportunities for students that need financial assistance towards a college degree, and they increase their chances for success in their personal and professional lives,” said Chris Randolph, the foundation’s president. “That’s critical for our Marine families.” Eligible students must be children of a current U.S. Marine or of a living or dead retired Marine. They also must be high school graduates or registered as undergraduate students at an accredited educational institution and have a...

Reflecting a shifting national philosophy on how to educate middle-grade students, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is considering expanding several elementary schools to include students up to eighth grade, going back to a pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade structure once the norm in the District. Rhee has been discussing the idea with parents and teachers for the past several weeks as part of her proposal to close nearly two dozen schools. The idea is being met with skepticism from elementary school parents who do not want adolescents in the buildings with their young children and elementary school teachers who are opposed...

THE PROBLEM When Andrew Coburn, a teacher at the Met High Schools in Providence, R.I., met his new ninth grader, a Cambodian immigrant, she spoke fluent English but read at a third-grade level. Her slender frame seemed to radiate depression. School, Mr. Coburn thought, seemed a place she wanted to get away from as soon as she could. Even if she lasted for four years of high school, she would have nine years of academic ground to cover. But first the teacher needed to get her to stay in school. THE SOLUTION Mr. Coburn, who has taught for eight years...

International Ph.D. Scholars Discovered Slain In Campus Apartment; Home Invasion Suspected BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 14, 2007 Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, two international Ph.D. students at Louisiana State University, were found dead inside a campus apartment, police said, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. (AP / CBS) (CBS/AP) Two international students were found shot to death inside an apartment at a university in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and authorities said Friday the men were likely slain during a home invasion. The victims, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both international Ph.D. students at Louisiana State University, were...

SIERRA VISTA — Ron and Joanne Wagner were guests of honor during a special celebration at Sierra Vista Middle School on Monday. The Wagners, who had purchased a Christmas tree that had been donated to the Festival of Trees by the middle school, gave the tree back to the school for students and staff to enjoy. This marked the fourth year the Wagners purchased a tree at the Festival and returned it to the school that donated it. All the ornaments on the tree were hand made by special education students. Now on display in the school library, the tree...

Tampa, Florida - U.S. Drug Czar John Walters is in Tampa touting local programs aimed at stopping students from using and abusing prescription drugs. Walters is the National Director of Drugs Control Policy. He says many teens and young people believe prescription pills are not as dangerous as street drugs. Tampa Catholic High School has already begun random drug testing. They test a few students every 2 weeks. In Florida, 1 out of every 8 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 report abusing prescription drugs in the past year. Drug related deaths for both oxycodone and hydrocodone...

Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests. Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists. The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence. The findings, published in Current Biology, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives. Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps could not match humans in memory and other mental skills. "There are still many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said...

U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee are the top choices for the 2008 Democratic and Republican nominations for President of the United States, according to the nation's first Presidential "Primary" of voters at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in San Diego. Sponsored by Pearson, more than 700 of the nation's social studies teachers flexed their voting muscles and put the principles they teach about every day into action by casting their votes. Senator Clinton won her party's nod with 41.9% of the vote. Senator Thompson was...

Thanksgiving's coming and you're concerned that your third-grader doesn't know much about the Pilgrims. Join the club. Educators in North Jersey and across the nation say social studies have been given short shrift in today's classrooms -- neglected in the drive to spend more time preparing for math and reading tests mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Just 27 percent of high school seniors were deemed "proficient" in civics and 53 percent had "below basic" knowledge of U.S. history, according to a federal report last year. Anecdotal evidence of a lack of civic knowledge seems to...