Tweet A woman traveling on New York’s Metro North train line was recorded by a fellow passenger ranting to train employees that she is too “well-educated” to be told to quiet down and not use profanity in her cell-phone conversation. “Do you know what schools I’ve been to? How well-educated I am?” she asks the [...]
Tweet The blogosphere lit up this week after complaints from students who took the SAT exam last weekend were distraught and confused thanks to an essay question about– reality TV. Some of the students felt that the question wasn’t fair since they weren’t familiar with reality TV or watched very little TV to being with. [...]
This stance has resulted in a suspension from her job as a Pennsylvania high school English teacher. Natalie liked to blow off steam by blogging about how her students at Central Bucks East High School were “lazy,” “frightfully dim” and “rat-like.” For almost a year and a half, Munroe had blogged quietly about muffins, Food Network stars, her favorite movies and her job. And then someone at school found out and all hell broke loose.
Tweet Less than a year after erasing the impact of Thomas Jefferson’s political ideas from the state’s textbooks, Texas conservatives suddenly have a hard on for Thomas Jefferson. Last March, the Texas Board of Education decided to toss out and demphasize pesky references to The Enlightenment and the revolutionary ideas it spawned. They decided to [...]
Tweet So last week was Banned Books Week and the Christian Science Monitor took time out to point to five books that strangely haven’t been banned. That’s right these books are somehow less offensive than Lolita, Catcher In The Rye, or Harry Potter: “Mein Kampf,” by Adolf Hitler The dictator’s famous manifesto contained such offensive [...]
Tweet I really need someone to convince me that Florida is not the root of all evil. OK maybe that’s a bit strong, but the evidence over the past few years does show that the state isn’t helping matters any. There was the butterfly ballot from the 2000 election, schoolteachers looking to do more than [...]
Tweet Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. It was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly [...]
Tweet Benedict Garrett, 30, is a sex education teacher in England who knows more about the Birds and the Bees than most. Until recently he was moonlighting as a hardcore porn star. Garrett owned up to his secret life after students discovered he was already a stripper called Johnny Anglais who plugs his steamy routine [...]
Tweet I know this story has been out for a few weeks but, in light of Catholic Church abuse scandal this new revelation in the Lower Merion School School District Webcam-spying case is just creepy. Here’s the short version, Lower Merion School District, based in Ardmore, PA issued laptops to its students last fall. Seeing [...]
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