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Home school families lead the way

I have a friend who’s an independent contractor at a local school. Over Christmas dinner, he was telling us horror stories of what goes on, there. “I had to tell a bunch of them, ‘Watch your language! There are contractors (...)

28 Dec. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Health

France steps up H1N1 vaccination campaign

A large proportion of a still sceptical French public will decide for itself this week whether to be inoculated against "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called here) as the government’s vaccination campaign (...)

10 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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How Far Does A School’s Authority Extend ?

This is an interesting case. A group of 10th grade girls are suing their school after being punished for posting some racy slumber party pictures of themselves on MySpace. The punishment included exclusion from extra-curricular school activities, an (...)

3 nov. 2009 | | Rob Port

Society

17 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Local News

Exam woes for French high school student

It’s that time of year again; the one many of us probably remember with somewhat less fondness than other childhood events - end of school, examinations and the results. Here in France around 331,000 students have been taking their baccalauréat, (...)

30 Jun. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Society

Bogus “American Schools” in Egypt

Owned in majority by some hot shot Egyptian Businessmen and women, they promise Western education , brag about their certification by CITA, and once you ate the bait .. you’re stuck. My daughter is sixteen. She is in grade ten at one of those elite (...)

4 May. 2009 | | Egyptian Mom

Media

Education : where copyrighters and publishers are the pirates

There has been a lot of buzz around both the guilty verdict and now the judge’s alleged conflict of interest in the trial of the Pirate’s Bay operators. For those not in the now The Pirate’s Bay is a search engine - like Google - that (...)

29 avr. 2009 | | David Eaves

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Don’t you judge anyone too quickly!

AGAINST ALL ODDS Against all odds because Susan Boyle was starved of oxygen at birth, which left her with learning difficulties. Three in 1,000 babies in the United Kingdom still either die or become severely brain-damaged at birth, by the lack of oxygen (...)

20 Apr. 2009 | | J.N. PAQUET

Politics

Obama wants to make U.S. Education "envy of the world"

U.S. president also urges parents to get more involved in their children’s education.

11 Mar. 2009 | | Chris Hugo

Science & Tech

Oops! It’s back!

They’ve got hard evidence of it now. From a practical standpoint, what this means is that the full impact of early childhood intervention with stimulation has a knock-on effect with the next generation. It also offers the first reasonable (...)

16 Feb. 2009 | | Forrest Higgs

Society

The Law School Gamble

I’ve often wondered how sound of an investment it is for me to be attending Law School. Apparently, there is much more risk involved than there used to be : The two disillusioned attorneys were victims of an unfolding education hoax on the middle (...)

30 jan. 2009 | | Michael German

Society

Immigration and Early Education

I’m going to do a bunch of posts about Finland over the course of this trip that won’t necessarily be conclusion-driven. The basic spirit is that (a) it’ll be content, (b) it’ll be a useful exercise for me to just try to summarize (...)

10 déc. 2008 | | Matthew Yglesias

Society

Newspaper Report On Skyrocketing Tuition Fails to Notice the Problem is Caused by Overspending

The International Herald Tribune is oh so concerned that tuition is rising so fast that it soon will be unaffordable to many. The rising cost of college - even before the recession - threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, (...)

4 déc. 2008 | | Rob Port

Society

Behind Bad Kids Are Usually Bad Parents

Older generations are fond of starting complaints about younger generations with statements like “These kids these days.” You hear it all the time. So much, in fact, that it’s become cliche. But the truth behind those statements is that (...)

18 jui. 2008 | 1 comment | Rob Port

Society

The School System

It is becoming a daily activity for teachers to send students to the main office or have to call security because of unruly behaviors in their classroom. Respect of teachers as one’s elders, those entrusted with one’s schooling within school, (...)

5 Jun. 2008 | | Bakoh

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Are We Dumbing ?

Clive Crook writes about "the dumbing of America" : For the first time in decades, and probably ever, workers retiring from the US labor force will be better-educated on average (according to one measure anyway) than their much younger (...)

3 avr. 2008 | 1 comment | Matthew Yglesias

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Alberta Election: What Albertans really, really want

The Spice Girls are about to finish their last world tour, but in Alberta, the “Spice Spirit” is very much alive. Leading up to the provincial election on March 3, Albertans have articulated what they really, really want from their future (...)

29 Feb. 2008 | 1 comment | Werner Patels

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The Needed Shift to Altruistic Social Values

It is not by chance that we have been created as social beings. If we look deep into our behavior, we will find that every action we take is intended to bring us society’s appreciation. This is what sustains us, and its absence or, worse, the (...)

18 Feb. 2008 | 2 comments | Bnei Baruch

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Is a stronger federalism the answer for Canada?

Is the answer to Canada’s continued issues surrounding the distribution of power *and money* and the relationship between the provinces and the government in Ottawa a stronger federalism, where the competencies in education, immigration, and health (...)

4 Feb. 2008 | | AllPeopleUnite

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Ontario’s new Jim Crow laws

The hot issue in Ontario’s last provincial election was the Conservatives’ plan to provide public funding not only for non-denominational public schools and Catholic schools but also to all variety of faith-based schools. This created an (...)

1 Feb. 2008 | | Werner Patels

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All governments big and small

Since the Conservatives took power in Ottawa in January 2006 there has been an ongoing debate about how conservative the federal government really is. Government spending has ballooned under the Conservative government, and despite some tax cuts, many (...)

10 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

We should always be wary of "studies" advocating massive changes in public policy. There is often much less to them than there appears. A few weeks ago I ran across a little article on the New York Times website entitled, In Gaps in School, Weighing (...)

2 Jan. 2008 | | Forrest Higgs

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A simple theory of liberal arts education

At the margin, that is. Information in the modern world is virtually free, and well-defined tasks can be outsourced very cheaply, if need be. Don’t specialize in those. Bias is everywhere, and overcoming bias yields great gains. Empirically, our (...)

18 déc. 2007 | | Marginal Revolution

Health

Malnutrition makes you less educated

In Indonesia, more than 30% of children under the age of 5 years suffer from chronic malnourishment. The long-term consequences of childhood malnutrition are well established in the literature. Yet, little is known about the extent to which these children (...)

12 déc. 2007 | | Rasyad A. Parinduri

Society

The Commanding Heights

Australian bloggers Andrew Norton and Andrew Leigh will debate public education in a series of posts. Judging by Andrew Norton’s first missive it will be a good debate. People are used to the idea of state schools, so they don’t think about (...)

4 déc. 2007 | | Marginal Revolution

Local News

Where Does It Say North Dakota State Has To Pay Seventy Percent of the Cost of Education ?

One of the things the big spenders in the state have been claiming for a while is that the state’s supposed to pay 70% of the cost of basic education. Now a Fargo City Commissioner has claimed it’s written in the North Dakota Century Code : (...)

5 sep. 2007 | | Rob Port

Society

Finnish first secretary and German cultural attache at the opening of a collaborative photo exhibit by Palestinian and Israeli children in Tel Aviv

Last Thursday, Anu Pulkkinen from the embassy of Finland and Martin Schroeter from the German embassy, together with Muslim and Jewish educators, artists and curators came to the opening of a photo exhibit of a collaborative work of middle school pupils (...)

27 Aug. 2007 | | jakob klimrod

Business

The not-so-secret history of the Great Depression

When I teach macroeconomics I feel that it’s imperative to spend a little time discussing the Great Depression. The popular myth that an unfettered capitalist system generated stock volatility that led directly to mass unemployment is pervasive and (...)

3 aoû. 2007 | 2 comments | The Filter^

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