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Significantly, said those who have been briefed, the White House wants to change federal financing formulas so that a portion of the money is awarded based on academic progress, rather than by formulas that apportion money to districts according to their numbers of students, especially poor students. The well-worn formulas for distributing tens of billions of [...]

What I finally took away is the reaffirmation of a simple truth. Technology is neither good nor bad. It’s an ever-evolving set of tools that can be used and misused. While “Digital Nation” raises questions about the future of today's youth, it also provides answers that are at least somewhat reassuring.

After watching it, some will walk [...]

Even in United States the society is in practice wholly based on the rational principles of governing a society, even if the irrational religious forces seem to be more powerful there than in practice any other developed nation in the world. This situation is however well explained by the fact that hand does often in real [...]

The student, only identified as Jacob, claimed to have been harassed for years because he is effeminate. He'd been pushed down the stairs and threatened at knife point. A teacher allegedly told Jacob to “hate himself every day until he changed.” Eventually, he switched schools and, with the help of the New York Civil Liberties [...]

Although no other researchers have produced evidence to back up this association, Dr Wakefield and his supporters are unwilling to accept that they might have been wrong. The publication of the research in The Lancet, a journal of great repute, added credibility to their findings, just as the refusal of the Blair family to say whether [...]