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The reasons for choosing home-schooling are as varied as the parents who do it — religious beliefs, a desire to maintain close bonds between parent and child or have greater input in what their child is learning, concerns about the influences on a child in a formal classroom and school setting, or the belief that […]
NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ — The next time you seek an “energy boost” from one of your favorite nutrition bars, think about this fact: a chocolate peanut butter PowerBar Performance bar is packed with 20 grams of sugars (contributing to this are the added sugars high fructose corn syrup with grape and pear juice […]
But Will, who is a passionate baseball fan, is going to have to be charged with an error for his recent commentary [“Public television an obsolete concept,” March 3], saying public television is a relic in today’s 500-channel environment. He misses what is missing today on all other channels.Read the Full Story
A new survey of 1,100 youth – those ages 12 to 17 – and 1,100 of their parents shows that 54% of internet-connected families now use some sort of internet filter or monitoring software, up from 41% of internet-connected families who used filters in 2000, the most recent time the Pew Internet & American Life […]
And, the kids are super at multitasking, able to simultaneously listen to music, use a computer and do homework.Read the Full Story
On the night that he wrote his column, Will could have tuned into his local PBS station for a special report on evolving technologies and treatments for cancer, the most serious health crisis in America. If he thought he could get more intelligent, in-depth programming on one of the cable channel options he listed, his […]
Online education makes it possible for small, dispersed groups to make contact in one virtual space, as is the case when rural high school students enroll in virtual classes whose class size their local school district could not support.Read the Full Story
Commonwealth Day celebrations on Monday 14 March 2005 will have the theme “Education – creating opportunity, realising potential”.Read the Full Story
Online education makes it possible for small, dispersed groups to make contact in one virtual space, as is the case when rural high school students enroll in virtual classes whose class size their local school district could not support. Read the Full Story
In January, Armstrong Williams, a political pundit, was paid $240,000 to endorse the “No Child Left Behind” program. The payoff of Williams became news because he compromised his journalistic integrity and reversed his opinion of the educational program, which he had previously bashed.Read the Full Story
