Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Kids with Stable Personalities are Unaffected with Violent Games

Study finds stable personalities unaffected by violent games

An upcoming study suggests that kids with stable personalities are largely unaffected by violent games, while the response of less stable children depends on primarily on how angry they are going into the game.

***Get Psyched, as Wolfenstein 3D said in the 90s

Kansas Bans Pokemon in Schools

Kansas Board of Education Bans Pokemon

The people in Kansas have banned Pokémon in schools.

Map of Evolutionists and Creationists in US Schools

97 – Where (and How) Evolution Is Taught In the US « strange maps

Elementary School Principal Throws Feces at a Child

Elementary School Principal Admits to Throwing Feces at a Child

Let me get this straight... Child is bad. Teacher is angry. Teacher stops what she is doing. Teacher takes a dump (in her hand?) Child doesn't realize something is going on when teacher shits in her own hand, and decides to hang around. Teacher throws crap at child...

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

The children sell cheaper than buffaloes

Children in India cheaper than buffaloes: report (Reuters)

Homeless children sit along a road outside a temple in New Delhi April 2, 2007. Traffickers are selling children in India for amounts that are often lower than the cost of animals and most of them end up working as laborers or commercial sex workers, activists said on Tuesday. (Tanushree Punwani/Reuters)Reuters - Traffickers are selling children in India for amounts that are often lower than the cost of animals and most of them end up working as laborers or commercial sex workers, activists said on Tuesday.


Top 10 Bar Examinees

Top 10 Bar examinees

MANILA, Philippines -- The following are the top 10 test-takers of the 2006 Bar Examination:

1. Noel Neil Q. Malimban, University of the Cordilleras -- 87.60 %

2. Deborah S. Acosta, University of the Philippines -- 87.40 %

Ricardo M. Pilares III, Ateneo de Manila University -- 87.40 %

3. Erika Ana Andrea C. Jimenez, Ateneo de Manila University -- 86.60 %

4. Maria Charizza B. Carlos, Ateneo de Manila University-- 86.10 %

5. Gina Lyn Rubio, Far Eastern University -- 85.75 %

6. Anjuli Larla A. Tan, Dr V Orestes Romualdez Educational Foundation Inc -- 85.70 %

7. Karen H. Gaviola, University of San Carlos -- 85.68 %

8. Al-shawid L. Ismael, University of Cebu -- 85.65 %

9. Timothy Joseph M. Mendoza, University of the Philippines -- 85.55 %

10. Alain Charles J. Veloso, University of the Philippines -- 85.50 %

Complete list at Inquirer.net

I Shot the Sheriff('s Sign)

Teens busted for shooting sheriff's sign (AP)

AP - Using road signs for target practice is common among vandals in the West, and they don't often get arrested. But you don't want to go shooting up the signs the sheriff's deputies put out.

Education program seeks to instill respect for rule of law

Education program seeks to instill respect for rule of law

MANILA, Philippines -- In an attempt to instill the value of respect for the rule of law, the Department of Education (DepEd), will soon be conducting the second phase of a program called Public Education on the Rule of Law Advancement and Support (PERLAS).

10 million IT-ready teachers in Asia

Intel dreams of 10 million IT-ready teachers in Asia

MANILA, Philippines -- Seven years since Intel started the Intel Teach to the Future program in Asia, the chip giant has already trained more than one million teachers to incorporate computers and the Internet in their instructional system.

La Salle honors Ramon del Rosario Sr

La Salle honors Ramon del Rosario Sr.

The Graduate School of Business of De La Salle Professional Schools will honor La Salle’s oldest living alumni president with the inauguration of the school named after him

Two 8th graders Tried to Poison Teacher

Pair Accused of Trying to Poison Teacher

Two eighth-graders were arrested on charges they tried to poison their science teacher by pouring a fabric freshener into her soda, authorities said Monday.

Teacher Convicted of Bomb Threats

Teacher Convicted of Bomb Threats

A sixth-grade teacher was convicted Monday of making false bomb threats that targeted five students attending the middle school where she taught.

10 year old is questioned by police for calling his schoolfriend "gay"

10 yr old boy is quizzed by police for sending email with word gay in it

A father criticised a police force for launching an investigation after his10-yr-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend “gay” in an email. A Company director said he was astounded after two police officers arrived at his home to speak to his son.The officers were called after a parent complained that George had called her son a"gay boy" in an email

University of Washington shooting

2 shot to death on U. Washington campus (AP)

Several people walk arm-in-arm while being escorted to the scene of where a man and a woman were shot to death Monday morning, April 2, 2007, inside the University of Washington's architecture building in Seattle. University police said the shooting may have been a murder-suicide. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - A University of Washington researcher was shot to death in her office Monday morning by a former boyfriend who then turned the gun on himself, police said.


Monday, April 2, 2007

Meth use receding

Meth use receding in some regions (AP)

Barbara Lehmann, right, president of the Dodge Flower neighborhood association, speaks with Jennifer Webb, left,  during a break in a landlord-tenant crime prevention workshop in Tucson, Ariz., Thursday, March 22, 2007. (AP Photos/John Miller)AP - At one Minneapolis-area high school, the methamphetamine problem got so bad in recent years that staff members sometimes caught students trying to attend class while high.

***Attending classes while high.  Wow.

MIT in China, minus the degree

Link by Link: M.I.T. Education in China, Minus the Degree

A Taiwanese man is distributing free Chinese translations of material from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Web site.

Japan's first online university

Japan's first online university opens classes

TOKYO -- Japan's first online university began classes on Monday, offering degrees to older students in a country whose model of lifetime company jobs is changing.

***I remember we thought about this in a master's class in DLSU.  It's already a reality in Japan.

Sunday, April 1, 2007

13 year old Arrested for Manslaughter

Teen Arrested After Fatal NYC Fight

A 13-year-old boy was charged with manslaughter for allegedly attacking another boy on a school playground who later died of his injuries, police said.

Re-education

Re-education

Can China create schools that foster openness, flexibility and innovation? And what happens to China if it does?

37 years for a student

Student Gets 37 Years in Fatal Fire

A man who admitted setting a house fire that killed a fellow University of Maryland student has been sentenced to 37 1/2 years in prison.