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Twitter Helps Shy Students Take Part in Classroom Discussions Without Saying a Word
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You Won’t Believe What a Group of Parents Did to Get Better Schooling for Their Kids
Parents upset about the education their children are receiving at the Notre-Dame de Caderot school in southern France didn’t merely hold meetings or complain to the school board.
Instead, they stormed the building and took several teachers and the school headmistress hostage.
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Fourth-Grader Suspended for Sexual Harassment After Calling a Teacher ‘Cute’
A 9-year-old North Carolina boy was suspended from school after saying a teacher was “cute” — a remark the school principal called sexual harassment.
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Why Sixth Grade May Be the Most Important Factor for Your Child Graduating High School
The latest numbers show about eight percent of American kids drop out of high school before graduating. Want to keep your kids from becoming a statistic? Then pay attention to how they do in the sixth grade.
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Prestigious Waldorf Private School Keeps Computers Away from Kids
The 160 Waldorf private schools in the United States boast an impressive student body: the children of tech luminaries from firms like eBay, Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.
But what makes Waldorf a seemingly odd choice for such parents is that until kids are in the eighth grade, the school is completely unwired with not a computer screen to be found.
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Bathroom Visits Limited for Some Students at Illinois High School
Students at Evergreen Park High School in Illinois may be well-advised to avoid excessive water intake — or find themselves with longer school days.
Some teachers there have implemented a policy of allowing each student only three bathroom visits during class each semester. Any subsequent visits require students to make up the class time later in the day.
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