March 20, 2012 Today is the day! It's the Vernal Equinox, better known as the first day of Spring. What does that mean? Wikipedia defines it as "the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator." But to the
It’s happened to everyone — you text your husband or wife, “I love you with every fiber of my being,” but your phone actually sends, “I love you with every fiber of malaysia.” Most of the time it’s funny, but one person experienced the worst case of autocorrect ever. So bad, in fact, that it prompted a school-wide lockdown.
A substitute teacher in the Bronx faces some serious criminal charges for administering some playground justice on one of his pupils.
It may be hard to believe considering she’s one of the most famous girls on the planet right now, but Selena Gomez wasn’t always so popular. The ‘Who Says’ singer revealed that when she was in school, she wasn’t confident at all — and that she thinks the only reason she wasn’t bullied is because her cousin was a cheerleader and protected her!
Teen truancy is a real problem for a lot of schools, but especially so for the Dohn Community High School in Cincinnati. It only has a 14% graduation rate and has been deemed an “academic emergency” by the state of Ohio.
So the school is trying out a novel approach: it’s paying students to show up and behave themselves.
February 13, 2012 I'm obsessed with the PS22 Chorus.
Their teacher is amazing. He is a perfect example of how teaching kids should be done. Not one of these kids looks bored, or looks like they're faking it. Which wasn't the case when I was in elementary school! I have a feeling that some of his students will someday impact the world
January 17, 2012 Some schools are now spying on overweight students by making them wear a monitoring bracelet.
According to an article from the New York Post, the school district in Bay Shore, New York ordered 10 of the monitors for use starting this spring. The devices are worn on the wrists and count heartbeats, detect motion. They even track students' sleeping habits.
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September 30, 2011 Bravo to the school district in Kansas City for thinking outside the box, to help prevent bullying in school.
August 24, 2011 It's that time of year again!
As parents, we both breathe a sigh of relief and tear up realizing our babies are growing up way too fast.
Here are some safety tips to help prepare for the upcoming year. Now, I realize most of these are common sense, and chances are you've already followed a few of these. But as the kids in school know, it's always good to get a refresher course. (Unless you have to pay for it!)
August 9, 2011 For every generation, there will most likely be something that we as parents can blame for the decline in school performance. My generation can blame the video game boom. (It all started with my Atari
Pop another keg in Athens, Ohio because Ohio University has been named the top party school in the nation by a student survey in the Princeton Review’s annual ‘Best Colleges’ edition.
July 28, 2011 It's back to school time and you can't go back with the same lame stuff that everyone else will have, be unique with your back to school selection this year. I took 5 of the most popular back to school items and went shopping all around Duluth to find the most unique items I could, here are my top 5 and where to find them.
