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Hey Kids, Stop Asking Me to Do Your Homework
Hey Kids, Stop Asking
Me to Do Your Homework
MEGHAN DAUM
Apr 21, 2011 12:42 PM CDT

Hey Kids, Stop Asking Me to Do Your Homework

Meghan Daum is sick of 'entitled' children who don't think for themselves

(Newser) - Not surprisingly, Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum gets quite a few emails. But perhaps more infuriating than the ones "telling me I'm a moron and the reason print media is dying" are the ones asking her to do some kid's homework. "Not a week goes...

Relax: America's Never Been Tops at Math

US scores have actually been improving

(Newser) - There’s been a lot of talk lately about American math scores falling behind the rest of the world—a December assessment of standardized tests put China at No. 1, and the US at No. 31—but that’s actually a myth, Good reports. The fact is that the US...

Teacher Accused of Sex With 5 Students in 5 Months

Stacy Schuler taught gym in Ohio

(Newser) - Another tale of teacher-student sex, with a twist: The teacher in question is accused of sleeping with five students over a period of five months. Stacy Schuler, 32, taught health and physical education at Ohio’s Mason High School, and also worked as an athletic trainer for the school sports...

Tree Octopus Suckers Students
'Tree Octopus' Hoax Shows Kids Believe Anything Online
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Feb 6, 2011 7:28 AM CST

'Tree Octopus' Hoax Shows Kids Believe Anything Online

Students believe everything they read online, warns researcher

(Newser) - Today's students have a worrying habit of believing everything they read on the Internet, according to a researcher who found it easy to trick young people into believing that endangered "tree octopuses" live in the Pacific Northwest. Students directed to a phony website highlighting the creature's plight continued to...

Freshmen More Stressed Than Ever
 Freshmen 
 More Stressed 
 Than Ever 
survey says
Jan 27, 2011 8:04 AM CST

Freshmen More Stressed Than Ever

First-year college students report low emotional health

(Newser) - College freshmen might not be learning much —but that doesn’t mean they’re not stressed. The levels of emotional health in incoming freshmen hit a record low last year, probably thanks in part to the recession. According to an annual survey, students who rated themselves as having “...

China School Bans Boys, Girls From Getting Too Close

That translates to 20 inches

(Newser) - A school in the Chinese city of Chengdu has a new code of conduct for students that forbids teens of the opposite sex from getting within 20 inches of each other, reports the Telegraph . Those who disobey will get a warning the first time and face expulsion for repeat offenses....

Kids Don't Learn Much in First 2 Years of College

They're more interested in socializing, surprise, surprise

(Newser) - Yet another reason to skip college : You probably won’t learn all that much anyway. A new book reveals that almost half of the undergrads in America learn basically nothing during their first two years, USA Today reports. Even after four years, 36% of students had made few significant gains...

Virginia May Ban Teachers From 'Friending' Students

But some teachers worry it will halt new forms of teaching

(Newser) - Teachers Facebooking students: Usually not a good idea . And soon, in Virginia, it may not be allowed. The state's Board of Education is voting on a policy this week that would restrict teacher-student interaction via social networks, online games, and text messages, unless such interaction is through a platform provided...

Girls Arrested for Planning 'Attack a Teacher Day'

And planning it on Facebook, no less

(Newser) - Not a good idea: Inviting 100 of your friends to an event—planned on Facebook!—called “Attack a Teacher Day.” The student hosting the ill-advised event and five others who posted threats to teachers on the Facebook page were arrested last week and, not surprisingly, also suspended...

Immigrant DREAM Act Fails in Senate
Immigrant DREAM Act
Fails in Senate
Dec 18, 2010 10:38 AM CST

Immigrant DREAM Act Fails in Senate

Bill would have granted legal status to illegal immigrant students

(Newser) - Despite an intense campaign by Latino leaders and President Obama, the DREAM Act has fizzled in the Senate. The measure to give illegal immigrant students a path to citizenship fell five votes short of the necessary 60 votes to stave off a GOP filibuster, reports AP . Opponents generally said it...

Oregon Students Can Use Spell Check on Writing Tests

Educators want to take emphasis off typos

(Newser) - Grist for curmudgeons: Oregon students will be able to use spell check on state writing tests next year, reports the Oregonian . The new rule applies only to middle-schoolers and high school students, not to younger kids still presumably mastering the fundamentals. "We are not letting a student's keyboarding skills...

Look Out Teachers' Unions, Here Come Parents' Unions

California group trying to force school to become charter

(Newser) - Two dispatches from the education front, both speaking to underperforming students and angry parents:
  • In Compton, California: Parents are trying to take advantage of a new state law to force their chronically awful school to be taken over by a charter operation. Advocates easily got the necessary 51% support of
...

In Standardized Tests, Shanghai Kids Kick World's Butt

Shanghai ranks at the top in all three areas

(Newser) - China is emerging as a world powerhouse, and that extends into the classroom. Shanghai teenagers outscored their peers around the world on the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey, and Hong Kong also ranked high in all three areas: second in math and science, fourth in reading. This...

Oakland Schoolkids Sent to 'Panhandle' Daily

Students parked on streets to raise $175 a day

(Newser) - Kids from a private religious school in Oakland are parked on San Francisco streets up to 4 hours daily to "panhandle," a local investigation has found. Students boast they make up to $175 a day selling snacks for the St. Andrew Private School, which is run out of...

French Kids Strike Over Vacation Cut

All good fun, but the cut doesn't exist

(Newser) - French schoolkids are saying "non" to a shortened summer, with young people nationwide joining wildcat strikes and staging walk-outs to denounce plans to cut a month of vacation time. Which is all very French, notes the Independent , except that the plan doesn't exist—the education minister merely called for...

For Healthier School Lunches, Move Salad Bar

A shift of 4 feet leads to huge results at one school

(Newser) - If educators want kids to eat more veggies at school, they might start with one deceptively easy solution: moving the salad bar. One middle school in New York did so to a more prominent spot and saw a huge increase—as in 250% to 300%—in the consumption of salad...

Texas Textbooks Getting Conservative Flavor

Board revising standards over objection of minorities

(Newser) - The Texas Board of Education has decreed that future curriculum standards will have a more conservative bent. The board's 10 right-leaning members say they're simply "adding balance" to left-leaning academia. The five minority members say they're whitewashing history. Among the changes, expected to formalized in May, as rounded up...

Teacher Tackles Gunman in Student Attack

2 shot before math instructor leaps on shooter

(Newser) - A gutsy math teacher tackled a gunman as he reloaded his high-powered assault rifle to fire on another student in an attack on a Colorado middle school yesterday. Two teens already lay wounded outside the suburban Denver school when David Benke jumped the shooter. "He was trying to rack...

Girls Learn Math Anxiety From Female Teachers

Instructors transfer bias to students

(Newser) - Girls who buy into the stereotype that boys are better at math may be learning the trait from their own female teachers. Female first-and second-grade teachers worried about their math skills transfer that anxiety onto girls in their classrooms, a new study suggests. Those teachers were more likely to believe...

Iranians Don Scarves in Protest

What a drag! Activists turn tables on officials

(Newser) - Hundreds of Iranian men are donning headscarves in Facebook photos to turn the tables on authorities who tried to humiliate a student activist by distributing photos apparently showing him in a scarf and chador as he tried to escape police. Members of the "Be a Man" campaign wear colorful...

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