Speaker Touts Stripping to 8th Graders
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The principal of a Palo Alto middle school may not invite a popular speaker back to an annual career day after he told girls they could earn a good living as strippers.
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By Joy Campbell, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 7--So far, Sidney Board, 14, knows how to get on the Internet, and she likes making slide shows on a computer. That pretty well sums up her computer knowledge.   But that's about to change.
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By Rupa Shenoy  rshenoy@@dailyherald.com  It's a question that defeats many an adult: How can one person make a difference?  But when a sixth grade elementary class from West Chicago tackled the question, the students came up with a nationally award- winning answer.
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A controversy has erupted after a New Jersey high school teacher expressed his religious beliefs in class, and a student taped it.
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Lance Knobel: "I'd install FlickrFan in every middle school and high school social studies class. I guarantee it would provoke endless discussion and ensure engagement in the issues of the day." I totally agree. It would be great to see it at checkout lines in supermarkets and on kiosks in BART stations too.
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A party that asked students to come dressed "politically incorrect" has prompted an investigation by Macalester College officials who learned one student was costumed as a Ku Klux Klan member and another wore blackface with a noose around his neck.
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By Charlie Boss, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 24--Mornings at the school sound of water splashing on soapy hair, onions sizzling on a skillet and computers humming.
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LOL:) Look who&#039;s podcasting! No, it&#039;s not your teenager. It&#039;s your senator.
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WASHINGTON _ Young people can make a difference in politics, Sen.
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Move over, Tupperware. A new wave of parties is about waste-free school lunches and energy-efficient laundry.
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LYLE, Minn. - What seems to be a high school prank gone terribly wrong is getting no laughs from authorities. Collin Wayne Orth, a Lyle High School student, allegedly laced brownies with laxatives and served them to several students and school staff on Feb. 6.
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Pupils will have to master their times tables by the age of eight, the government says.
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By PETE SHERMAN STAFF WRITER  For about an hour after the end of every school day, Michael Lanier, a sophomore at Springfield High School, works on the SHS Web site, tweaking and updating its features with computer programs called Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
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By Tara M. Manthey, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 23--Erica Palmer imagined she was making a presentation to her grandmother, not the governor.   The sixth-grader held that picture in her head as she explained Spanaway Elementary School's gardening project to Gov.
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Media & professional: When young teachers are promoted it can cause war in the staffroom. Louise Tickle on peacekeeping efforts.
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Education experts say children should be allowed to talk more in class.
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MILWAUKEE -- Fifth-grade teacher Amy Tromp lights a match and then the small pile of sage she holds in a shell. The sage begins to smolder, its smell stinging the nose.