MIT to offer labs, certificates to virtual students

2011-12-18T21:30:36Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing technology that will allow students taking courses online to use simulated labs, interact with professors and other students, and earn certificates.

"The driver is to reach everyone out there who can'...

Afghanistan denies deal with Taliban over schools

2011-12-17T12:30:32Z

The Afghan government on Saturday denied making a deal with the Taliban agreeing a more conservative curriculum and more mullahs as teachers in return for an end to attacks on schools.

Responding to a report released by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), the Afghan ministry of education said it would not cut any deal which could jeopardise the school system.

The AA...

Philippine men bare all to save the earth

2011-12-16T01:30:07Z

MANILA (Reuters) - Dozens of men ran naked on Friday around a university campus in the Philippine capital, Manila, calling for cleaner rivers and greater efforts to save the earth.

In what has become an annual tradition at the University of the...

US teen cigarette, alcohol use falls: survey

2011-12-14T16:30:50Z

Cigarette and alcohol use by US teenagers are at their lowest point since the mid-1970s, but marijuana use remains steady, according to the findings of a national survey released Wednesday.

Some 18.7 percent of grade 12 high school students, typically aged 17 or 18, reported smoking cigarettes in the latest Monitoring the Future, well down from a peak of 36.5 percent in 1997.

Among eighth-grade pupils, the proportion o...

Kids won't eat veggies? Try rewards, a study says

2011-12-13T19:00:08Z

(Reuters) - If your preschoolers turn up their noses at carrots or celery, a small reward like a sticker for taking even a taste may help get them to eat previously shunned foods, a U.K. study said.

Though it might seem obvious that a reward could tempt young children to eat their vegetables, the idea is actually controversial, researchers wrote in the Reuters Health) - If your preschooler turns her nose up at vegetables, giving her a small reward for taking even a taste might help, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that when parents gave their 3- and 4-year-olds a sticker each time they took a "tiny taste" of a disliked vegetable, it gradually changed the preschoolers' attitude.

After a couple weeks, kids rewarded wi...

Elected regent has no business working on CSN theft case

2011-12-13T02:30:47Z

Let me paint a scenario: Let's say an employee of your company is accused of embezzling company money.

Would it be appropriate for a member of the board of directors to work on behalf of the employee's defense team?

Would that sound bizarre to you? It certainly does to me, but that's exactly what's happened with the Nevada System of Higher Education, which is governed by the elected Boa...

Two people killed in Virginia Tech shooting

2011-12-08T11:00:39Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two people were killed in a shooting at the Virginia Tech campus on Thursday, a university spokesman said.

Police were apprehending one person, the Collegiate Times newspaper said, before issuing another

Illinois study cites cost of high school dropouts

2011-12-06T22:30:07Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - High school dropouts on average receive $1,500 a year more from government than they pay in taxes because they are more likely to get benefits or to be in prison, according to a U.S. study released on Wednesday.

"Dropping out of high school before receiving a high school diploma places a substantial fiscal burden ...

S.Africa ponders sex education for 10-year-olds

2011-12-05T14:30:46Z

Children as young as 10 could be taught about safe sex in South African schools as the country battles to contain pre-teen pregnancy and HIV infection, the department of health said on Monday.

Health and education officials are scratching their heads over when kids are old enough to hear about the birds and the bees in an education plan due next year.

"Is 10 too early or too late? We want to start as early as possible," ...

Oklahoma teacher who photographed kids in lingerie arrested

2011-12-01T15:00:24Z

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A third-grade teacher who resigned this week after parents accused her of dressing their daughters in lingerie and photographing them at a Christmas party was arrested on Thursday.

Kimberly Crain, 47, was arrested at her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and will face charges of manufacture of child pornography a...

Poor schools don't get "fair share": Education Department

2011-11-30T15:00:24Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many poor public schools do not pay teachers and educators as much as wealthier schools just a few miles away, according to a survey of 13,000 school districts the U.S. Department of Education released on Wednesday.

The department found that more than 40 percent of scho...

More Minnesota school districts to borrow: survey

2011-11-30T14:00:14Z

(Reuters) - More Minnesota school districts will borrow for cash-flow purposes in the current school year after the state delayed a chunk of education aid payments, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

The St. Paul-based Association of Metropolitan School Dist...

TOYOTA: COMMUNITY: 20 Years of Supporting Family Literacy (NCFL)

2011-11-29T10:00:37Z

TOYOTA: COMMUNITY: 20 Years of Supporting Family Literacy (NCFL)

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Readers Weigh In

2011-11-29T02:30:16Z

What parents who teach their own children want you to know

A version of this story was posted at lasvegasweekly.com on Oct. 20. Here is a sampling of comments from our readers:

Doubting grandparents will be won over by the love and dedication home-school parents give to their children. My mom, a public school teacher, lectured me when the oldest was going into first grade. We asked her to give us two years and then check back with us if she was still conce...

Relatives hail pending release of 3 US students

2011-11-24T17:30:35Z

Relatives and university officials welcomed Thursday an Egyptian court's order to release of three American students arrested during protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Georgetown University student Derrik Sweeney, 19, was attending the Radio host Rush Limbaugh has blamed gay acceptance for 15-year-old gay teen Lawrence King's murder

Radio host Rush Limbaugh has blamed gay acceptance for 15-year-old gay teen Lawrence King's murder, Equality Matters reported.

17-year-old Reuters) - A small public school district in Missouri said on Wednesday it will stop offering voluntary single-gender classes after it came under pressure from a civil liberties group that opposes them.

The Adrian R-III District became the latest school system to bow to pressure from the Program helping plan best routes for walking and biking to school

On a recent morning before school, a parent volunteer watched as a car door flew open, blocking the sidewalk directly in the path of a student on a bike who was barely able to avoid flying into it.

Other teachers, administrators and volunteers have similar stories, amounting to hundreds of close calls around schools in the chaotic 20 minutes before and after classes each day. Sometimes they're...

Metro Police hope cracking down on truants puts a dent in crime

2011-11-23T02:30:56Z

Goal is to hold parents, students accountable

¶It didn't take much detective work for Metro Police to figure out who was behind an increase in daytime home burglaries in Enterprise.
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The prime suspects: kids — who should have been in school.
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"The property that was getting taken was a lot of small items, like laptops and cellphones — things that kids could probably put in their backpacks and conceal and walk down the s...

After changes, Chaparral student leaders pleased with direction of their school

2011-11-23T02:30:54Z

Talk with Chaparral High School students and many will tell you that they loved the school's former principal, Kevin McPartlin. He was friendly and charismatic. So many students were upset when they learned in March that McPartlin would be transferred to another school as part of a staffing overhaul that saw half of Chaparral's faculty and support staff moved elsewhere within the Clark County School District

Bomb attack on Pakistan school kills policeman

2011-11-22T04:30:20Z

A bomb attack on a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed a policeman, wounded eight others and destroyed a wall, police said.

The remote-controlled bomb was planted at the outer wall of the government-run middle school in the outskirts of Mardan town in troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders

Nevada's number of international students falls

2011-11-18T02:30:19Z

The decline bucks a nationwide trend fueled by Chinese students

The number of international students in Nevada has declined slightly even as national enrollment figures rose to a record high, according to a federal report released Monday.Nevada hosted 2,795 international students during the 2010-11 academic year, which represents a 2.7 percent decline from the previous school year.

A little more than half of those ...

'Weightless' US teachers eye giant science leap

2011-11-17T07:30:38Z

"Excited," "nervous," "terrified" -- just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally.

The 30 classroom professionals donned blue "astronaut" jumpsuits to defy gravity in the skies above California, in a project designed to help them capture the imagination of young scie...

Valley needs a medical school

2011-11-17T02:30:49Z

Build a medical school.

There's a lot to chew on in a 178-page report presented to the Economic Development Board on Monday, but that one stood out to me for its short- and long-term benefits.

The report, prepared by researchers with the Brookings Institution and SRI International,Êis a "sector analy...

Outcry after China road accident kills 18 children

2011-11-16T05:30:19Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - Eighteen nursery school children were killed when a coal truck slammed into their "drastically" overcrowded school van in northwest China on Thursday, local media reported, prompting an outcry about the country's deadly roads.

The collision on a rural road in Zhengning County,

NY state school cuts hit poor pupils most: report

2011-11-15T15:30:45Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's budget cuts are taking a financial toll on poor schools that is more than three times the hit felt by the wealthiest districts, a non-profit education group said in report on Tuesday.

The cuts are costing poor schools $843 per pupil, compared with a hit of $269 in the wealthiest districts, the

NY gov's school cuts hit poor pupils hardest: report

2011-11-15T14:00:13Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Budget cuts cost New York's poor schools $843 per pupil, over three times the $269 hit taken by the wealthiest districts, a report said on Tuesday, blasting the governor for the unequal results.

Like many states, New York uses complicated formulas to dole out school aid around the state.

To help close a $10 billion bu...

Gay Teen Zach Asked To Tone It Down After Beating

2011-11-15T08:31:05Z

Zach Huston, the gay teen whose beating was caught on video, says school officials asked him to tone it down after the incident

Zach Huston, the 15-year-old Ohio gay teen whose beating was caught on video and posted on Facebook, says school officials asked him to tone it down after the incident.

The video, captured by another student with a cell phon...

China leads surge in foreign students: US report

2011-11-14T18:30:39Z

America's colleges and universities are seeing record numbers of foreign students, thanks to a surge from China and heavy enrollment from elsewhere in Asia, a report released Monday said.

The report by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Estee Lauder Companies into a global cosmetics giant, has died at the age of 75, the company announced.

The New York firm said Evelyn Lauder, who also helped created the "pink ribbon" symbolizing the battle against breast cancer, died Saturday at the age of 75 from co...

New Trend Caps College Costs at

2011-11-10T11:30:25Z

Some schools won’t charge extra if you need more than four years.

Attention, parents of future college students: A number of colleges across the country (currently about 15) are offering four-year degree guarantees. You don’t pay if your kid’s education spills over into extra semesters.

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District trying to quell bullying Watch reporter Marie Mortera's reports on bullying during the 4 and 6 p.m.newscaststoday on KSNV Channel 3.

2011-11-10T02:30:16Z

Metro Police officer Richard Burris is sparing no sympathy for the seventh-graders packed inside a Bailey Middle School classroom.

Days earlier, Burris had inconspicuously watched afternoon dismissal at the school. And he wasn't happy with what he saw: Kicking. Backpack-snatching. Paperwork-smacking.

The scene is repeated daily at valley schools. Bullies prey on victims during the day, and it continues at night through technology.

"It has gotten to the poin...

Pakistan schools cast minorities in bad light: study

2011-11-09T19:30:55Z

Public schools and madrassas in Pakistan fuel discrimination by casting Hindus and other minorities in a negative light, an American report into the Muslim nation's education system said Wednesday.

Produced by an independent US government commission, the report into Pakistani textbooks and teaching practices also found that 80 percent of public school teachers viewed non-Muslims as "enemies of Islam" in one way or another.

"This...

Mountain boarding school gives hope to Moroccan girls

2011-11-09T14:30:34Z

In the heart of the snowbound Atlas mountains in central Morocco, a boarding school takes in young girls from isolated villages in a bid to fight poverty and illiteracy.

There are more than 300 such schools in Morocco, with another 30 planned for construction next year. They are now both home and class to almost 16,700 girls, who are often living far from their families. More than 70 percent of them come from a rural background, accordi...

Kids of depressed dads have more behavior problems

2011-11-08T14:30:21Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids with depressed dads are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than those whose fathers don't have the blues, according to a new study of more than 20,000 families.

"We've known for a long time that depression in mothers is associated with increased risk in kids -- I don't think there's any doubt about that. It's been less clear in fathers," sa...

Idaho requires two online courses for high school graduation

2011-11-04T04:00:48Z

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Idaho became on Thursday the first U.S. state to require two online courses for high school graduation when state officials approved the requirement.

The requirement, which goes into effect next year, was part of an overhaul of public education pushed by Tom Luna, the state's schools chief, and approved this yea...

Higher education's weaknesses are UNLV's opportunities To read more columns by J. Patrick Coolican visit us online at lasvegassun.com/coolican.

2011-11-02T02:30:08Z

College isn't worth it. That was the message from a Pew Research Center study this year that reported 57 percent of Americans think the higher education system doesn't give students a good value for the thousands of dollars in tuition and expenses they spend. Seventy-five percent said college is too expensive, and two-thirds of respondents who didn't continue their education beyond high school cited financ...

Proposed tax hikes headed for defeat in Colorado

2011-11-01T21:00:19Z

DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado ballot proposal to raise state income and sales taxes for the sake of public schools was headed for defeat on Tuesday, according to early election returns from the state's most populous counties.

The outcome of Proposition 103, aimed at generating $2.9 billion over the next five years, was being watched closely as ...

"Freshman 15" weight gain is a myth, new study finds

2011-11-01T10:30:18Z

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The idea that college freshmen gain an average of 15 pounds in their first year of school is a myth -- the average is really between 2.4 pounds for women and 3.4 pounds for men, the co-author of a new study said Tuesday.

"Not only is there not a 'Freshman 15,' there doesn't appear to be even a 'college 15' ...

U.S. students struggle to boost reading test scores: report

2011-11-01T08:30:31Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hawaii was the only state in the nation where students boosted scores in both math and reading at fourth and eighth grade levels over the last two years, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Math tests showed steady improvements in the last few years and major gains over the last two decades while reading scores remained mostly unchanged, according to th...

Essay winner gets to take classmates to see ÔLion King'

2011-11-01T02:30:24Z

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It might have been the coolest school assembly this year — and it was just to announce an even better experience to come.

It was a group of lions — well, human actors who play lions and other animals — that invaded Walter Long Elementary, home of the Leopards.

They came Tuesday to announce that all the students and teachers at the school are going to see...

Three Albuquerque schools locked down due to SWAT situation

2011-10-31T14:30:18Z

(Reuters) - Three Albuquerque schools were under lockdown or were restricting student movements on Monday afternoon "due to a SWAT situation in the area," the Albuquerque Public Schools website said.

Garfield Middle School was on lockdown and Valley High School and Griegos Elementary School were under "shelter-in-place," whic...

Search for man in shootout with South Carolina police

2011-10-28T17:30:05Z

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Police were still looking late on Friday for a man who fled after a shootout with police, prompting a six-hour manhunt and the lockdown of seven schools in Greenville, South Carolina.

Children held in fou...

School Board Shooting

2010-12-23T08:01:38Z

In this image taken from video released by WJHG-TV on Dec. 15, 2010, Ginger Littleton, right, sneaks up behind Clay Duke before hitting him with her purse, while he holds Bay City school board members hostage in Panama City, Fla. The purse that Littleton

Parenting Santa Terror

2010-12-15T13:02:02Z

This Dec. 14, 2006 photo courtesy of Tony Harrison shows Harrison's daughter Halle Harrison, 2, sitting for a photograph with a man portraying Santa Claus at a preschool Christmas function in Nampa,

Netherlands Pedophile

2010-12-13T02:00:27Z

Exterior view of daycare center het Hofnarretje in Amsterdam, Sunday Dec. 12, 2010, where a man suspected of abusing preschool children was employed. Parents of dozens of preschool children in Amsterdam have been warned their children may have been abused by a baby sitter in one of the worst sexual abuse cases to come to light in the Netherlands. Authorities say a 27-year-old suspect was arres...

Three Strikes Crusaders

2010-12-11T11:31:33Z

In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2010, Stanford law student Susannah Karlsson, left, poses in the office of Mike Romano, right, a lecturer at the law school on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. S...

Purdue Valparaiso Basketball

2010-12-07T20:32:06Z

Purdue forward Robbie Hummel watches his team prior to first half action in an NCAA men's college basketball game Tuesday Dec. 7, 2010 in Valparaiso,

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MIT to offer labs, certificates to virtual students

Afghanistan denies deal with Taliban over schools

Philippine men bare all to save the earth

US teen cigarette, alcohol use falls: survey

Kids won't eat veggies? Try rewards, a study says

Elected regent has no business working on CSN theft case

Two people killed in Virginia Tech shooting

Illinois study cites cost of high school dropouts

S.Africa ponders sex education for 10-year-olds

Oklahoma teacher who photographed kids in lingerie arrested

Poor schools don't get "fair share": Education Department

More Minnesota school districts to borrow: survey

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Readers Weigh In

Relatives hail pending release of 3 US students

Metro Police hope cracking down on truants puts a dent in crime

After changes, Chaparral student leaders pleased with direction of their school

Bomb attack on Pakistan school kills policeman

Nevada's number of international students falls

'Weightless' US teachers eye giant science leap

Valley needs a medical school

Outcry after China road accident kills 18 children

NY state school cuts hit poor pupils most: report

NY gov's school cuts hit poor pupils hardest: report

Gay Teen Zach Asked To Tone It Down After Beating

China leads surge in foreign students: US report

New Trend Caps College Costs at

District trying to quell bullying Watch reporter Marie Mortera's reports on bullying during the 4 and 6 p.m.newscaststoday on KSNV Channel 3.

Pakistan schools cast minorities in bad light: study

Mountain boarding school gives hope to Moroccan girls

Kids of depressed dads have more behavior problems

Idaho requires two online courses for high school graduation

Higher education's weaknesses are UNLV's opportunities To read more columns by J. Patrick Coolican visit us online at lasvegassun.com/coolican.

Proposed tax hikes headed for defeat in Colorado

"Freshman 15" weight gain is a myth, new study finds

U.S. students struggle to boost reading test scores: report

Essay winner gets to take classmates to see ÔLion King'

Three Albuquerque schools locked down due to SWAT situation

Search for man in shootout with South Carolina police

School Board Shooting

Parenting Santa Terror

Netherlands Pedophile

Three Strikes Crusaders

Purdue Valparaiso Basketball