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- Public School Teachers And Sexual Misconduct
Richland High School teacher was sentenced to 40 years for having sex with two students. A teacher in Tupelo got 18 years for a similar crime. But a teacher in Clarksdale, who was accused of giving an eighth-grade student gonorrhea, struck a deal with...
- The High School Diploma Isn’t What It Used To Be
A correspondent on National Public Radio recently opined that college was necessary for almost all because “The high school diploma isn’t what it used to be.” Why not try to make the high school diploma what it used to be? In Massachusetts, with...
- Mississippi State University Wants Homeschoolers
Mississippi State University is conducting a survey in order to (a) assess the interest level of Home School students at the high school level in obtaining academic collegiate credit and (b) determine what collegiate academic disciplines most interest...
- Funding For Community Colleges
Whenever I speak to local civic groups about community college issues, people always appear deer-in-the-headlights stunned to learn how their taxes are invested in education. Specifically in FY 2007, for every tax dollar out of the state’s General Fund...
- Public Education Is Inherently Destructive
One of the big problems with the public school system is that the schools are not accountable to the parents. Parents have their children's best interest at heart; unfortunately public schools often do not. Public education is inherently destructive....
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A Solution For Bay High
Rampant fighting among students at Bay High first made headlines earlier this month, when videos of brutal slugfests were posted on the Internet. The cyberbrawls prompted the Waveland Police Department to offer security at the high school until the Bay department could beef up its staff, school officials said.*********************************************************************************
Education & Work Prevent Crime & Proverty
A new scientific method of assessing social welfare programs is revealing something important that's never been known before: which ones work. Among the ones that do, it turns out, are:
-Career Academies, a nationwide high school vocational program whose graduates earn more than comparable nonparticipants with at least a year of community college credits.
-Center for Employment Opportunities, a work program for ex-cons that halves their recidivism rate by putting them to work - and paying them daily - as soon as they're released.
-Louisiana Opening Doors, a $1,000-a-semester performance-basedscholarship whose community college recipients - all low-income parents - earn higher grades and are more likely to stay in school than nonscholarship recipients.
-Jobs-Plus, a multifaceted jobs campaign that helps public housing residents find work and earn bigger paychecks.
Behind each claim of success lies scientific-quality evidence. Typically, it's based on dividing a random selection of volunteers into two groups: one that gets a program's help and one that doesn't.
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High Price for a Joy Ride
Nearly 11 months after a teenage boy died following a manhandling by his overseers at a Panhandle boot camp, a beating that was caught on videotape and led to an overhaul of Florida's juvenile justice system, seven former guards and a nurse were charged Tuesday with manslaughter, a felony that carries a potential 30-year prison term. "I'm finally getting justice for my baby," Gina Jones, mother of Martin Lee Anderson, who was 14, said. Prosecutors said her son died hours after guards choked, kicked and beat him when he collapsed in the exercise yard of the now-defunct Bay County sheriff's camp in Panama City, Fla., on Jan. 5. He had just been sent to the camp for its regimen of military-style training and discipline after taking a joyride in his grandmother's car.*********************************************************************************
- Public School Teachers And Sexual Misconduct
Richland High School teacher was sentenced to 40 years for having sex with two students. A teacher in Tupelo got 18 years for a similar crime. But a teacher in Clarksdale, who was accused of giving an eighth-grade student gonorrhea, struck a deal with...
- The High School Diploma Isn’t What It Used To Be
A correspondent on National Public Radio recently opined that college was necessary for almost all because “The high school diploma isn’t what it used to be.” Why not try to make the high school diploma what it used to be? In Massachusetts, with...
- Mississippi State University Wants Homeschoolers
Mississippi State University is conducting a survey in order to (a) assess the interest level of Home School students at the high school level in obtaining academic collegiate credit and (b) determine what collegiate academic disciplines most interest...
- Funding For Community Colleges
Whenever I speak to local civic groups about community college issues, people always appear deer-in-the-headlights stunned to learn how their taxes are invested in education. Specifically in FY 2007, for every tax dollar out of the state’s General Fund...
- Public Education Is Inherently Destructive
One of the big problems with the public school system is that the schools are not accountable to the parents. Parents have their children's best interest at heart; unfortunately public schools often do not. Public education is inherently destructive....