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Testing company to be fined

Las Vegas Sun (NV)

September 29, 2003

Harcourt was fined $425,000 last year for making mistakes in grading the tests of high school students.

The performance of Harcourt Educational Measurement, the Texas-based testing firm used by the state, has been unsatisfactory and the company should be fined up to $483,000, the state Board of Education decided Saturday during its meeting in Las Vegas.

13th Annual Living with Asthma Poster Contest

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

by Entry Deadline: December 9, 2003

September 6, 2003

Just For Kids: Poster Contest

Open to children in grades 1 through 8 who have asthma. Express your asthma control in a colorful poster and you could win great prizes. Your poster might show how you exercise, play team sports, go to camp, participate in band, dance, monitor your breathing, control your asthma triggers, take your medicine, follow your doctor's advice, or use an asthma action plan. [See link for complete contest rules.]

2003 Youth Wildlife Art Contest

The National Rifle Association - Headquarters

by Entry Deadline: October 1, 2003

September 6, 2003

The NRA is now accepting entries for its 2003 Youth Wildlife Art Contest.

The contest, the 16th in the annual series, is open to students in grades 1 through 12 (including homeschooled children). NRA membership is not required. The deadline to enter is October 1, 2003.[See website for complete rules.]

University allows professor to keep anti-gay blog on school server

USA Today (IN)

September 5, 2003

Indiana University is allowing a professor to continue posting through the school's Web site a personal log with criticisms of homosexuals despite complaints from some staffers.

"I did not know it was so controversial to provide arguments for why homosexuals should not be employed as school teachers, but it seems that people at universities get excited about opinions that are common, perhaps even the norm, elsewhere in the United States," Rasmusen wrote in an e-mail to the Indiana Daily Student newspaper.

Students looking for flexibility turn to online classes

USA Today

by AP Wire (IL)

September 5, 2003

Course enrollments in the cyber school tripled this year, from 410 to 1,230, and Wicks expects 900 enrollments during this fall semester.

About 40,000 to 50,000 K-12 students are enrolled in online courses nationwide, according to a 2001 study by WestEd, an educational research group. <br><br>At least 14 states from Arkansas to West Virginia run virtual schools that are recognized by a state agency, the study noted.

Teenage drug use, smoking up slightly

St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)

by Darlene Superville

September 4, 2003

Illegal drug use and cigarette smoking among sixth- through 12th-graders increased slightly during the past school year.

Twenty-four percent of these teenagers reported using marijuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens or other illegal drugs at least once in the 2002-2003 school year, compared with 22 percent the year before, according to the private study by Pride Surveys released Wednesday.

School system blocks access to teacher-rating site

USA Today (AL)

by AP Wire

September 4, 2003

Students don't get to grade teachers at school, and Shelby County educators are making sure it stays that way.

The county has banned the use of school computers to visit a Web site called ratemyteachers.com, where students can turn the table on teachers and assess their performance in the classroom.

A Guide to Surviving as a Juror

counterpunch.org

by Clay S. Conrad

February 5, 2003

Government has a boundless appetite to inflict senseless pain on Americans, in the guise of the war on drugs, even at the cost of degrading Federalism and the needs and values of the American people. A recent case demonstrates this arrogance handily.

Ed Rosenthal was a medical marijuana supplier who, in compliance with the California Compassionate Use Act, had been growing marijuana for seriously ill people under a doctor's advice and care. Rosenthal was arrested in February, 2002 and accused of supplying marijuana to the Harm Reduction Center in San Francisco. Rosenthal had been deputized by the city of Oakland, California and made the official supplier of a city-sponsored medical marijuana dispensary. The Compassionate Use Act passed with 78 percent of the vote in San Francisco. It took a total of eighty jurors to find twelve willing to convict Rosenthal. Most of those summoned for jury duty said they would not be willing to brand someone a felon for growing or distributing medical marijuana...

Why Education Is So Difficult and Contentious

Parent-Directed Education

by Kieran Egan

January 1, 2003

Knowledge exists only in living human tissue, and the literacy codes we use for storage are cues that need to go through a complex transformation before they can be brought to life again in another mind.

This article proposes to explain why education is so difficult and contentious by arguing that educational thinking draws on only three fundamental ideas-that of socializing the young, shaping the mind by a disciplined academic curriculum, and facilitating the development of students' potential.

Virtual charters: public schooling, at home

The Christian Science Monitor

by Shira J. Boss

January 8, 2002

More than 700 students across Pennsylvania have enrolled in the Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School. But some local school districts are rebelling.

One daughter loves going to third grade at public school every day; the other one started rebelling in kindergarten.

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