Education

Survey: Ethics, Fairness among High School Jocks a Critical Problem

by Jim Brown October 27, 2004

A study of student athletes reveals high school sports are filled with cheating and poor sportsmanship. The same study finds that student athletes cheat at higher rates than non-athletes.
Whether it is using a stolen playbook, watering down a field,…

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Expert Advises Joint Effort Against Campus Alcohol Abuse

by Jim Brown October 26, 2004

A Harvard researcher says the recent spate of campus deaths attributed to binge drinking underscores a “long-standing, deeply entrenched problem” at America's colleges and universities.
Dr. Henry Wechsler, director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) College Alcohol Studies…

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Philly’s Education CEO Encourages Faith Connection in Students’ Lives

by Jim Brown October 20, 2004

The head of Philadelphia's public schools is defending his efforts to forge closer ties with faith-based groups in the city. He says religious leaders can help with tutoring, mentoring, counseling, and organizing faith-based clubs — and can do so without…

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Bennett Says US Elementary Schools Exposed to Terrorist Attack

by Bill Fancher October 19, 2004

A former US education secretary is warning that American schoolchildren are at risk from terrorist attacks.
Dr. William Bennett told a Heritage Foundation seminar audience recently that the shocking massacre of children at the Russian school in Beslan by Muslim…

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Has Teaching Been Rendered Impossible in Government Schools?

by CE Editors October 16, 2004

In 1987, seventeen years after my high school graduation following fourteen years (including pre-school and kindergarten) in Washington, DC public (government) schools, I returned to teach mathematics. I was not prepared for the sweeping changes that had occurred in the…

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The New College Year: A Student’s Perspective

by CE Editors October 12, 2004

For many college freshmen, the first couple days at school may be a hesitant and uncertain step into the unknown. Here at Magdalen College, our journey into the unknown is taken with confidence and joy, knit together by a common…

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Acceleration May Be Smart Move for Bright Students

by Jim Brown October 7, 2004

A University of Iowa report finds that accelerating gifted students in school yields positive academic and social results. According to a recent study, when parents advocate for their children to have appropriate placement and the decision is made very carefully,…

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Start of School Very Different for Parents of Boys vs. Parents of Girls

by Glenn Sacks October 5, 2004

We received the notices for my son's and daughter's school in the mail recently. My soon-to-be-first grade daughter jumped up and down, wanting to know who her new teacher will be, what room she will be in, and “when do…

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Terror Simulation Mocks Home Schoolers

by Jim Brown October 2, 2004

A home-school advocacy group is asking the US Department of Homeland Security to investigate a mock terror drill in Michigan that portrayed home schoolers as bus-bombing radicals.
The drill held by the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District and Muskegon County…

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Study Finds Binge Drinking Chronic on US Campuses

by Jim Brown September 21, 2004

Researchers are beginning to see just how serious the problem of alcohol abuse is on university campuses around the nation. A recent study shows that binge drinking on college campuses, both among men and women, is more widespread than previously…

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