Daily Archives: 9:05 PM
Obama’s Health Care Law Penalizes Marriage, Analysts Say
A new wrinkle has surfaced in the implementation of the federal health care law that critics argue will impose a significant penalty on women and marriage. The law… Read more
Steiner program axed in school shake-up
PARENTS at an inner-city primary school have been left reeling after the Education Department yesterday moved to sack the school council and scrap the alternative Steiner curriculum without… Read more
Rachel de Souza: ‘We went to pupils’ homes and got them out of bed’
A year after headteacher Rachel de Souza took over at Victory Academy, the school is set to be named the most improved in the country. Richard Garner finds… Read more
Scrap reading tests for pupils aged 6, experts urge ministers
Leading “literacy experts” will today urge the Government to abandon plans for a compulsory national reading test for all six-year-olds next summer. Ministers argue the assessment, which will… Read more
Guatemala still has highest fertility rate in Latin America
Guatemala City. The State of World Population 2011 reveals that Guatemalan women between 15 and 49 years have on average 3.8 children (2010-2015), when the average Latin-American level… Read more
Overconsumption, who is using up all the resources?
According to Wikipedia Over-consumption is a situation where resource-use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem. A prolonged pattern of overconsumption leads to inevitable environmental degradation and… Read more
Youth groups in the UK: ‘We’re about really doing it’
Dress in pink day, singing lessons while jogging, a ‘love box’ messaging network … when it comes to teaching the arts, are youth groups leaving schools behind? Where… Read more
Teachers lobby MPs over pension changes
Schools minister Nick Gibb is given 150,000-signature petition urging government to scrap proposed changes to teachers’ pensions Thousands of teachers and lecturers travelled from all over the country… Read more
Read all about it: Britain’s shameful literacy crisis
So rioters shunned bookshops because they didn’t offer anything they wanted? That points to a debilitating exclusion from a civilised culture In the immediate wake of the riots,… Read more
Students use ‘obscene, offensive’ language in exams
A growing number of GCSE and A-Level students are writing inappropriate and offensive remarks on their exam papers, the exams watchdog has warned. Instead of answering questions, candidates… Read more
