Monthly Archives: November 2011
Study Shows Foster Children Have High Rates of Prescription of Psychiatric Medications
The federal government has not done enough to oversee the treatment of America’s foster children with powerful mind-altering drugs, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to… Read more
The NEA’s Full Disclosure: $133 Million to Preserve Its Influence\
Dropout Nation just got a hold of the National Education Associaton’s 2010-2011 LM-2 filing with the National Education Association. The numbers are spectacular. The nation’s largest teachers’ union… Read more
America Recycles Day Contest Winners
Winning Schools and Nonprofit Organizations Support Environmental Awareness and Encourage Greater Recycling Efforts Through FundingFactory Participation ERIE, Pa. (Nov. 30, 2011) – Public voting on Facebook has determined the winners… Read more
Research Findings on Blended Learning
How well people absorb, process and remember new concepts and skills can be dependent on how the information was transferred to them. Was it through a lecture or video, through… Read more
Tulane and KIPP form partnership to help boost graduation rates
Tulane University and one of the country’s most prominent public charter school operators plan to sign a new agreement Tuesday with the dual aim of boosting college graduation… Read more
Fordham Law Students Accuse School Of Misleading Birth Control Policy
A group of Fordham University law students has organized an off-campus birth control clinic in response to the school’s policy prohibiting the prescription of contraception at its campus health centers…. Read more
Class revolution is the wheel deal
IT IS pedal-driven, has two wheels and brakes and is responsible for a spike in school attendance on Wednesdays at Kensington Community High. The humble bicycle is also… Read more
Obama restores U.S. horse-slaughter industry
President Obama earlier this month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the… Read more
2012 Presidential Matchups – Rasmussen Reports™
National Poll: Gingrich 45% Obama 43% The Newt Gingrich surge has moved him to the top of the polls in Iowa, big gains in New Hampshire and now a two-point edge… Read more
Eric Holder Seals Records of Murdered Border Patrol Agent Implicated in Fast and Furious
And to think that Attorney General Eric Holder is getting testy about congressional calls for his resignation. After all, the Justice Department has nothing to hide, right? The Obama Administration… Read more
