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Teacher Faces Termination for BUYING BOOKS for Students 0
- Education
- May 17, 2016
Have you ever wondered why the Nation’s Report Card shows that only 37 percent of America’s high school seniors are proficient in reading? If so, New York English teacher Todd Friedman might have an answer: bureaucracy. According to the New York Post, the award-winning teaching veteran recently got in trouble when he bought a bulk shipment of Frankenstein novels for
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Apprenticeship in High School? This State is Trying It.0
- Culture
- May 17, 2016
Although apprenticeships have long been a staple of European education, many in the U.S. have viewed them skeptically, having been told that college is the only path to career success. Any student who refuses to tread the college path is thus often viewed as less than brilliant. This narrow view of apprenticeship may be set
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Did Bad Hemorrhoids Cause Napoleon to Lose at Waterloo?0
- Entertainment
- May 17, 2016
Practically before the last musket had fired, people were trying to explain how Napoleon lost at the famous Battle of Waterloo. A theory that has persisted is that Napoleon was suffering from a bad case of hemorrhoids at the time of the battle, and this delayed his opening assault on the morning of June 18,
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A (Seemingly) Simple Way to Feel Happier 0
- Culture
- May 16, 2016
Doing good things for others, even on a small scale, seems to increase one’s sense of well-being and happiness more than things done to help one self. So concludes a new study in the journal Emotion (Nelson et al., 2016). Dr. Jeremy Dean at PsyBlog sums it up as follows: “…as people do nice things for
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Did a 15-Year-Old Student Discover a Lost Mayan City?0
- Culture
- May 16, 2016
My friends and I would always talk about how much of the Earth is still unexplored and what it might be like to stumble across an ancient city or culture that has been hiding for centuries. I’m sure it’s been the dream of millions of kids around the world, especially with archeological icons like Indiana
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Why do Media Ignore Communism’s Criminal Past?0
- Education
- May 16, 2016
It seems more and more Western leaders are going to Cuba to prostrate themselves at the feet of the ruling dynasty, the Castros. UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond went there on April 28, about a month after US President Barack Obama paid obeisance. Which raises the question of “why”? They hardly need Cuba’s vast wealth, which is
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Teacher Faces Termination for BUYING BOOKS for Students 0