Tag: education
member name: Duane B.
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September 20, 2006 09:42 AM EDT --
In a report on MSMBC titled "What is the Worth of Words, and subtitled " Will It Matter If People can't read in the Future?, recent studies indicate that only 5% of college graduates can . . .
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July 28, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
The latest issue of Babytalk magazine, a free publication focusing on mothers of infants, has dared to break the Great American Breast Taboo. On the cover of a recent issue is a picture of . . .
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January 28, 2007 11:22 AM EST --
I can at least understand the context and culture when sexual hysteria rears its ugly head in some part of out country that has established a history of opposing any type of sexual education. . . .
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December 16, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
A growing number of states are deciding not to apply for Federal Health and Human Services funds dedicated to abstinence only education. At least 14 states . . .
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October 03, 2006 10:28 AM EDT --
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More and more parents are taking home schooling to a new level and are educating their children without any curriculum or formal plan. It is called "unschooling" and is . . .
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December 12, 2006 10:00 AM EST --
A new high in sexual hysteria was recently reached when a four-year-old pre-kindergartner in Waco, Texas was suspended for “inappropriately” touching a teachers’ aide after hugging . . .
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September 22, 2006 08:56 AM EDT --
A recent MSBNC article on college costs reports that some of the more expensive schools are offering posh dorm rooms and other amenities along with their $40,000 per years tuition. Some students, . . .
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September 26, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
Numerous studies have shown that there is a very high level of correlation between family income and scores on the SAT test administered to high school students. A recent study on . . .
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October 01, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
The first large scale study of the use of medications for ADHD support a genetic link to the disorder. The parents of children taking medication for ADHD were nines times more likely to be taking . . .
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July 01, 2007 01:56 PM EDT --
A tautology is a redundant use of language that adds no information because it is, by definition, necessarily true. An example is the phase: bachelors are unmarried. An unmarried . . .
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July 31, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
My first article on sexual hysteria, Breast Hysteria, outlined the American obsession with breasts and the revulsion, in some quarters, with the concept and images of a mother breast-feeding her infant. . . .
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December 20, 2006 10:19 AM EST --
The Guttmacher Institute has done it again, destroying the sexual myth that that previous generations of Americans were more sexually chaste that today. In a new report, the Institute . . .
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June 17, 2007 10:13 AM EDT --
The US Census Bureau has released new data on US incomes for 2005. In that year the median income for full-time working men was $41.386 and the same number for women was $31,858, about 75% . . .
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January 28, 2008 08:06 PM EST --
MSN has four interesting articles on the job market in the US. I have posted links to the articles below. The first link is to an article that lists the 25 . . .
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August 26, 2006 09:05 AM EDT --
The California Senate approved a bill to permit the distribution of condoms in California jails if signed by Governor Schwarzenegger. Opponents of the bill claim that the distribution of . . .
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November 02, 2006 08:51 AM EST --
An Ethiopian immigrant living in Lawrenceville, Georgia has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the genital mutilation of his daughter in 2001 when she was two years old. The man . . .
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April 28, 2006 11:51 AM EDT --
The new Fed chief, Ben Bernanke appeared before a Congressional committee yesterday to report on the current and future condition of the economy. The financial markets were pleased to hear . . .
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February 11, 2007 12:39 PM EST --
Students participating in sex education classes in Montgomery County Maryland got a real-life lesson in infectious diseases that riled their parents and got some school employees fired. The link . . .
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March 01, 2007 09:26 PM EST --
State supported colleges and universities normally have a two-tier tuition schedule for students based on whether they are residents or non-residents of that state, with in-state students . . .
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April 20, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
But they were ignored or minimized by teachers, family and other adults in a position to intervene at an early age. Even at this early stage in the investigation into the Virginia . . .
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