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• Same old story, creating cohesive societies by promoting faith schools - secterianism in action

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Faith Schools, Child Abuse, Indoctrination

  (as in publicly funded schools) precisely because they're any society's best shot at building a cohesive society (at least in the minds of kids going to school). Faith based schools, in that sense, are the last thing one would want to see. In a way, they constitute a form of child abuse as children are ideologically brainwashed while

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• Sustaining Change with Christian Long and Chris Lehman

  Published: July 20, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Building Schools, Socialisation, Blc07

  look different in these schools which are rebuilt, but it's not the build that necessarily makes the difference to learning, although it helps make it quicker, perhaps. You can rebuild a school without touching a brick. It's vital that, after a conference like this, one does not try to replicate the Philly or the Marco Torres effect in a

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• China Dreamblogue Travel for Charity and Understanding

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:43 am

  Tags: Intercultural Issues, Study In Usa, Study In America, Recommended Schools In America,

  Guide for Chinese Students   Here you can download the guide to studying in the USA.The guides will help you to apply for training and visas relating to

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• Is autism different in girls than in boys?

  Published: August 5, 2007, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Gender, Genetics, Classics, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Boys, Children, College, Family, Genders, Girls, Health, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Schools, Students, Teachers

  a particular challenge for schools. Though mainstreaming has its benefits, autistic kids risk becoming outcasts in a regular classroom. Yet if girls go to a special-education program or a separate school, they are often swimming in a sea of boys. Lord pointed to this as a factor in girls' lack of friendships in her 1993 study. When the girls in

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• China Dreamblogue Travel for Charity and Understanding

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: China Travel, China Cartoons, Humor, Supporters, Things To Bring To China, China Provinces, China Whispers, China Friend Finder, Intercultural Issues, Profiles In Chinese Courage, Expats In China, Global Outreach, , Study In Usa, Study In America, Recommended Schools

  In this round of dreaming, we have voices from all over the world. Where does your voice fit in? Abbas, from Kurdistan/Iraq: “My dream is how to study in the foreign country, especially in USA or UK or Canada or Australia, becuase i am looking for an opportunity to get my master degree in LLM or MBA. I hope i can find someone who can

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• Children told to copy lines from Muslim Call To Prayer - to practise their handwriting

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:35 am

  Tags: Schools Religion

  In the UK, angry parents take a school to task for making children practice their handwriting by copying a Muslim prayer.

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• China Dreamblogue Travel for Charity and Understanding

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: China Travel, China Cartoons, Humor, Supporters, Things To Bring To China, China Provinces, China Whispers, China Friend Finder, Intercultural Issues, Profiles In Chinese Courage, Expats In China, Global Outreach, , Study In Usa, Study In America, Recommended Schools

  In this round of dreaming, we have voices from all over the world. Where does your voice fit in? Abbas, from Kurdistan/Iraq: “My dream is how to study in a foreign country, especially in USA or UK or Canada or Australia, because i am looking for an opportunity to get my master degree in LLM or MBA. I hope I can find someone who can help

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• Texas moment of silence challenged

  Published: August 12, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Church State, Churchandstate, First Amendment, Firstamendment, Freedom, Lawsuit, Lawsuits, Religion, School, Schools, Separation, Texas

  the state mandates that schools observe a minute of silence each day? I didn't. Although they don't specify an intended purpose, it's pretty clear that it is intended to be used for prayer. At least, that's the contention of David and Shannon Croft of Carrollton, Texas. The couple has three children in a local elementary school and is

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• Brits over-estimate gifted population

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:50 am

  Tags: England, Gate, Gifted, Intelligence, School, Schools, Talented

  has been doing it as well. Schools are asked to identify ten percent of their students as being gifted and talented, but new research indicates that the correct numbers are more like two to five percent.There is also the problem of which children are being selected. The research seems to indicate that children who were well-behaved and who

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• Extreme Learning by any other name?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Extreme Learning, New Brunswick, Rich Tasks, Edubuzz, Elcouncil

  About now teachers across Scotland go back to school, the kids joining them later on this week. For secondary teachers comes that interesting moment of meeting your new 'S1' students, the ones just out of primary school. At this time another feeling would come into my mind: "I just can't do this French textbook with them; it'll bore them silly

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• Who diagnosed your child? And why does it matter?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:22 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Family, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Disability Rights, Due Process, Family, Fort Worth, Health, Pdd Nos, Schools, Texas

  A district diagnositician from the Forth Worth public school district said that Sam Peters was not autistic—-he was later diagnosed with PDD-NOS by the Child Study Center in Fort Worth and Mental Health Mental Retardation of Tarrant County. According to the August 13th Star-Telegram, his parents, Jon and Jessica Peters, decided to move to

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• Asa G. Hilliard Dead

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:53 pm

  Tags: General News, 100 Black Men Of Atlanta, Asa G Hilliard, Asa Hilliard, Asa Hilliard Dead, Asa Hilliard Died, Atlanta Public Schools

  died, atlanta public schoolsDid you enjoy reading this post? Buy me a nice cup of coffee to fuel my late night writing sessions and keep the content

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• Extreme Learning by any other name?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Leadership Management, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Extreme Learning, New Brunswick, Rich Tasks, Edubuzz, Elcouncil

  About now teachers across Scotland go back to school, the kids joining them later on this week. For secondary teachers comes that interesting moment of meeting your new 'S1' students, the ones just out of primary school. At this time another feeling would come into my mind: "I just can't do this French textbook with them; it'll bore them

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• Reader's Questions: Answers Sought!

  Published: August 14, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Philippines, Asia, Race Amp Amp Ethnicity, Diagnosis, Psychology, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Philippines, Schools, Therapy, Treatment

  Back on July 18th, Victoria Elizaga left a comment on the post Autism Consciousness Week in the Philippines. Victoria, I regret it has taken me so long to respond—-here is the comment: “Hello everyone! I'm marrid to a Phillipeno and our youngest has just been diagnosed with ADHA. My mother and I both have dyslexia to some some exent,

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• Map of Future Forces Affecting Education

  Published: August 16, 2007, 2:06 am

  Tags: Building Schools, Digital Image, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Socialisation

  and their interplay with schools. Clicking on each element reveals more detail and an invitation to a discussion board. A relatively simply but rich visualisation for a complex set of issues and, while it's designed for a US education system, there are valid points for us all. (via Information Aesthetics)

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