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Girl Collapses in Kan. Gym Class, Dies

An 11-year-old middle school student has died after collapsing during physical education class.

Man Held After Threatening Class Reunion

A man who allegedly threatened to make the deadly Virginia Tech shootings look like a "birthday party" at his high school reunion was arrested and deputies found hundreds of homemade explosives at his house, officials said Thursday.

SoCal College Offers YouTube Class

Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.

Snake Wanders Into Class, Bites Student

Students hopped on chairs and screams erupted when a nonpoisonous bull snake wandered into a classroom at Colorado State University Wednesday and bit a student in the hand.

FSU Launches Seminole History Class

Florida State University student Daniel Lee learned in fourth grade most of what he knew about the Seminole Indians, namesakes of his school's athletic teams. It wasn't much.

Girl Dismissed From Lifting Class Sues

An Anderson County teenager has filed a lawsuit over her temporary dismissal from a weightlifting class by a principal who feared male students might try to rape her.

Program Teaches Kids About Cyber Security

A group of students at Rome Catholic School are learning how to become the future defenders of cyberspace through a pilot program that officials say is the first of its kind in the country.

The Vine

Why Barack Obama Brings Hope to Blacks, in particular

Some people might argue that class outweighs race in defining people of colour in the USA. But that is not quite true.

Arts study a culture shock

Source: Toronto

Forget class versus trash, the elite versus the masses. Divide culture consumers into four new groups, says an international study Oxford University researchers released late last month that will have far-reaching results for arts support everywhere.

The Problem with Populists: Turns Out, The Middle Class is Getting Richer.

Source: RealClearPolitics

Like Job after losing his camels and acquiring boils, the conservative movement is in distress. Mike Huckabee shreds the compact that has held the movement's two tendencies in sometimes uneasy equipoise.

The Best and Worst of 2007: Education

Source: The Century Foundation

The world of education suffered two major set backs in 2007—the adoption of a radical private school vouchers program by the Utah state legislature, and a decision by the U.S.

Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time

Source: The Nation

Much was made of Illinois Senator Barack Obama's superb speech to a huge crowd of Iowa Democrats at the mid-November Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines.

Republican candidates understand biology better than economics

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Since several of the Republican presidential candidates regard creationism as a serious theory in biology, it should not be surprising that their economic views also have little connection to reality.

Haunted House Films Are Really About the Nightmares of Gentrification

Source: AlterNet.org

A good read for anyone interested in film and culture studies. Rich city folks move out into the country and find themselves up against nasty poor locals and a ghost in another recent vengeful-spirit film, Wendigo.

BBC NEWS | Talk more in class, experts say

Source: BBC News

Children should be allowed to talk more in class, education experts have argued, despite the traditional view that chatter can be disruptive. The Cambridge University study also said that a competitive atmosphere in class could be counter-productive.

What Did the Professor Say? Check Your iPod

Source: The New York Times

STUDENTS staring at their iPod screens may be taking a break with a music video — or they may be reviewing a tough chemistry lecture.

Watch UC Berkeley Classes Free on YouTube

Source: Pay for College Blog

Wish you could attend a class at Berkeley without paying a dime? Now you can watch full-length class videos of entire courses from UC Berkeley for free at their YouTube portal, no available to the public!

Ms. Hamilton's 1st Period Class at Dorman Freshman Campus

I just received 2 letters from Ms. Hamilton's 1st Period Class at Dorman Freshman Campus, in Spartanburg, SC. I only wish I could give Ms. Hamilton the raise you requested.

Wouldn't cha know it - now someone's come out with a ''Muhammed Free Speech Teddy Bear''

Source:

Well-- it had to happen! Some entrepreneurial capitalistic class whore has found a way to profit . . . from the brouhaha over . . . the prophet! More silliness over the original silly event.

Ron Paul: " Oppose the Federal Welfare State"

Source: LewRockwell.com

Excerpt: ''Ron Paul in the US House of Representatives, February 13, 2003

Class struggles spill out on the airwaves

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

CALLER, YOU'RE on the air. Do you consider yourself: A) Upper-class? B) Middle-class? C) Lower-class?

UK children 'reading too early'

Source: BBC News

Children are too young to learn to read when they first start school in the UK, an academic claims. Pushing reception pupils too hard could put them off for life, especially boys, says Professor Lilian Katz.

Pottery class sparks artist's work

Source: greatfallstribune.com

A pottery class at Edmonds Community College sparked Earl Livermore's explorations in clay now on exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana.

Brady's New England Patriots have no class

Source: mediapundit.net

I have no intention of doing sports here beyond the occasional TV schedule for a major sport's playoff, but I really need to get this off my chest.

Forty Acres and a Gap in Wealth

Source: The New York Times

the Pew Research Center published the astonishing finding that 37 percent of African-Americans polled felt that "blacks today can no longer be thought of as a single race" because of a widening class divide.

Venezuela's Chavez & Spain's Juan Carlos and ¿Por qué no te callas? (Why don't you shut up?)

Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

What the cultural phenomenon of "¿Por qué no te callas?" glosses over are some real issues that were attempting to be addressed at the 17th Ibero-American summit in Chile

A Conspiracy of Two Parties: The Grand Delusion

Source: Counterpunch

...the greatest national group delusion is that electing Democrats in 2008 is what the country needs.

Middle classes abandon state schools

Source: Telegraph

A growing proportion of middle-class parents are giving up on state education after 10 years of Labour rule by paying to educate their children in the independent sector, official figures have disclosed.

Update: Stewart's Rep Denies He's Paying Writers Out Of Pocket During Strike

Source: The Huffington Post

In a show of solidarity with his fellow scribes, the Daily Show host has told his writing staff that he will cover all their salaries for the next two weeks

Neo-Liberalism is creating its own gravediggers

Source: ukwatch.net

A search of Hansard, the parliamentary bible reveals that the two words 'working class' were mentioned just 38 times last year, approximately three times a month.

Reducing US Casualties By Killing More Civilians

Source: Counterpunch

Several years ago, I warned that as the Bush/Cheney administration sought to reduce politically problematic casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would resort to increased use of air attacks to combat the growing insurgency in Iraq and the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Ruling Class in America Has Become Far Too Powerful

Source: The Huffington Post

Elected officials are sent to Washington to govern but not to rule. This may sound like a question of semantics or at best a fine distinction. But rulership isn't a legitimate part of democracy.

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