2012年5月26日星期六

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Detroit Teachers' Union Threatens Lawsuit Over District Policies

Posted: 26 May 2012 03:03 PM PDT

Under Michigan's new teacher tenure law, teachers in Detroit Public Schools were sent layoff notices and must go through a rehiring process. But that process violates contracts within the Detroit Federation of Teachers, so the union might file a lawsuit, Michigan Radio reports.

Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history

Posted: 26 May 2012 12:18 PM PDT

In this 2008 photo provided by the Turkana Basin Institute, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey discusses the evidence for human evolution over a collection of hominin fossil casts at the Turkana Basin Institute's Ileret research facility in northern Kenya. Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history sometime in the next 15 to 30 years. "If you get to the stage where you can persuade people on the evidence, that it's solid, that we are all African, that color is superficial, that stages of development of culture are all interactive," Leakey says, "then I think we have a chance of a world that will respond better to global challenges." (AP Photo/Turkana Basin Institute, Bob Campbell)Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.

Quiet Revolution's old dreams fuel Quebec protests

Posted: 26 May 2012 07:49 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 20, 2012 file photo, protesters opposing Quebec student tuition fee hikes demonstrate in Montreal. Some 150,000 students in more than a dozen Quebec colleges and universities have been on strike since February to protest the provincial government's plan to raise tuition fees. Street protests in Montreal have ended in clashes with police and mass arrests. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes, File)Quebec's generous social services date back to sweeping reforms in the 1960s, a period of intense nationalism. Yet many Quebecers look back at the "Quiet Revolution" with regret over one unfulfilled promise: free higher education.

Mississippi school district agrees to not handcuff students to objects

Posted: 25 May 2012 09:07 PM PDT

(Reuters) - The Jackson, Mississippi, school district has agreed to stop shackling students to fixed objects, after it was sued for handcuffing pupils to railings and poles at a school for troubled children, officials said on Friday. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Jackson Public Schools in 2011 over its treatment of students at the district's Capital City Alternative School. Students at that campus have been suspended or expelled from other schools. ...

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