Security experts say new electronic voting machines can be hacked By The Christian Science Monitor Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:46 EDT Rapid advances in the development of cyberweapons and malicious software mean that electronic-voting machines used in the 2012 election… Read More ›
Education
Vit. D the Most underutilized COVID tool, Low Income Households Crushed by Lockdowns, Plus Data
This week we look at how bad the lockdown is affecting low-income families, and ask why after so many months Vitamin D has been ignored. As well as Low Dose Aspirin has a powerful benefit against COVID. #aspirin #covid #lockdown… Read More ›
Cognitive decline reversed 30 years in 6 weeks
Cognitive decline reversed 30 years in 6 weeks Cognitive decline reversed 30 years in 6 weeks After just 1 ½ months, participants increased their cognitive abilities to levels similar to those of middle-aged adults, 30 years younger. Control group members,… Read More ›
Miley Cyrus promises tour will be educational and artistic
In an interview with her sister, singer says kids will learn about different kinds of art from her Bangerz tour Guardian Music theguardian.com, Sunday 9 February 2014 07.12 EST Miley Cyrus … education, education, education. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Clear… Read More ›
$130 billion a year wasted on poor quality education: UN
29 Jan 2014 Paris (AFP) A quarter of a billion children worldwide are failing to learn basic reading and maths skills in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion annually, the UN’s cultural agency warned in a report Wednesday…. Read More ›
‘Hip-hop’ students unfairly targeted, study finds
Published: Jan. 10, 2014 Black and Latino “hip-hop” students are disproportionately punished in urban schools, finds a two-year study that sheds light on some of the unfair disciplinary practices newly targeted by the Obama administration. Muhammad Khalifa, a Michigan State… Read More ›
Free public education that pays for itself? / education securities
– students would commit to paying a fixed percentage of their income (6%) during their prime earning years (35-54 for example) to the university that awarded their degree – student promises for a given university cohort bundled and sold to… Read More ›
Nature trumps nurture in exam success: GCSE results are ‘mainly determined by genes,’ says landmark study of twins
Conclusion that teachers are less important than biology sparks outrage, as researchers call for national curriculum to be abandoned in favour of personalised lesson plans Richard Garner Wednesday, 11 December 2013 Genetics has a more powerful influence on pupils’ GCSE… Read More ›
Little boy makes pretend arrow-shooting gesture, could be expelled
Posted By Robby Soave On 9:32 PM 12/08/2013 In | Yet more evidence that schools go to extreme lengths to punish children for even thinking about weapons: A 10-year-old Georgia boy was suspended for a day after he pretended to… Read More ›
Harvard students don’t know the capital of Canada
Friday, 22 November 2013 Harvard students are asked who is the capital of Canada? This sort of question is typically answered by someone who has gone through the third grade in Europe (excluding UK), but students at Harvard (supposedly greatest… Read More ›
Unless we change the way we fund universities, our system will collapse ( U.K. )
Soon the only graduates carrying on their studies will be the sons and daughters of the very rich or those who can secure bursaries, scholarships and grants Will Hutton The Observer, Saturday 12 October 2013 The system of student… Read More ›
The perks of US education standards: ‘’Who is Fidel Castro?’ – ‘A singer?’ “About 95% failed to name the winners and the losers in WWII”
EEV: Needs second source confirmation The perks of US education standards: ‘’Who is Fidel Castro?’ – ‘A singer?’ After graduating from American high schools, many children of wealthy Tajik, Kyrgyz and Uzbek families have failed entrance exams at universities in… Read More ›
College enrolment down by a half million students in 2012 with older students the most turned off further studies
Half a million fewer students enrolled in colleges in 2012 than 2011 Biggest drop is in mature students ages 25 and older However, there has been an increase in the number of Hispanics enrolling Hispanics account for 17 percent of… Read More ›
Odious Slate writer: Only evil people send their kids to private schools
Posted By Robby Soave On 9:54 PM 08/29/2013 In Education | No Comments Have the manifest failures of public education motivated you to enroll your own children in private schools? If so, you are evil, argues Slate editor Allison Benedikt…. Read More ›
School pupils should be taught ‘not all porn is bad’, advise experts
Teachers should be aware that “not all pornography is bad” when taking sex education classes, according to guidance made available to schools. Pupils as young as 11 should be taught the dangers of ‘sexting’ Photo: PA By Melanie Hall and… Read More ›
CIA Vaccine Hoax Condemned By Public Health Deans
William McGuinness william.mcguinness@huffingtonpost.com Posted: 01/10/2013 5:41 pm EST | Updated: 01/10/2013 6:32 pm EST University public health schools’ deans say health workers should be off limits. Public health school deans from prominent colleges and universities across the country have signed a… Read More ›
56 percent of female university students get drunk in record time
Contact: Press Office info@agenciasinc.es 34-914-251-820 FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Female university students get drunk – on purpose – quicker than their male counterparts, and live a more sedentary life than they do, according to a study… Read More ›
Kids face developmental difficulties
Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 Jiji Some 6.5 percent of Japanese elementary and junior high school students may have developmental disorders, an education ministry survey said Wednesday. The survey, conducted in February and March, was based on the evaluations of… Read More ›
The Penn State Scandal Faces Off 2 Mysterious Government Agents With Top Secret Clearance
Michael Kelley|Nov. 7, 2012, 4:05 PM| Two men on opposite sides of one of the biggest scandals in sports history share an air of secrecy granted by their work for the FBI. Former Penn St. president Graham Spanier was arraigned… Read More ›
Physical activity may strengthen children’s ability to pay attention
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Melissa Mitchell melissa@illinois.edu 217-333-5491 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As school districts across the nation revamped curricula to meet requirements of the federal “No Child Left Behind” Act, opportunities for… Read More ›
Whether we like someone affects how our brain processes movement
Contact: Suzanne Wu suzanne.wu@usc.edu 213-740-0252 University of Southern California Hate the Lakers? Do the Celtics make you want to hurl? Whether you like someone can affect how your brain processes their actions, according to new research from the Brain and… Read More ›
Japanese porn star in workbook (school book) angers Indonesian parents
Indonesian authorities are investigating how a picture of a Japanese porn star came to be printed on a junior high school worksheet, media reports say. An English subject worksheet for third-year students at an Islamic school in East… Read More ›
50% of students lack basic math / National test results show 6th-graders struggle with decimals, ratios (Japan)
The Yomiuri Shimbun Nearly half of all sixth-grade primary school students do not understand multiplication and division with decimals, which is taught in the fifth grade or earlier, according to a study by the National Institute for Educational Policy Research… Read More ›
Rodent study finds artificial butter chemical harmful to lungs: inhaled diacetyl vapors for three months, developed lymphocytic bronchiolitis
Contact: Robin Mackar rmackar@niehs.nih.gov 919-541-0073 NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences A new study shows that exposure to a chemical called diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavoring, can be harmful to the nose and airways of mice. Scientists at… Read More ›
Only about 33% of Lead Nurses use Evidence-Based Patient Care – ” the longer nurses had been working in health care, the less interested they were in learning more about evidence-based practice.”
Nurse Leader Resistance Perceived as a Barrier to High-Quality, Evidence-Based Patient Care COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new national survey of more than 1,000 registered nurses suggests that serious barriers – including resistance from nursing leaders – prevent nurses from implementing… Read More ›
Aggression as rewarding as sex, food and drugs
Contact: Melanie Moran melanie.moran@vanderbilt.edu 615-322-2706 Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn.—New research from Vanderbilt University shows for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward – much like sex, food and drugs – offering insights into our propensity to… Read More ›
Forget playing fair, cheaters get a natural ‘high’ breaking the rules
Forget playing fair, cheaters get a natural ‘high’ breaking the rules By Suzannah Hills PUBLISHED:20:11 EST, 7 August 2012| UPDATED:07:46 EST, 8 August 2012 Cheaters get a natural ‘high’ from breaking the rules, a new study has found. Far from… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 