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Kindergartner Suspended Over Bubble Gun Threat
A 5-year-old girl was suspended from school earlier this week after she made what the school called a “terrorist threat.” Her weapon of choice? A small, Hello Kitty automatic bubble blower.
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Ahmed Al-Khabaz expelled from Dawson College after finding security flaw
A student has been expelled from Dawson College after he discovered and reported a flaw in the computer system used by most Quebec CEGEPs.
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Shooting at Texas College
A shooting on a Texas community college campus wounded at least two people Tuesday and sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said.
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Most of What You Think You Know About Grammar is Wrong
And ending sentences with a preposition is nothing worth worrying about.
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Bill Gates: How to Fix World's Biggest Problems
From the fight against polio to fixing education, what's missing is often good measurement and a commitment to follow the data. We can do better, writes Bill Gates.
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Harvard cheating punishment seen as fair
Banished from the cushy ivory tower, scores of cheating Harvard students were sentenced to six months’ hard time in the real world before they can re-apply to the prestigious university.
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Google Chromebooks now in 2,000 schools, usage doubled in three months
Google has really ramped up its education efforts lately, and it looks like it's paid off.
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Hilarious Things You Can Find in Textbooks
It’s easy to correct your mistakes in a blog post or a website, but what if you’ve just published several thousand copies of a textbook with a ridiculous type-o or a factual mistake? This post presents you 33 examples of textbook fails were the editors clearly didn’t do their job.
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Colville boy called hero for alerting teachers to weapons in classmate's bag
Justin says the boy accused of bringing the weapons tripped while getting off of the bus Thursday. The boy’s backpack spilled, allowing Justin to see the knife he carried in the bag. The long knife scared the fourth grader, so this hero a teacher.
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The most educated countries in the world
College graduation rates continued to improve around the world during the recession, according to a recent international economic study.
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How to make low-skilled jobs seem more attractive
Successive governments have prioritised getting more young people into higher education. But has an unintended consequence of this social mobility drive been the neglect of low-skilled work?
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Chinese Students Wore Uniforms With Cancer-Causing Dyes
Students in 21 schools in Shanghai were ordered to stop wearing uniforms that were found to contain the dye. The incident is the latest in quality-related hazards in the country.
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Billionaire U: Why Harvard Mints Mega-Rich Alums
Harvard leads all universities with some 52 billionaire alumni with a collective fortune of $205 billion.
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Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months
Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic.
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Ted Cruz Responds: There Were Many Communists at Harvard Law
Senator Ted Cruz has responded to The New Yorker’s report that he accused Harvard Law School of having had “twelve” Communists who “believed in the overthrow of the U.S. Government” on its faculty when he attended in the early nineties. Cruz doesn’t deny that he said this; instead, through his spokesman, he says he was right: Harvard Law was full of Communists.
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How to Stop the Bullies
The angst and ire of teenagers is finding new, sometimes dangerous expression online—precipitating threats, fights, and a scourge of harrassment that parents and schools feel powerless to stop. The inside story of how experts at Facebook, computer scientists at MIT, and even members of the hacker collective Anonymous are hunting for solutions to an increasingly tricky problem.
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White House Grants Aaron Swartz's Wish: Taxpayer-Funded Research Will Be Free
Aaron Swartz, a well-known Internet activist who killed himself last month, believed that information should free, not digitized and put behind pay walls.
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Transgendered girl fights school
Just like she did during the first half of the school year, first-grader Coy Mathis wants to use the girls' restroom at her Colorado elementary school. But school officials won't let her.The reason? Coy is transgendered, born with male sex organs but a child who identifies herself as female.
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Quebec student protests after Marois praises peaceful process
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has declared that the unrest related to student protests is over in her province, one year and one week after it began.
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Sleeping Children Learn Better Than Adults
While you're asleep, your brain is busy updating and rebooting. It takes the information you've gathered throughout the day subconsciously and processes it into explicit, conscious knowledge. Children usually perform worse than adults at cognitive tasks, but a new study shows that they are significantly better at this process of implicit to explicit conversion than adults.
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