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Britain’s National Union of Teachers is boycotting the countries standardized test protocal, saying it hurts students. Nearly half the schools scheduled to be giving the exams this week will be boycotting them.
Students arriving at school expecting to be taking an English reading exam will instead be reading aloud with their classes, doing storytelling exercises, and sharing poetry.
Britain is facing increasing pressure from the rest of Europe to ban spanking on human rights grounds.
The deputy head of the Council of Europe has urged Britain to outlaw spanking — or what she calls “smacking.” In the U.K., as in the U.S., corporal punishment is banned in schools, but not at home. Continue reading »
I don’t think anyone, these days, thinks that smoking is a good thing and the ability to smoke in public is being severely restricted in order to protect non-smokers from the effects of second-hand smoke. So it makes perfect sense that Headlands School in Penarth, near Cardiff, Wales, bans teachers from smoking at school. It may be a challenge for the teachers to make it through the day without lighting up, but I’d say it’s an important sacrifice to make and an excellent example to set for the students.
So much for letting your kids get the swine flu and calling the doc for a Tamiflu prescription. As parents debate whether they’ll allow their children to receive the swine flu vaccine, a new study says the side effects of Tamiflu may not merit its use in children. Continue reading »
The term “death row” in relation to stored embryos sounds like the words of an anti-abortion crusader. They’re not.
It’s just what mom Michelle Hickman calls a five-year window granted by the British government to store a couple’s embryos. After that, they say they have to be destroyed. Continue reading »
There are few American adults who couldn’t recite the “i before e” spelling rule that was drilled into our heads as kids. But if American classrooms go the way of the Brits, our own kids may look at us like we’re nuts if we recite the popular spelling adage:
“I before e except after c, and when sounds like ay, as in neighbor or weigh.” Continue reading »
A study published in the British Medical Journal finds that some British women are unhappy enough with the hospital care they have received, or expect to receive, that they are seeking home birth options even when they have medical complications that would make it risky. Continue reading »
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