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Playing Nintendo's Brain Trainer 'can improve childrens' maths skills' - Telegraph

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Children playing Nintendo can significantly improve their maths skills and extend their attention spans, according to research.

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Math Clock - Photo

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Math Clock - Photo

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Brunswick school board to consider creationism teaching | StarNewsOnline.com | Star-News | Wilmington, NC

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Bolivia | The Brunswick County school board is looking for a way for creationism to be taught in the classroom side by side with evolution.

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Wall Street's collapse may be computer science's gain

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September 26, 2008 (Computerworld) The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and IT careers attractive to students who abandoned these fields in droves after the pop of the last big bubble, the dot-com bust of 2001.

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FOXNews.com - Middle School Girl's Perfume Sends 11 Students, Bus Driver to Hospital - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News

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MANCHESTER, N.H — It's supposed to turn heads, but some perfume turned stomachs on a school bus in Manchester, N.H.

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Teacher Accidentally Screens Porno to Classroom - Asylum | Men's Lifestyle | Humor, weird news, sex tips, fashion, dating, food and gadgets

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A Phoenix photography teacher is currently under investigation for unwittingly showing pornography to a class of 13 students.

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Earn an A? Here's $50. -- chicagotribune.com

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(Eke out a C? That's still good for $20.) A Chicago Public Schools pilot program will pay up to 5,000 freshmen for good grades. Is that a smart idea?

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Student Auctioning Virginity at Brothel

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LOS ANGELES (Sept. 11) - A 22-year-old woman in the United States is publicly auctioning her virginity to pay for her college education, sparking a heated online debate about sex and morality.

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Wine causes sneezing fits in allergic student - Telegraph

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For Leah, Miller, 19, a student at Portsmouth University, the attacks are a constant blight on her social life.

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Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin : NPR

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Palin, shown here campaigning in Wisconsin on Friday, has said she is "opposed to explicit sex education."

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Tracking the reasons many girls avoid science and math

abuu sumitted ago via http://www.physorg.com (Views: 51, Clicks: 5)
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Most parents and many teachers believe that if middle-school and high-school girls show no interest in science or math, there's little anyone can do about it

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Einstein's 23 Biggest Mistakes | Einstein | DISCOVER Magazine

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The man with the big ideas wasn't so good with the details. In Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius (W.W. Norton, $24.95, excerpted below), Hans Ohanian writes that Albert often let his intuition overrule flawed proofs and shaky math. Maybe you'll feel a little better about your own flubs.

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Bill Nye the Science Guy Stuff Happens - Interview With Bill Nye - thedailygreen.com

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Bill Nye is a long-time environmentalist with a motto: "Leave the world a better place. (Sometimes you gotta pick up somebody else's trash.)"

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McCain's VP Wants Creationism Taught in School | Wired Science from Wired.com

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In a 2006 gubernatorial debate, the soon-to-be governor of Alaska said of evolution and creation education, "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of education. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."

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Long Division: The Debate Over the Value of Preschool - WSJ.com

abuu sumitted ago via http://online.wsj.com (Views: 34, Clicks: 0)
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Parents and policy makers have long debated whether preschools provide any educational benefit -- and whether it makes sense for states to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to fund them. A study appearing Friday in the journal Science could reignite the debate.

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