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Rachel F. Moran, who teaches a course called "Education and the Law" at the University of California, Berkeley, says this series of rulings does indeed provoke some uneasy questions. Right now, all parents have to do is file paperwork stating they are a private school. No one checks in on the students to make sure they are logging in a certain number of hours or passing certain benchmarks. While homeschooling is a "wonderful alternative," Moran says, there is a need for checks and balances. "We want parents to have the freedom to homeschool, but we don't want children...
...comparable to that in the U.S., where obesity in children aged between six and 11 has tripled over the past three decades, which may be why a few U.S. states already send reports on heavy kids home to parents. The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, published a paper in November 2006 describing the "risks and benefits of BMI reporting in the school setting", and in May 2007, Wyoming started a program in which students' report cards came complete with their...
...Other academic institutions, including the medical schools at Stanford and Michigan and the school of public health at Berkeley, will be also contributing to the Medpedia Project, though all of the content that they provide will be editable...
...stoner in real life or just in the movies? Adam Odsess-Rubin BERKELEY, CALIF...
...from Berkeley asked that? That's a shock. Yeah, I smoke pot. Not to the extent that my characters do, just because I have jobs and my characters often...