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...current French government seems altogether appropriate. Asking ten-year-olds to read about the horrific deaths of their fellow children, however, may not be the best way to do this. Sarkozy is not an educator, and as a consequence his attempt to design a comprehensive curriculum for schoolchildren is inane in comparison to his political decisions. Sarkozy obviously never consulted French educators on his plans for the French education system, ignoring both the logistics of implementation and the psychology of the children he would influence. It would serve him well to listen to the people chosen by the French...
Next year the Texas State Board of Education will be writing the science curriculum standards for Texas public schoolchildren, and Huckabee may bring enough conservative fundamentalist voters to the polls on March 4 to swing the balance of power on the board to the supporters of creationism. "If Huckabee marshals the religious right in Texas, particularly in North Texas, it has profound implications for the state board," says Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), an Austin-based advocacy group whose stated goal is to "counter the religious right" in public policy issues, particularly education...
...Just before the meeting at Downing Street, a group of gunmen took around 250 schoolchildren hostage in Pakistan's north-west Bannu district. Then, as Brown and Musharraf discussed how the president was going to crack down on extremism in Pakistan, the gunman - who, according to Musharraf, only ran into the school to escape from police - freed the children and turned themselves in to the tribal elders who were acting as negotiators. Brown might have seen the peaceful outcome as either an omen or perhaps real-world proof that Musharraf is, in the words of the prime minister...
When he is out on patrol, primary schoolchildren dash across the street to greet Cook, running past armed neighborhood guards to proudly show him their report cards. "Hellow meestah Cook!" they shout. "Zien, zien!" Cook says, ("good, good") encouraging them in Arabic. Armed plainclothes gunmen - volunteers Cook helped organize - checked inside cars passing through the crosswalk...
Snow days, long the domain of schoolchildren, apparently exist at Harvard as well—just not for its students...