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...string of deadly attacks on Chinese schoolchildren that began in August, when a schizophrenic janitor at a Beijing kindergarten stabbed 14 children, killing one, according to police. A bus driver in Shandong province was executed earlier this month for slashing 24 kids in September; last month, a teacher in Hunan province was arrested for killing four students and wounding 12; two weeks later a man in Beijing was arrested for killing a six-year-old and stuffing him into the school's washing machine. The violence stalking the land of one-child families is not confined to the lower grades...
...workers and farmers. But the film is remarkable because it offers a rare look at North Korean daily lives?and because its very existence seems to contradict the regime's policy of nearly total isolation. A State of Mind offers scenes of indoctrination in action as a "revolutionary-history" teacher exhorts junior high school students to hate the U.S. and drills them on Kim Il Sung's "three types of greatness." (The correct answers: greatness in ideology, greatness in leadership and greatness in aura.) And we observe a mother cheerfully cooking breakfast as a wall-mounted radio?which...
...year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility I need," says Hunt. "The workload is the same, but I can do it anywhere. It's nicer to ask a question face-to-face with a teacher, but in some ways it prepares me better for college because I have to be more independent." A year ago, Hunt's world junior ranking was 886; now it's 108. Virtual high schools, which allow students to take classes via PC, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative...
...teachings throughout Japan. If you're planning to spend any length of time in the country, why not try it for yourself? To hit the tatami mats, you'll need keikogi, the pajama-like training wear (about $75), a reasonable degree of fitness, and, as Peter Rehse, a Canadian teacher of aikido in the city of Himeji, advises, "an open mind. Leave all your preconceptions of martial arts at the dojo's door." Check out these recommended schools...
Rosenblum said she has known Mansfield since her years as an undergraduate at Radcliffe and expressed admiration for his accomplishments as a teacher and philosopher...