Schools Dump Textbooks for iPods, Laptops
By RACHEL MARTIN and CHRISTINE BROUWER Sept. 13, 2009 For generations, school meant books -- lots of books. But not anymore. Around the country, from high school to grad school, . Technology has made...
View ArticleAttendance in Schools Goes up as Flu Fears Ebb
DUBAI & ABU DHABI – Attendances in schools have started to pick up as fears of the pandemic A(H1N1) have started to go down. The books and pens were out to start the new academic year with...
View ArticleAttendance up as flu fears ebb
DUBAI & ABU DHABI – Attendances in schools have started to pick up as fears of the pandemic A(H1N1) have started to go down. Classes at Maarifa International School in Sharjah registered full...
View ArticleSaudi schoolgirl sentenced to get a 90-lash flogging
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A teenage girl has been sentenced to a 90-lash flogging and two months in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher, a Saudi judge said in an interview published yesterday....
View ArticleLast stand for opposition in Bolivia elections
By CARLOS VALDEZ and PAULA FLORES Associated Press Writer LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivian President Evo Morales seeks to take control of the last bastion of political opposition to his campaign to...
View ArticleLIBERIA: A village comes back to life
web NYEWOLIHUN, - The inhabitants of Nyewolihun village in northern Liberia almost escaped the civil war unscathed, but as the conflict entered its final phase, their village was attacked. Terrified,...
View ArticleDining Halls For Classrooms
Some Senior High Schools in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis will have to convert their libraries, dining and assembly halls into classrooms to enable them to accommodate first-year Senior High School...
View ArticleRobert Pattinson Makes Special Cameo in Boarding School Video
Robert Pattinson may be busy filming Breaking Dawn in Baton Rouge, La., but that doesn’t mean he isn’t having some fun on the side. The...
View ArticleMcILROY SUCCESS NO SURPRISE TO FORMER HEADMASTER
Rory McIlroy's former headmaster admits the Ulsterman's dominant victory at the US Open came as "no surprise". The 22-year-old cast aside any fears of a repeat of his Masters heartache in last night's...
View ArticleHeadmaster won't expel boy charged with rape
"I've got a lot of hate mail" ... Tim Hawkes, headmaster of The King's School. Photo: Wolter Peeters THE headmaster of The King's School has defended his decision not to expel a student charged with...
View ArticlePa. diocese: Educator changed name, hid NY firing
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The now-fired headmaster of a Pennsylvania Catholic school had changed his name and didn't disclose that he had been fired from another Catholic school because of his racist...
View ArticleHeadmaster Tony Abbott hands out the report cards
Illustration: michaelmucci.com There are many reasons people go into public life. A sense of civic duty. The oft-cited desire to "make a difference". And, for a teensy minority of politicians, the...
View ArticleHeadmaster at Nicholas Sparks-founded school files racial bias suit
The former headmaster of a school founded by Nicholas Sparks has filed suit in federal court against the bestselling author of "The Notebook" and other school officials alleging racial bias, the...
View ArticleEx-headmaster in Delaware accused of child porn
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- As he moved through the ranks of tony prep schools, Christopher Wheeler seemed right at home. An accomplished musician and composer who flew his own airplane, he seemed adept...
View ArticleSchool stunned after bizarre drug arrest of prep school headmaster
When they stepped inside the hotel room 13 miles east of Sacramento, deputies found the 54-year-old man reportedly surrounded by drugs and with a unconscious young woman. The bust Oct. 3 took an even...
View ArticleEx-headmaster guilty in child porn case
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A judge has convicted a former headmaster of an elite Delaware prep school on all 25 counts...
View ArticleCouple, four grandkids apparently dead in fire at Annapolis area mansion
The owners of an Annapolis-area mansion destroyed in a raging fire early Monday morning apparently perished along with their four grandchildren, according to a letter from the headmaster of the school...
View ArticleEx-school headmaster sentenced to 50 years for child porn
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- The former headmaster of an elite Delaware prep school founded by members of the du Pont family was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison for dealing in child pornography....
View ArticleHeadmaster - Official E3 2015 Trailer
Check out this "fooball improvement center" sim for the PS4....
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