U.S. Middle Schools to Promote Tolerance
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Using a young readers' novel called "The Misfits" as its centerpiece, middle schools nationwide will participate in a "No Name-Calling Week" initiative starting Monday. The program, now in its second year, has the backing of groups from the Girl Scouts to Amnesty International but has also drawn complaints that it overemphasizes harassment of gay youths.
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A health teacher at Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring spoke to eighth-graders yesterday about sexual orientation. And so began a pilot program in Montgomery County schools that delves deeper into issues of sexual and gender identity than most other school systems in the Washington region, if not...
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U.S. mosques face the challenges of adapting a conservative, foreign-grown Islamic ideology to an American setting.
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In many schools, girls who want to wrestle must practice with, and compete against, boys.
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LONDON: Schools need to take a "zero tolerance" approach towards the day-to-day disruptive behaviour which affects 10 per cent of secondary schools, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly said yesterday.
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Required exercise at 7 a.m. sharp. No personal televisions or computers. A cafeteria bereft of potato chips and candy bars but full of good-for-you vegetables. Mal Mahedy's new school has tons of rules that other teens would find intolerable.
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Religious leaders from around Southeast Asia and Australia are urging greater efforts to promote tolerance and understanding. They met in Indonesia to build inter-religious bridges to reduce the threat posed by extremists.
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The head of the Philadelphia school district has created a task force of religious leaders to establish closer ties with faith-based groups, a move critics say risks violating the separation between church and state.
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By Anne Brockman  The Broken Arrow Board of Education's decision to rescind an instruction policy will make way for fourth- and fifth-grade curriculum to take on a form of departmentalization.
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Leaders of New York City's Department of Education intend to create a new framework for competitive athletics in middle and elementary schools.
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Science education in U.S. elementary   and middle schools is overly broad and superficial, according   to a government report issued on Thursday that also faults   science curricula for assuming children are simplistic   thinkers.
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In the US the two religious groups, historically at odds, find new opportunities for dialogue and understanding.
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It&#39;s not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at a middle school here each morning. It&#39;s encouraged. The program makes it easier for kids squeezed for time to squeeze in breakfast.
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By The Associated Press  More than 100 policymakers, educators and business and community leaders from across the country will gather in West Virginia next week to discuss ways to marry business interests with classroom instruction.
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By Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 22--PORT NECHES -- A Nederland middle school math teacher is getting ready for a week of rocket building and space simulations with a sense of enthusiasm he hopes to bring back to the classroom this fall.
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Some reaction to the Supreme Court decision Thursday rejecting school integration plans in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle:
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Resolved: The US government should fund primary and secondary education in the United States. In the early 1970s, high school debating teams sparred on this issue, and James M. Poterba, then a member of the debating team at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pa., started thinking about tax policy and its impact.