Hawaii teachers fault 'No Child' law; candidates favor reforms (Honolulu Advertiser)
At Makaha Elementary, where many of the students are from families in poverty, the achievement is worth celebrating....more...National News RSS Feed (Harrow Times)
Business leaders have called for science graduates to be given a bursary of £1,000 to help boost the number of specialist workers as the UK gears up for a new "industrial revolution"....more... D-158 contract talks to resume next week (Northwest Herald)
HUNTLEY ? Although teachers union representatives have not provided any recent updates on contract negotiations with the District 158 school board, the two sides are scheduled to meet multiple times next week starting Monday....more... Coroner's interns get new perspective (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Cassandra Hauser is an intern, along with three other college students, at the Westmorland County Coroner's Office. The program was started in 1993 by Coroner Ken Bacha....more... Briefs (Aug. 14) (Needham Times)
Voter registration; photography contest; Children's Department blog; more. ...more... Jonathan Agnew column (BBC News)
"South Africa recovered from a hopeless situation"...more... England v S Africa: Fourth Test, day four as it happened (BBC News)
Rain strikes eight balls into England's chase of 197 on the fourth day of the final Test, play ending early with the total 0-0....more... Mitchell's exile made him hungry (FOXSPORTS.com.au)
REBORN Australia full-back Drew Mitchell has revealed how a 12-month exile from international rugby helped rejuvenate his Test career....more... Letters: Parenting (Independent)
Hurrah for your editorial (6 August) on the long hours that parents, or a single parent, spend at work away from their children. It is an unpopular message, and the editorial writer seems already to be trying to make it more palatable by declaring that the blame may really lie with ministers who have given primacy to paid work, rather than with working parents. ...more... |