Tenn. student suspended; said ‘bless you’ after sneeze
A Tennessee high school senior received an in-school suspension for saying "Bless you" to a classmate after the classmate sneezed.
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Select results from the European Society of Cardiology
AEDs in Paris, a pacemaker with no battery, energy drinks, and obese youth were on the agenda at the society's congress in Barcelona.
18th-century college students liked beer: archaeologists
US college students like beer. An archaeological find at the College of Wm and Mary may prove they liked it just as much before the Revolutionary War.
School shooters victimized by rejection, peers, teachers
New research (a meta-analysis) shows that students who become school shooters are victims of rejection and conflict.
Forensic evidence builds in hit & run death of teen
The search continues for a hit-and-run driver who killed a suburban Chicago teenager in March as he walked along I-88 in Western Illinois.
Seismic activity seizes Iceland & northern Calif.
Earth's tectonic plates have been busy crashing into each other these past few days; Wine Country in state of emergency.
Breadth of curriculum linked to race & class size
New research, again, links class size and race to a narrowing of the curriculum. Evidence is building the NCLB has caused some recent harm.
Some find no test score-GDP-productivity correlation
A report from ASCD finds no correlation between test scores and GDP, a result we would welcome if not for shoddy analysis by ASCD.
School gives a girl a hassle over distracting hair dye
With girls, it's often about the hair, and the case of red hair dye for an Alabama high school girl could spark a federal lawsuit.
Kids' neurons shift for math
New research provides some insights into how young children memorize math facts and may lead to other research about recruitment of key brain regions.