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High school athlete refuses to wrestle female opponent
By admin on February 27, 2011 | Comments Off
A high school wrestler in wrestling-crazy Iowa forfeited a tournament match after refusing to grapple with a female opponent. Herkelman (20-13), a freshman, and Ottumwa, Iowa sophomore Megan Black (25-13) are the first two girls ever to qualify for the state individual tournament, which goes back to 1926.
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Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To SchoolBy admin on November 24, 2010 | Comments Off
mernilio writes “According to UPI: ‘A Massachusetts school district superintendent said a memo banning sixth graders from carrying pencils was written without district approval. North Brookfield School District interim Superintendent Gordon Noseworthy said Wendy Scott, one of two sixth-grade teachers at North Brookfield Elementary School, did not get approval from administrators before sending the memo to all sixth-grade parents, the Worcester Telegram (more…)
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MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooksBy admin on June 12, 2010 | Comments Off
An anonymous reader sends in this excerpt from the Salem News:
“A new program at Beverly High will equip every student with a new laptop computer to prepare kids for a high-tech future. But there’s a catch. The money for the $900 Apple MacBooks will come out of parents’ pockets. ‘You’re kidding me,’ parent Jenn Parisella said when she found out she’d have to buy her sophomore daughter, Sky, a new computer. ‘She has a laptop. Why would I buy her another (more…) -
Is your school this nuts about its spring game?By admin on May 6, 2010 | Comments Off
The Top 10 spring football game spectacles. In the words of Urban Meyer, “Go play golf or something.”
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Nintendo Developing DS Apps For School SystemsBy admin on March 20, 2010 | Comments Off
MojoKid writes “Shigeru Miyamoto, who has had a hand in some of Nintendo’s most popular titles, recently offered that he is working hard to turn Nintendo’s DS line of handheld gaming machines into tools for schools. The DS already has a nice line of educational software titles that help users learn, and he thinks that this could really be a huge benefit to schools looking for alternative ways to educate students of a new generation. The company has (more…)
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Gamer alerts police to prevent U.S. high school shootingBy admin on February 21, 2010 | Comments Off
A conversation a man had online with a stranger while playing an Xbox game raised some alarm bells, and the man’s quick thinking may have averted a high school shooting in Texas, police say.
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NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft MandateBy admin on January 25, 2010 | Comments Off
Dan Jones writes “Kiwis have built an entire school IT system out of open source software, in less than two months, despite a deal between the New Zealand government and Microsoft that effectively mandates the use of Microsoft products in the country’s schools. Albany Senior High School in the northern suburbs of Auckland has been running an entirely open source infrastructure since it opened in 2009. It’s using a range of applications like OpenOffice, (more…)
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A New School Teaches Students Through VideogamesBy admin on January 12, 2010 | Comments Off
A school uses videogame-based lessons to teach a new generation of kids
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Businessman Opens Marijuana School in MichiganBy admin on November 29, 2009 | Comments Off
A 24-year-old aspiring businessman says he’s teaching Michigan residents how to grow medical marijuana at his new “Med Grow Cannabis College.”
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Michael Jordan’s Son Costs School Its Deal With AdidasBy admin on November 7, 2009 | Comments Off
UCF officials said that an adidas official had agreed to allow Michael Jordan’s younger son Marcus to wear the Nike shoes named after his father even though the school had a deal with competitor adidas. But Adidas officials, which were working on an extension on a deal with the athletic department, said that they never granted that exemption.
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