Online Education News Archive
17-Apr-2009
FISD eases online education (Friendswood Journal)
Friendswood Independent School District has a program that makes it easy to take high-quality, noncredit online courses. Snakes on the plane on Australian flight (Guardian Unlimited)
Life imitates cult movie as snakes escape on an Australian plane, forcing cancellation of two flights Samuel L Jackson was nowhere to be seen and blood-curdling deaths were fortunately thin on the ground, but there definitely were snakes on the plane. In scenes reminiscent of the cult movie, four baby pythons escaped on a passenger plane in Australia, leading to a prolonged search of the ... Rosetta Stone IPO Soars (US News & World Report)
Is the IPO market coming around? Behaviour guru calls for quizzes in school classrooms (Guardian Unlimited)
From reintroducing national service to bringing back the cane, most suggestions for tackling bad behaviour in schools would dismay the nation's youth. Yesterday the former headteacher appointed by the government as its behaviour guru came up with a more agreeable one: get recalcitrant pupils playing quiz shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in class, said Sir Alan Steer, and they will ... Radio review (Guardian Unlimited)
Six Minutes Past Three (BBC Radio Merseyside) was a sombre documentary for the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough. There were the voices of two survivors, and archive news footage from the day. The survivors' stories, though calmly told and unembellished with fancy production, contained stinging, terrible details. One survivor recalled the terrifying reality of being crushed in the crowd. "If I ...
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