Economics. Catholic. Is Abstinence-Only Sex Education Too Explicit? According to surprising new federal report, which was released late on Friday so that no one would know about it, and only after Congress insisted, abstinence-only sex education classes have had "no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence. " Apparently, kids who enrolled in these programs were just as likely to have sex as other kids. Unfortunately, this study comes at a bad time for abstinence-only advocates in the Bush Administration.
Wade Horn, the unfortunately named point man for the administration on abstinence-only education, just resigned after overseeing a huge increase in funding for the program to over $200 million and already those who want to turn our kids into a generation of hos are bouyant. "After 10 years and $1.5 billion in public funds these failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs will go down as an ideological boondoggle of historic proportions," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth. Share This Post. The Lost Nintendo Sex Ed. Tape. Japanese Fanta Commericals Fantasubbed. U.S.
Elementary-school students shouldn't do homework. By Emily Bazelon. Over the last decade, Japanese schools have been scrapping homework while American elementary schools have been assigning more of it. What gives—aren't they supposed to be the model achievers while we're the slackers? No doubt our eagerness to shed the slacker mantle has helped feed the American homework maw. But it may be the Japanese, once again, who know what they're doing. Such is my conclusion after reading three new books on the subject: The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish; The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn; and the third edition of The Battle Over Homework by Duke psychology professor Harris Cooper.
If you already despise homework, Bennett and Kalish provide advice on how to plead with teachers and schools for mercy. Cooper is one of Kohn's main foils and a leading scholar on the subject, so I picked up his book expecting to find a convincing counterargument defending homework. Ernie Breaks The Cookie Jar. Can College Still Help You Get Ahead? MSN home Mail My MSN encarta greeting cards encarta ® The MSN Encarta page you are trying to visit has been discontinued. If you are looking for dictionary content, please visit MSN Encarta Dictionary in US English , World English , or French . Advertisement MSN Privacy Legal Advertise Feedback Help. Carson school board eyes restrictions on pagan symbols. Ohio Expected to Rein In Class Linked to Intelligent Design. Tutor Program Offered by Law Is Going Unused. The Prodigy Puzzle. Kansas State Board Votes to Teach Intelligent Design in Schools. The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject.
Moderator: We're here today to debate the hot new topic, evolution versus Intelligent Des--- (Scientist pulls out baseball bat.) Moderator: Hey, what are you doing? (Scientist breaks Intelligent Design advocate's kneecap.) Intelligent Design advocate: YEAAARRRRGGGHHHH! YOU BROKE MY KNEECAP! Scientist: Perhaps it only appears that I broke your kneecap. Intelligent Design advocate: AAAAH! Scientist: Frankly, I personally find it completely implausible that the random actions of a scientist such as myself could cause pain of this particular kind. Intelligent Design advocate: YOU BASTARD! Scientist: I surely do not. Intelligent Design advocate: That's a load of bullshit sophistry! Scientist (turning to audience): And so we see, ladies and gentlemen, when push comes to shove, advocates of Intelligent Design do not actually believe any of the arguments that they profess to believe.
UPDATE' (22 Oct.): Two further clarifying points, since this page unexpectedly got linked rather widely (more...). Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory. KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling. Rev. Gabriel Burdett explains Intelligent Falling. "Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.
Burdett added: "Gravity—which is taught to our children as a law—is founded on great gaps in understanding. Founded in 1987, the ECFR is the world's leading institution of evangelical physics, a branch of physics based on literal interpretation of the Bible. Revised Science Textbooks for Christians. Queenofstripes: Back In My Day, We Didn't Even Have A Concept Of Time. 039;s Writ - Dean: The Telling Tale Of The Twenty-seventh Amendment. On September 24, 1789, in the first-ever effort to amend the new Constitution, Congress submitted to the states twelve amendments designed to resolve problems that had arisen during the ratification debates.
By 1791, ten of these, relating to individual rights and liberties - the "Bill of Rights" - had been adopted. But two, relating to the structure and operations of the legislative branch, were passed over. The second, however, was awakened after a two-hundred-year snooze, and is now part of the Constitution. Now called the Twenty-seventh Amendment, it places limitations on Congress' increasing its members' compensation without an intervening election.
This Rip Van Winkle amendment's revival is a telling tale on many levels - yet one that is little known. It was a student, interestingly, who found the sleeping amendment, and pursued the work started two hundred years earlier by James Madison and the First Congress. The Two Sleeping Amendments: Congressional Apportionment and Pay Why?
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism, a movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools.[3] Although adherents describe Pastafarianism as a genuine religion,[3] it is generally seen by the media as a parody religion.[4][5] The "Flying Spaghetti Monster" was first described in a satirical open letter written by Bobby Henderson in 2005 to protest the Kansas State Board of Education decision to permit teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes.[6] In that letter, Henderson satirized creationist ideas by professing his belief that whenever a scientist carbon-dates an object, a supernatural creator that closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs is there "changing the results with His Noodly Appendage".
History Internet phenomenon Positions Creation Afterlife Pirates and global warming. Women 'take back seat' in science. The path for women in science remains a "difficult trek", according to a group of US researchers writing in the latest edition of Science magazine. They say that although there have been major advances, academic institutions are still not making full use of the pool of women scientists available. Female scientists sometimes find the campus environment "chilly" and may encounter "unconscious discrimination". They also face the extra challenge of balancing home and family life. "The good news is we have made progress," said lead author Jo Handelsman, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US. "The bad news is we still have a long way to go to achieve equity. " 'Challenges' Professor Handelsman and her colleagues believe there are a range of challenges that can derail women and prevent them from fulfilling their full academic potential.
"There is still a lot of covert and overt hostility on American campuses," she said. We Will Teach Our Twisted Speech. John Derbyshire (c/o rakehell) raises an interesting quandary: Given that the four London suicide bombers were all raised -- in at least one case, born and raised -- in Britain, the quintessential liberal democracy; and given that the entire premise of current U.S. policy is that we can end suicide bombing and other terrorism by bringing liberal democracy to the Middle East; shouldn't we be re-thinking our policy?
Given the debates I've had with boffo and others of late as to the U.S.'s role in the Middle East, this got me thinking. I did some quick research. Mohammed Atta al Sayed, one of the hijackers who flew a plane into the World Trade Center, was born in Egypt and got a degree in architecture from Cairo University. Marwan al-Shehhi, who met Atta in Germany, was born in the United Arab Emirates. Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the U.S. charged in connection with the World Trade Center attacks, has a master's degree from South Bank University in London. NEA Wants To Save Schools, Demands Raise In Educator's Starting Salary. The Teenager's Guide to the Real World Table of Contents. 12560931_6246357501_b.jpg (JPEG Image, 929x1024 pixels) - Scaled (61%) France holds 'Chameleon' impostor. A 31-year-old serial impostor who passed himself off for a whole month as a schoolboy - aged 15 - is being questioned by police in France.
Frederic Bourdin, nicknamed "the Chameleon", attended the Jean Monnet school in Pau posing as "Francisco Hernandez-Fernandez", a Spanish orphan. A teacher unmasked him last week after having watched a television programme about his exploits. Bourdin was jailed in the US in 1997 for posing as a couple's long-lost son. The Texas couple's 14-year-old blue-eyed son had disappeared three years earlier and they travelled to the US embassy in Spain to meet "Nicholas Barclay". Bourdin convinced them that he was their son, despite his brown eyes and strong French accent. He lived with them for three months before his deception was exposed by a journalist and confirmed by a DNA test. Attention-seeking Commenting on his latest exploit, Bourdin said that in Pau he got what he wanted. He is said to have assumed numerous other identities.