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School uniforms can range in glamour from the over starched bane of a student's existence to the oversexed star of a music video. In Great Britain, they're used as a tool with which girls explore their sexuality, and this is causing an ass-ache for educators. More »
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You'd think, after the furor that surrounded teacher Natalie Munroe's blog-related firing, that those in the pedagogical professions might give social networking a wide birth. Not so Catholic school teacher Elizabeth Cucinotta, who, with her cousin launched what she terms "Facebook for Angry People." The site, "Burn and Rot in Hell," allows users to rant about everything from exes to bosses. And, perhaps unfortunately for Cucinotta, there's a section devoted to "students" and one for "teachers." It's hard to know whether the school, Queens' St. Francis Prep, would have objected so strenuously had the creators omitted these categories. Or, for that matter, if Cucinotta had been less defiant. More »
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A now-classic study found something curious: when they posed 5th graders with tough problems, the brightest girls were the quickest to give up. And apparently not much has changed. More »
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Some Arizona schools are going to be weighing and measuring students — and sending notes home to the parents of those who are overweight. More »
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Researchers surveyed students studying abroad and found most double their alcohol consumption while in foreign lands. Psychologists attribute this to lower drinking ages and cultural misperceptions like, "Germans drink all the time" — so don't tell college kids about Oktoberfest. More »
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According to researchers, American children are getting smarter, but they are also getting less creative. Is there anything we can do about this crisis of creativity? More »
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Yesterday the Columbia Missourian (staffed by students at the Missouri School of Journalism) published a really excellent, extremely sad, piece on a student who just graduated, but was forced to spend her senior year reeling in the aftermath of rape. More »
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Andrea sent us a link to a post at Carpe Diem about the growing sex gap in college degrees. Current Department of Education estimates have women earning over 60% of all college degrees within 8 years: More »
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a biological sciences major from Gary, Indiana, and the University of Notre Dame's first African-American valedictorian. [ND Today] More »
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You know what's kind of funny about sexuality? It's surprisingly tough to talk about. Sex, that's easy (although certainly you could argue that, well, why talk about it…) Actions are simple and straightforward like that. More »
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Students at Bard College have started a blog called Boobs@Bard, which (you guessed it) hosts pictures of topless co-eds. Harvard now has their own spin-off. Is this a symptom of our hypersexual culture, or a brave step towards body acceptance? More »
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Right before Valentine's Day, my orthopedist decided that I should be hospitalized for tests. I'd been having crippling low-back pain for several weeks and the rest, pain medicine, and muscle relaxants he'd prescribed were not making me feel any better. More »
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What's to blame for the achievement gap between black and white schoolchildren? While an entry in the Guardian's Comment is Free blames black women for "feminising" boys, Essence magazine discovers that the problem is far more complicated. More »
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It's that time of the year, when Yale students discover out who among them is deemed attractive, thanks to the annual 50 Most Beautiful issue of student publication Rumpus. And here's a shocker: it's not exactly a diverse list. More »
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Stuart Cobb, a student at the University of Denver, has made sure he'll never get a date again by writing a tragically unfunny piece titled "Seven women you'll meet at DU." Stuart is practically fishing for scorn. I'll bite! More »
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As mentioned yesterday, two teachers from a Brooklyn school are under investigation, and now another teacher has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a male student. The Daily News has dubbed the newly-infamous school "Horndog High." [NYDailyNews] More »
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Researchers from Brigham Young University are worried about a new study that suggests students in coed dorms are more likely to binge drink, have multiple partners, and watch porn than those in same-sex housing. Sounds like...fun? [LiveScience] More »
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Ceara, an openly gay female student in Wesson, Mississippi, wore a tux in her yearbook photo; school officials are refusing to include the pic. "I'm paying for the yearbook. Why can't it be in there?" Ceara rightly asks. [WLOX] More »
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A 16-year-old boy withdrew from his school in Georgia after school officials told him to stop wearing his "feminine" clothes. They claim his outfit caused a fight, and told him to either dress more manly or get out. [UPI] More »
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A 12-year-old boy from the UK hopes to become the world's youngest sex-change patient. After he showed up as a girl for the first day of school, teachers called an assembly to explain the transformation to the other students. [DailyMail] More »
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"'Edupunk,' [Jim Groom] tells me in the opening notes of his first email, 'is about the utter irresponsibility and lethargy of educational institutions and the means by which they are financially cannibalizing their own mission.'" More »
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A new study found that the number of alcohol-related deaths, incidences of drunk driving, and heavy drinking episodes have all been creeping up among college-aged kids. The increase was seen among the 21-24 age group, but not 18-20. [EurekAlert] More »
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Chanequa Campbell, 21, is a Harvard student and sociology major who has won scholarships through Goldman Sachs, Coca Cola and The New York Times. She planned to graduate June 4th, but because of her alleged involvement in the murder of a local drug dealer, Campbell has been ordered off campus. More »
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Islamic militants continue to work to keep girls in Afghanistan from getting an education. In the past two weeks, there have been three separate attacks using poison, sending over 100 girls to the hospital. More »
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Thanks to the reader who tipped us off about the recent controversy over at Vassar College about a Men's Health-esque course titled "The Language of Ladies." More »
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An increasing number of public schools are experimenting with single-sex classrooms. Some critics worry it reinforces stereotypes, but is it worth it? More »
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Slate's Brian Braiker was horrified when a high school acquaintance uploaded and tagged an unflattering old picture of him on Facebook. Given this blast from my own past, I suppose I should feel his pain. More »
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Did you hear? Yesterday the Obama girls completed their first day of school at Sidwell Friends! The Washington Post has all the details: More »
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Millions and millions of people were cruelly tormented in high school, but how many of them sued their alma maters over it? Tatum Bass, a student at the $43K/year Miss Porter's, is suing for unspecified damages because of bullying, which resulted in overwhelming "emotional stress and anxiety" and caused her to "uncharacteristically" cheat on an art history test, a crime which she herself confessed to school brass. "The lawsuit said the school and Windsor inflicted long-term damage on Bass' academic career by notifying at least one college about the suspension without giving her a chance to offer her side. The expulsion threat soon followed for her 'unexcused absences' when she tried to complete her studies off-campus, a violation of school rules not detailed in the lawsuit." [AP via MSNBC] More »
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We know that the Obamas have chosen Sidwell Friends, a private school, for Sasha and Malia, but is it a good choice? Time magazine's Nancy Gibbs points out that the "first-rate" Quaker school educated Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore III and the Nixon girls and that "nearly four in 10 students are children of color." Also, writes Gibbs: More »
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It's sort of a sad state of affairs when there's been exponentially more conjecture and reportage about what kind of dog the Obama family will chose than what kind of school Malia and Sasha will attend. Maybe it says something unfortunate about our national priorities…but moving on, Politico is reporting that public school is still a possibility for the Obama family upon their move to Washington D.C. Sasha and Malia were privately educated in Chicago, but public school proponents believe that the President elect has a community obligation to educate his kids publicly. More »
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Ah, September. When the carefree days of summer give way to the pencils, notebooks and chalkboards of school. And is there any more lasting memory from those days than the Official School Portrait? This installment of Past Fashion was wildly popular: More than one hundred of you submitted photos. So many shining faces, full of hope, innocence, curiosity — and in some cases, contempt! Looking through the pictures submitted, a few things stood out: A lot of people cut their own bangs. Many young ladies had very "interesting" clothing choices, from the fun (t-shirt with Snoopy playing tennis) to the professional (pink blazer with shoulder pads). After the jump, you'll see: Giant glasses, missing teeth, messy hair, neon laser backgrounds and plenty of pigtails. Oh, and one "tiny gay sailor." Hurry, before the bell rings! More »
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"In those days," George Orwell writes of his bleak boarding school experience in the early 20th century, "[bed wetting] was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating." But according to the Economist, even the brutal Brits of Orwell's youth might be going slack, as corporal punishment by parents and school teachers against children has been widely banned in Europe and parts of South America. But in the good old U.S. of A, spanking is still A-Ok, as parents and teachers are still allowed to give unruly children a swift swat on the rear. Didja know that it's up to each state to decide whether or not to allow teachers to physically punish schoolchildren, and that, in the 22 states that allow it, nearly 300,000 children were beaten last year? More »
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All the freaking out about the "boy crisis " in public schools, i.e. the notion that boys are under-performing academically, is apparently over nothing: a new study reports that "both sexes have stayed the same or improved on standardized tests in the past decade," according to the Washington Post. The conclusions made by the American Association of University Women, which analyzed data from the past forty years, are that girls score higher on reading assessments but that the gap is narrowing; boys generally do better on math tests, a gender gap that has remained constant; and students from low-income families ($37,000 or less) do the worst on standardized tests, regardless of gender. However, girls still have higher GPAs, and 57% of bachelor degrees earned since 1982 have been awarded to women. Men continue to out earn women though — regardless of race or class. That superior GPA is doing us a lot of good in the workplace! [Washington Post] More »
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Melissa Bruen, the outgoing editor-in-chief of the UConn Daily Campus decided to write a first-person essay about her sexual assault as her last act as EIC. In late April, UConn had its annual spring weekend — a drunken rite that occurs at most colleges during the hazy end of spring semester. Bruen was walking home from parties at off-campus apartments on a path affectionately known to Huskies as "rape trail." She decided to make a phone call, and, as she was leaning against a telephone pole, a large man shoved her against the pole and "dry humped" her. Bruen, who had been assaulted before, decided to take action. She pushed him away, and when she had him pinned to the ground, punched him smack in the face. A group of men who had been watching this all go down eventually pulled Bruen off her assailant, who ran off. She started screaming, "He just assaulted me," and that's when one of the violence voyeurs said to her, "You think that was assault?", pulled down her shirt, and grabbed her breasts. More »
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You see the gentlemen holding up a sign that reads "WE LOVE YALE SLUTS" right in front of the Yale Women's Center? That little stunt was a pledge prank for the school's Zeta Psi fraternity, and the Women's Center is now taking legal action against the frat for sexual harassment. The question of whether or not this was indeed harassment has been raised, since it was "just a joke" and the men never came in contact with any women. But I say: hell yes it's harassment! As someone who openly refers to herself as a "slut" and throws the term around rather lovingly, I have to say that it's not as benign when used by everyone. (It's kinda like how white people can't say "nigger.") And these Yale students should be smart enough to figure out that posing in front of the fucking Women's Center with such a sign would at the very least ruffle feathers. There's no two ways about it: They were intentionally being dicks. More »
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Many parents dream that their little girls will grow up and get into a good college. But these days, college campuses feature alcohol-soaked theme parties where the girls are scantily — or barely — clad. Party 101! According to ABC News, UCLA doctoral student Megan Holmes and a team of researchers reported from inside a total of 66 college parties to see what was really going on. "I had just graduated college so I had seen most of this stuff," Holmes says. "Most shocking to me was that women at themed parties kept dressing less and less. When I was in college there were themed parties, but I never saw girls just wearing lingerie or just a bra and panties, and that was pretty common." Holmes and the researchers were armed with Breathalyzers and surveys, obtaining results on the scene. They found that the more sexualized the party, the more women drank. In fact, the women outdrank the men in those situations. More »
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