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MANILA, Philippines - Bandits have seized about 75 hostages, including elementary school students and teachers, from a village in the southern Philippines, an official said. Vice Gov. Santiago Cane Jr. of Agusan del Sur province said 19 gunmen entered the isolated hamlet of San Martin on Thursday, a day after authorities chased them away from a nearby village. He said police were pursuing the gunmen, who appeared to be using the hostages as human shields to escape.

Local Colleges Give Poor Grades to Proposal by Mayor Ravenstahl That Aims to Raise Money to Alleviate City's Pension Woes. BY KRIS MAHER PITTSBURGH -- Facing big unfunded pension liabilities for city workers, Pittsburgh is proposing what appears to be a one-of-a-kind 1% tuition tax on local university and college students, who claim the tax is illegal and unfair. More than 100 students filled Pittsburgh City Council chambers Monday morning, many bearing signs like "No Taxation Without Representation" to protest the tax, which, if passed this week, could become effective next year. "This is going to be a double taxation...

SOUTHWEST ASIA, Dec. 1, 2009 – Air Force Master Sgt. Linda Adams has been an elementary school teacher for the past four years. Air Force Master Sgt. Linda Adams, 746th Aircraft Maintenance Unit support section noncommissioned officer in charge, as well as an elementary school teacher, uses a blog to communicate with students in Mississippi during her deployment in Southwest Asia, Nov. 24, 2009. In addition to being an Air Force reservist, Adams is a teacher at Kate Shepard Elementary in Mobile, Ala. She is deployed from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason...

President Obama at a Shanghai town hall with students, as provided by the White House PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon. It is a great honor for me to be here in Shanghai, and to have this opportunity to speak with all of you. I'd like to thank Fudan University's President Yang for his hospitality and his gracious welcome. I'd also like to thank our outstanding Ambassador, Jon Huntsman, who exemplifies the deep ties and respect between our nations. I don't know what he said, but I hope it was good. (Laughter.) What I'd like to do is to make some opening...

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (KMOX Radio) -- Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a demonstration at Washington University against socialism was making some students uncomfortable. Students cutting across the campus on a warm fall day heard the Soviet National Anthem in the breeze, coming from loud speakers inside a makeshift prison camp complete with a high-wire fence, blood-stained inmates and goose-stepping guards in Soviet-era uniforms. Organizer Dirk Doebler of the conservative group Young Americans for Liberty says the goal was to show a "liberal-leaning" campus the ugly history of socialism.

Many of you are really good with visual presentations. Wade Rathke is giving a speech at Springfield College on the ninth. We will be protesting outside the hall. We want to pass out a flier depicting a professor re-distributing grades from hard working students to slackers; this as a clear example how socialism and "social justice" works. I am not good with art or drawing! If anyone out there has a cartoon or diagram similar to this, I would appreciate your sharing it with us as we are trying to change minds and influence the thoughts of the future generation.

Students at Howenstine High Magnet School will be collecting donations for troops serving in Afghanistan as part of Make a Difference Day. But the students' efforts are not a one-day deal. Instead, Corrine Blum's service learning class decided to adopt a Marine unit as a yearlong project. They sent a box of letters and personal items to the troops last month and are now planning to adopt an Army unit. The project began when Blum told her students she was planning to send a package to a family friend serving in Afghanistan. She asked her students if they wanted to...

So my son was slouching at his desk in his reading class. The teacher comes up and says " If Obama walked in this class right no, what do you think he'd think about you?". My son answered..."That I'm slouching?" Teacher.."But what do you think he'd think ABOUT you?" Son.." That I'm being lazy?" Teacher.." and don't you want to make Pres. Obama proud? Don't you want to please him?" I was stunned..I bust out laughing because it sounds so silly! I told my son I'm glad he didn't smart off about Obama because she is grading him, but that...

Two 15-year-old boys at a £28,000-a-year public school have been accused of serious sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl. They allegedly attacked the fellow pupil at Wellington College in view of classmates during a school disco.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2009 – Defense Department schools are stressing studies in science, technology, engineering and math in keeping with 21st century needs, the head of the Department of Defense Education Activity’s science program said yesterday. “There’s a huge shortage of people choosing to go in those fields, so at DoDEA, we really are working to promote more students to have an interest in choosing those opportunities as a career,” Kim Day said in an interview on the weekly “Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military” podcast. Some 90,000 students attend 191 DoDEA schools around the world....

Watch a live student town hall with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Rep. Ron Paul from the University of Minnesota, hosted by Young Americans for Liberty and sponsored by the Minnesota Campaign for Liberty, Republican Party of Minnesota, Minneapolis City Republican Committee, College Republicans, CFACT, and Students for a Conservative Voice. [Click Here to Watch] (Windows Media Player required) From 8pm EST . *takes seat* :)

A university leader has caused controversy by saying curvy female students are a "perk of the job". Terence Kealey, of the University of Buckingham, said lecturers were aware of females who "flaunted their curves". In a tongue-in-cheek article for Times Higher Education Magazine on the seven deadly sins of academia, he advised academics to "look but not touch". The National Union of Students condemned the comments as insulting and disrespectful to women. Dr Kealey, a clinical bio-chemist and vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, likened the classroom to a lap dancing club and said admiring the curves of attractive students could help...

Students have no opinion on health careReporter's questions about major debate fall on deaf ears Molly Carpenter Issue date: 9/17/09 On Sunday night, I went to the Dean B. Ellis library in search of students who would be willing to give me a quote, or their personal opinion, on the ongoing health care reform debate that has taken hold of Washington D.C. In the wake of this national debate, there are people throughout this country who are outraged and those who are passionate about the possibilities of a government controlled health care system. In fact, it was only a few...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today. The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday. Brandon Dutcher is with the conservative think tank and said the group wanted to find out how much civic knowledge Oklahoma high school students know.

Dropouts Seek a Boost From Equivalency Exams Numbers Seeking a Degree Swell -- But Gains May Be Limited A growing number of Americans are taking high school equivalency tests in their hunt for any leg up in a bleak labor market. Adult-education centers across the country report backlogs and waiting lists for prep courses cramming dozens of topics and years of lessons into weeks or months. But the potential for a better job and pay that drives many to seek a General Educational Development diploma comes with a caveat: The certificate generally is of limited value unless students use it...

Second-graders at French Run Elementary in Reynoldsburg (Ohio) eat lunch as President Obama's speech is projected onto a large screen (not visible in this photo) from a live C-SPAN feed.

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN DISCUSSION WITH 9TH GRADERS Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia

President Reagan marked the beginning of American Education Week and spoke to school students in the East Room of the White House. He talked about the foundations of American government, the values of democracy, and the regard for the United States held by other countries. He also answered questions from the students. The event was telecast in several classrooms throughout the country.

Superintendent Says He's Ordered Students To Watch Address NEW ORLEANS -- Orleans Parish School Board Superintendent Darryl Kilbert said Friday he's ordering teachers, staff and students to watch President Obama's address designated for schools on Sep. 8. The directive impacts students and staff at four Orleans parish schools. And the Superintendent said he's encouraging charter schools within the district to allow students to watch President's address. “Not only will the President’s speech address civic engagement and personal responsibility, both pillars of Louisiana education goals, it will also allow our students to participate in interdisciplinary lessons and discussions,” Kilbert said. The...

"I think we've reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can't tell kids in school to study hard and stay in school," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. "I think both political parties agree that the dropout rate is something that threatens our long-term economic success." But critics objected to the language of one of the lesson plans, for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 6, that suggested that students "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president." Another assignment for students after hearing the speech was to discuss...

Our Organizer-in-Chief will address students across America come September 8. In preparation for that teaching moment, Teaching Ambassador Fellows at the Department of Education have prepared a Menu of Classroom Activities to prepare the kiddies. Here are a few of the leading questions: Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials ...? Why is what they say important? What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do?

We all know we should be wary of viral videos and forwarded emails or messages -- well, everyone except my dad, unfortunately. (Love you Dad, but you have to be more discerning!) It often turns out that the info imparted is not entirely accurate, if at all.So here's the latest video that was passed on to me by a friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piuoGb-Nhfw As someone who would have loved to have been that student, and fully believes we should never fear  standing up -- I have to report that according to Snopes (yes, I know they're left-leaning, but they're pretty reliable although the snarky...

I'm speechless.

I'd like to know just exactly what Obama intends to say to all these little kids. I suspect that it will be indoctrination and propaganda, pure and simple. I've contacted a friend on the local school board. I won't be surprised if he doesn't even know about this.

President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009 PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education September 8, 2009 Before the Speech: • Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions: Who is the President of the United States? What do you think it takes to be President? To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking? Why do...

David Lee Metzler, 19 years old, and Heidi Lynn Childs, 19 years old, both of Lynchburg, VA were found by a passerby this morning at approximately 8:00 a.m. in the area of Caldwell Fields off of Craig’s Creek Road in Montgomery County. Both were deceased when they were found. The preliminary investigation revealed that both victims had gunshot wounds. Both were Virginia Tech students living off campus.

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — Some people will walk up to Marines in public and shake their hands to say ‘thank you’ for their service. Others take it a few steps further by saying their thanks on hundreds of feet of paper. George and Shirley Jackson of Denton, Md., have been mailing scrolls of thanks to deployed troops for nearly 15 years. Most recently, they sent a 521-foot scroll of patriotic messages of thanks to Marines here. Messages like “Thank you for your service,” or “You rock and watch out for missiles,” cover just about every inch. The scroll was posted...

A handful of students were sent home from Florida schools this week after showing up in shirts proclaiming that "Islam is of the Devil," part of a fiery church campaign to "expose" Islam as a religion of violence. Three high schoolers were forced to leave Tuesday for wearing the shirts made by the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., where school officials say violated the district's dress codes. A middle schooler was also asked to change clothes because of the shirt, which got a 10-year-old fifth grader sent packing on Monday, when the incidents began. "Students have a right...

The US Department of Justice has launched an inquiry into Boston’s failure to provide necessary language instruction to thousands of students who speak limited English, a violation of federal law that has the district scrambling to hire teachers and expand programs for this fall.

Hello fellow patriots! Consider attending, feel free to pass the invitation. "Government versus Liberty" Feel a little choked out by big government? Join students of Western and Southern Connecticut in collectively exercising what all hard-working, principled Americans do every day -- personal sovereignty. Please help support Connecticut's students for liberty. A procession will sweep a section of Main Street Danbury on August 29th, handing out fliers and inviting the media; while picking up litter to prevent a Federal Bureaucracy from legislating its way into your lives with a fateful War on Trash. Join us in telling government that Americans can...

Three Americans who were arrested after crossing into Iran have been accused of being spies, according to a local report. Tehran-based television news channel al-Alam quoted an Iraqi police officer as saying the trio were “working with the CIA.” The Swiss Embassy in Tehran was working to learn more about the Americans' fate through its contacts with the Iranian Foreign Ministry, spokeswoman Nadine Olivieri said. Switzerland represents U.S. interests in Iran. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here It also emerged that an American linguistics student traveling in northern Iraq didn't go on an ill-fated hiking trip because he...

I am tyring to find a video of a news article of Al Gore in the 1996 Presidential Campaign telling Students from a FFA Group {Future Farmers of America} that they need to find a new career due to upcoming U.S. polocies shifting farming to overseas locations / countries. Can anyone help? pacrattsview@yahoo.com

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The California State University system raised student fees Tuesday by 20 percent as part of a budget plan that would also shrink enrollment and furlough nearly all employees for two days a month. The Board of Trustees voted 17-1 to raise undergraduate fees by $672 a year to $4,827 in the nation's largest four-year university system. The fee increase, which follows a 10 percent hike approved in May, is part of the 23-campus system's plan to close a $584 million budget shortfall caused by an unprecedented drop in state funding to CSU, which has with...

Several of the students had a knee-jerk reaction when gun-rights advocate Clark Aposhian blasted his first pistol round into a target Thursday. But it was physical, not ideological. These students from around America were in Salt Lake City to learn and test their beliefs, not to dismiss opposing views. Roughly 40 Jewish high schoolers traveling the country are hearing from experts on opposing sides of the nation's most politically charged issues. Aposhian was the National Rifle Association's face for the day after the group's stop in Colorado to hear from a gun-control advocate whose child died in the Columbine school...

<p>ELK GROVE, Calif. — A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch.</p> <p>Officials at the Elk Grove Unified School District asked families of the teacher's 24 students to get rid of the DVD after the unintended clip was found spliced in a scene where children were sharing stories in class.</p>

Video shows the sentiments on the ground at Sharif University in Tehran, when Ahmadinejad is taunted on his way out. Chants of “Ahmadi bye bye!” “liar” and “death to the dictator” can be heard, as well as MOUSAVI.

The list below are the names of the students within the respective universities who were taken into custody and posted: University of Tehran - Ahmad Ahmadian, Eskandari, Amin Afzali, Vahid Anari, Mohamad Belourdi, Hossien Hamedi, Mohsen Habibi Mazaheri, Navid Haghdaadi, Mohamad Reza Hakami, Kazem Rahimi, Morteza Rezakhaani, Meissam Zeraai, Amin Sami'i, Bahram Shabani, Alireza Sheikhi, Ebrahim Azizi, Siavash Fiaz, Seyed Hossein Mirzadeh, Hossein Nobakht, Javad Yazdanfar, Habib khadangi, Sohrab Ahdian Reza Arkavazi, Karim Emami, Mohamad Hossein Emami, Elaheh Imanian, Roohollah bagheri, Farhad Binazadeh, Iman Pourtahmasseb, Ezat Tarbati, Simeh Tohidlou, Yasser Jaffari, Milad Chegini, Mohamad Reza Had abadi, Seyed Javad Hosseini,...

The video at the end was posted some hours ago and is a recent view of a Tehran demonstration. With that said let me take offense at the talking heads, mostly on CNN, who insist the Iran protesters are NOT against the regime but want a "vote recount"! But then again, even Fox News has little clue who they bring on to give opinion, including Mullah shill Trita Parsi, known for his bias to the islamic regime and long practised disinformation skills that flavor words with Mullah talking points. What vote recount? From already opened ballot boxes? Boxes already compromised...

The Supreme Court took the side of parents of children with disabilities today, ruling that they can claim reimbursement for the cost of private schooling if the public system failed to offer an appropriate program for their child. The 6-3 decision settles a heated and costly dispute that has arisen across the country. It also deals a potentially expensive setback to public school systems that are strapped for money. At issue was who must pay the cost if parents of a child with a disability withdraw him from public school and send him to a private school. In a case...

The soaring costs of a college degree are prompting colleges to consider a three-year degree program. Britain has long granted a degree for three years of college. I would like to suggest a one-year degree program. And I don’t mean an associate’s degree. Here are some hard facts most colleges will never tell you and most parents could not tolerate hearing. The general requirements of the first two years at most colleges are what high school should have been. That is what junior should have learned had he not been busy getting high, getting drunk, and being socially promoted. Better...

Melbourne, May 31 (PTI) As Australian authorities face flak over a series of attacks on Indian students here, leading members of the community today spoke out against branding the country as "racist" and said the government should be given some time to resolve the problem. At the same time, they expressed their deep concern over the security issues of Indian students. Insisting that Australia was not a "racist" country and all attacks were not racist in nature, Sydney-based cardiologist Yadu Singh said "We believe that this is not the correct picture of the unfortunate events." "Most of the attacks are...

India's representative in Australia says her government is appalled by a spate of violent attacks on Indian students and has warned many are now reconsidering coming to the country. High Commissioner Sujatha Singh met with the Victorian government and police on Friday in an emergency meeting following two more stabbing attacks on Indian students in Melbourne this week. One of the attacks left Sravan Kumar Theerthala, 24, in a coma and fighting for his life in hospital. Regular attacks have been occurring for several years on students travelling alone in public or working as taxi drivers and in convenience stores....

SEATTLE — Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade student — the father of her two youngest children — are hosting a "Hot for Teacher" night at a Seattle nightclub. Letourneau, now 47, served 7 1/2 years in prison after she was convicted of raping Vili Fualaau, now 26. They were married four years ago this week. The bar's owner said Letourneau has served her sentence, she's married her former student, and it's OK for them to have some fun on a Saturday night.

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2009 – In a quest to expand their understanding of the world they live in, a group of California high school seniors turned away from their textbooks to indulge in “Three Cups of Tea” and a video conference with an Army colonel. Army Col. Christopher Kolenda, a former task force commander in Afghanistan, answers California high school seniors’ questions from the Pentagon during a video conference May 18, 2009. Kolenda worked with the author of “Three Cups of Tea” to help to get schools built in Afghanistan. DoD photo by Samantha L. Quigley  (Click photo for screen-resolution...

Study: US Students Lagging In Biosciences Students Showing Less Interest, Report Says COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Middle and high school students across the country are generally falling behind in life sciences, and the nation is at risk of producing a dearth of qualified workers for the fast-growing bioscience industry, according to a report released Monday. Students are showing less interest in taking life sciences and science courses, and high schools are doing a poor job of preparing students for college-level science, says the report, funded and researched by Columbus, Ohio-based Battelle, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and the Biotechnology Institute.

www.catholicnewsagency.com Conference planned to help students ‘speak the truth’ on natural marriage San Diego, Calif., May 16, 2009 / 04:40 am (CNA).- A student conference on the importance of marriage and its defense is scheduled to take place this August in San Diego. It aims to bring together students and faculty who support natural marriage to help educate and motivate a new generation.The conference, titled “It takes a family to raise a village,” is co-sponsored by the Ruth Institute and the National Organization for Marriage. It will be held at the University of San Diego from August 6 to...

Chicago - busy putting on its best face to garner a 2016 Olympics bid and basking in the afterglow of President Obama's election - has become the nation's most violent city for youths. With three weeks left before summer break, a record 36 Chicago Public Schools students have been killed this school year, marking the third straight year that youth homicides have climbed into double digits. Chicago has surpassed New York City and Los Angeles for having the highest youth homicide rate in the nation. "I think people in Chicago have almost gotten numb to the statistics," said Dexter Voisin,...

College students around the country are starting to get organized. Speakers Phyllis Schafly, Representative Aaron Schock, Representative Aaron Schock and Keynote Speaker Tim Pawlenty are amount the guest.

Mass texting among “thousands” of Boston Public Schools students fueled a high-tech hooky Tuesday, as throngs of students skipped class for sunny Revere Beach. The coordinated flash truancy blindsided cops and school officials and led to widespread chaos and crime in the beach town, authorities said. The idea to skip school on the warmest day of the year went viral for the first time thanks to social networking Web sites, online instant messengers and text messages that can send mass instructions with a mere click. By noon, hordes of middle and high school students - who either slipped out of...

A teacher who worked at two Queens yeshivas and a Long Island elementary school was arrested after cops found child pornography on his home computer, cops said yesterday. Two online tipsters told state police that Timothy Holt, 44, of Baldwin, sent child pornography over the Internet last month. Cops seized the divorced father's computer and allegedly found nine videos and pictures depicting sexually explicit images of children. Holt, who pleaded not guilty to felony child-pornography raps on Friday, worked as a third-grade teacher's assistant at the Birch Elementary School in Merrick and taught Earth science at Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim and...