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MEHTAR LAM, Afghanistan, March 30, 2006 – Afghan and coalition troops provided medical care to 1,500 people in Laghman and Nuristan provinces in recent operations. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kimberly M. Kauffman administers deworming medication to a child in Nangaresh, Afghanistan. Kauffman was part of an Afghan and coalition medical team that provided medical care and sanitation classes to men, women and children in seven villages in Laghman and Nuristan provinces March 19-24. Photo by Staff Sgt. Marti D. Ribeiro, USAF   At seven remote villages, men, women and children received treatment for ailments ranging from headaches to heartburn March 19-24....

It was 9:45 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. Jane Reiser's mathematics class in Room 18 was stuffed with sixth- and seventh-graders. There were 32 of them, way above the national class size average of 25. Every seat was filled -- 17 girls, 15 boys, all races, all learning styles. A teacher's nightmare. And yet, despite having so many students, Reiser's class was humming, with everybody paying attention. She held up a few stray socks to introduce a lesson on probabilities with one of those weird questions that interest 11- and 12-year-olds: If you reach into your sock drawer in the...

MOSCOW, November 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia proposed to introduce the basics of Orthodox culture as a new optional subject in Russian schools. “After 70 years of atheism we cannot and do not raise the question of teaching the Scripture in schools,” the patriarch said in a meeting with the clergy in Moscow on Wednesday. At the same time, he believes that the basics of Orthodox culture could be taught in schools as an optional subject if the children and their parents wish so. This subject “is already taught in the Belgorod and Kursk...

November 9, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — The White House yesterday began mandatory, hourlong briefings for an estimated 3,000 staffers on ethics and the handling of classified information in response to the indictment of a top official in the CIA leak investigation. Among those attending the first ethics briefing were some assistants to the president with top security clearances, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters. President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, was not among the first group, although he was expected to attend an ethics class later this week.

Iraqi Soldiers Enroll in Literacy Classes More than 780 students enrolled in 21 classes in a programdesigned to increase literacy in the Iraqi Army. By Greg Casaretto Gulf Region North U.S. Army Corps of Engineers SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, Nov. 4, 2005 — Under the previous Iraqi regime, the school system forced Kurdish people to attend institutes of learning where Arabic was the only language used in class. Many Kurdish children never learned to read and write in their language and typically, they were not successful students because Arabic schools did not offer Arabic as a second language. Consequently, the illiteracy...

...In the suburbs... the armed forces are welcomed for more than just visits. They're teaching ... classes. Two high schools in Federal Way will debut Air Force courses this fall. Students as young as 14 will wear uniforms, march in drills with decommissioned guns and get schooled in military history, customs and technology. Course materials are mostly created by the Air Force, and the classes taught by retired officers. Costs will be split between the Air Force and the school district. Federal Way is the third King County school district to ask the military to set up shop as part...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Does Hollywood use schools and teachers to pimp movies to young children? I suspect that they do. We already know that companies provide schools with products and supplies in exchange for in-class advertising and promotion. The following is a true story. (Although, in writing this, I have undoubtedly improved upon the grammar of the responses I received from the children.) Yesterday, I was talking to a friend's third-grade daughter about her school curriculum. I asked her what she was studying this week. "The Greeks," she said. I asked further, "Why are you studying the Greeks and what are you learning...

<p>Local youths (from left) Robby Ault, Nick Mayne and Jason Stults prepare to fire away during a Youth Marksmanship Program class held at the Marion County Fish and Game Association clubhouse. Looking on are class instructors Rod Cooper (background, left) and Don Roberts (background, right).</p>

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides over $600,000 annually in federal funds to the Stop AIDS Project of San Francisco to pay for HIV "prevention" workshops including the flirting classes scheduled for tonight: Title: Flirt, Date, Score Program: STOP AIDS Description: Want to flirt with greater finesse and date with more confidence? Who doesn't? Share your expertise and hear how others are successful in meeting guys and staying safe today. Date: 8/13/2003 Start Time: 7pm End time: 9pm Location: STOP AIDS Main Office Address: 2128 - 15th Street Directions: The STOP AIDS Project Main Office is located on...

Cash from exiles in U.S. lets Cubans live, a little Remittances help undermine U.S. sanctions intended to topple Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. They also help create inequality in Cuba, a communist country Castro tried to design as free of socioeconomic classes. .....But inequality seems to reign on the island, with whites more likely to receive remittance checks than blacks and those of mixed race, even though today blacks and mixed-race persons make up 62 percent of the island's 11 million people, according to the U.S. Department of State. Afro-Cubans tend to be more impoverished, said de Salas-del Valle, an issue...

The Chronicle in an editorial today, moans the woeful state of our schools education. In a ground breaking editorial in Sunday's paper. The Chron notes the following; There is an income gap, it claims that middle class neighborhoods score better than poor neighborhoods. It also states that the more years a child is in the public school the larger the disparity in test scores between middle class and poor students. That's a politically correct way of saying, they get dumber. They then to proceed to undercut their entire argument by pointing out that there are major disparities within schools and...