California Schools Try to Keep Up With Immunization Records
(Photo: Free Stock Photos, Creative Commons) It was expected that hundreds of Californian students throughout the state of California would miss the first day of school this year as districts across the state continue to confirm immunization records for each student. Senate Bill 227 took effect earlier this summer, requiring all students in the state More...
Will Facebook’s Lifestage App Appeal to Teens?
(Photo: Tech Crunch) Facebook has launched a new app called Lifestage, which is designed specifically to appeal to teenagers. However, concerns have been raised about its privacy settings. Teenagers can upload More...
Texas Students Protest Guns with ‘Cocks Not Glocks’
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Students at the University of Texas arrived on campus openly displaying sex toys earlier in the week in protest of the new state gun law that makes the carrying of concealed More...
American Heart Association Releases New Sugar Limits for Kids
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) The American Heart Association (AHA) has made itself clear — until children are two-years-old, they should consume no added sugars. Between the ages of two and 18, young More...
Federal Injunction Halts School Bathroom Directives from Obama Administration
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) The Obama administration has been blocked by 13 states over an attempt to broaden the application of a statute that governs the operation of each state and locality that receives More...
Top School Districts with Education Segregation List Surprises
The most economically different school districts in the US which are adjacent to one another are the Detroit academic system and Grosse Pointe, Mich., says a study from EdBuild, an educational funding reform nonprofit. The More...
‘Netiquette’ Matters in Online Course Quality, Report Says
(Photo: Public Domain, Creative Commons) The expectations of “netiquette,” the term used to describe acceptable communication with others over the internet, has been identified as one of the most defining More...
Hasidic Sect Issues Decree Against Higher Education for Women
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) According to a decree issued by Satmar rabbis in New York, where the sect is based, university education for women is “dangerous” and is now banned by the ultra-Orthodox More...
Anki’s Cozmo Robot Offers Personality, Learning
(Photo: Anki) A new age of robotics might just be around the corner and may change how we think of robots forever. Cozmo, a tiny toy robot, has been released by a company called Anki. Anki has blended artificial More...
Closer Social Ties Accompany Cyberbullying, Report Says
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A new paper presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting has examined youth cyber aggression in an effort to show how close relationships, both friendly More...