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Low high school graduation rates in US cities
Seventeen of the US’s 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 per cent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis, and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday. The report, issued by America’s Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation’s largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools, the researchers said.
Chile: Rocks, tear gas in annual youth protests
Masked youths threw stones at police who responded by firing tear gas and water cannon in the Chilean capital on Friday at the start of annual protests against the government and the country’s free-market system. Dozens of youths, some in school uniforms, threw objects into the Santiago’s main street, the Alameda. The protests were aimed at Chile’s capitalist-style economic model and the government, which the groups say manipulates the education system to favour the wealthy and exclude the poor.
Tibetan language seen hurt by neglect
The government is neglecting and actively undermining the Tibetan language as part of continuing efforts to dilute the region’s unique culture, a group said.
Iraq: Syriac language struggling to survive
Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once a major literary language spoken throughout the Middle East. The influence of Syriac language is declining in Iraqi society. According to the Syriac culture and arts department in Iraq’s Kurdistan, over half of the Syriac community cannot read or write in their native tongue.
UK: Indiscipline said forcing teachers out
Bad behaviour in classrooms and too much government red tape is prompting a growing number of school teachers to quit, the Conservatives said. They said over a quarter of a million qualified teachers under 60 are not teaching. Nearly 100,000 left the profession between 2000 and 2005, more than double the number that left in the preceding five years, according to Tory figures.
World off track on goal of school for all children
Close to one billion people will never receive a formal education because governments around the world are not living up to pledges to provide free primary schooling for all by 2015, aid groups said on Wednesday. The campaign group said in a report that 72 million children were still not attending primary school and that 774 million adults — or one in five — were illiterate. Although many of them were in Africa, the study said several African governments had made marked improvements in providing schooling.
China: School children forced to work to generate extra income for schools
Children in China are often forced to work long hours doing dangerous or exhausting work at the expense of their education under the ‘work and study’ scheme to help schools supplement meager budgets, Human Rights Watch said.
US: Fourth-graders losing ground on literacy
US fourth-graders have lost ground in reading ability compared with kids around the world, according to results of a global reading test. Test results released Wednesday showed US students, who took the test last year, scored about the same as they did in 2001, the last time the test was given — despite an increased emphasis on reading under the No Child Left Behind law.
US: Drinking prevention needed in grade school - study human rights
A significant number of US children are already drinking by middle school, suggesting that prevention needs to start in the elementary grades, researchers conclude in a new report. About 17 per cent of sixth-graders at 61 Chicago schools said they had drunk alcohol in the past year. These children were more likely than their peers to have a range of risk factors for early drinking — such as delinquent or violent behaviour, a lack of adult supervision out of school, and having friends who drank alcohol.
AP Poll: Students in US colleges overwhelmed by stress
US college students are so frazzled they can’t sleep, eat, or study. They’re even anxious about spring break. Most are just overwhelmed by stress, from everyday worries about grades and relationships, to darker thoughts of suicide, according to a poll of undergraduates from coast to coast. Four in 10 students say they endure stress often. Nearly one in five say they feel it all or most of the time. One in five say they have felt too stressed to do schoolwork or be with friends. Majorities cite classic stress symptoms including trouble concentrating, sleeping, and finding motivation. Most say they have also been agitated, worried, too tired to work. Many cite eating problems and say they have felt lonely, depressed, like they are failures.
Iflove Schooling News from Education Department: Great Expectations under the sun
Education Stories from China, to UK, still to US, and to the whole world.