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AP - Struggling with budget shortfalls that reach into the billions, several states are making deep cuts in college financial aid programs, including those that provide a vital source of cash for students who most need the money.
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/44259...
More than 2,000 10 and 11-year-olds will see a short film, which urges them to tell the police, their parents or a teacher if they hear anyone expressing extremist views!
http://www.listicles.com/2009/03/10-awkward-sex-education...
I can't tell if a character called “Condoman” and anatomically correct stuffed toys are NSFW or just a sad, sad commentary on the state of American sex education.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/4637/pre-chew...
A U.K. based design firm Concentrate is attempting to help kids concentrate with pre-chewed pencils. Now you are definitely out of excuses for not getting started on that novel/screenplay/GRE Prep workbook. Cheeky novelties aside Concentrate is developing innovative products by identifying the reasons students might be distracted, uncomfortable or unable to focus.
Culture Buzz Happy National Punctuation Day, the holiday that reminds everybody that “a semicolon is not a surgical procedure”!!! So use your commas, hyphens, parenthesis, and “quotation marks” generously, copy editors have been forewarned.
Movie Buzz The rubber room in the NYC public school district is where they send teachers who get in trouble, but not enough to fire them. It’s also the subject of a new documentary that looks pretty interesting and is currently trying to amass funding. It’s like purgatory for teachers. Kind of like how high school is hell for teenagers.