<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : education : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : education : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance Education  amp; The Library - Web Resources]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22193/1/</link><description><![CDATA[These are web resources that I used for my recent paper on the impact of distance education on the academic library for ILS560-College  amp; University Libraries.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[States stop the funding of abstinence education]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44362/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The education system has finally figured out that there is no way to stop teens from having sex, and some states are denying the funding to abstinence education.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas to revert Social Studies education to the dark ages]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/110927/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I exaggerate, but the Texas State Board of Education is about to create a panel of experts to oversee the creation of their next social studies curriculum &quot;that includes absurdly unqualified ideologues who are hostile to public education&quot; and believe, for example, that wildfires and hurricanes are divine punishments for tolerance of homosexuality]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Math Education: An inconvient Truth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57257/1/</link><description><![CDATA[What text book companies are trying to teach kids is crazy!  Having an atlas is not something that I would expect in a MATH book.  Having chapters about calculator use instead of teaching how to do actual multiplication and division.  I know that America does not have the best education system in the world but come on!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make A Mushroom, Support Art Education]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/96908/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Paper bag mushrooms are planted by various schools and organizations throughout the nation. Here are some examples of the many many many mushroom installations throughout the nation. Check out more of artist <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.dougrhodehamel.com/index.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Doug Rhodehamel's works here</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Carlin: Education and the Owners of America]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35699/1/</link><description><![CDATA[NSFW--language<br/><br/>Can't really argue that.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence-Only Is Always Bad Policy]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33222/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence-Only education is an asinine policy when it comes to sex-education and it doesn't work for most other concerns either. Don't believe me? Read the comic at the link.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Jersey rejects abstinence-only sex education]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/4500/1/</link><description><![CDATA[State's Governor Jon Corzine and Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs tell feds the 'keep in in your pants' method doesn't work. <br/><br/>I don't know why the image of elmo came up when I typed in 'sex', but I just had to use it.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colorado DoE Working to Kill Bill Providing Free College Tuition to Decorated Combat Vets]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50926/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A bill that would grant Colorado residents who were awarded Purple Heart or higher medal free college tuition is <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/colorado-department-of-higher-education.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">under fire</a> as too costly by people such as David Skaggs of the Dept of Education. The same David Skaggs who <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_5657370,00.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">proposes</a> having tax payers pay a large percentage of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/08/colorado-in-state-tuition-for-children.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">illegal</a> alien's tuition.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghana: Teachers Run for Cover As GES Undertakes Headcount]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/126201/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Ghana Education Service (GES) is embarking on a head count of teachers in the Northern region as part of efforts to clean the bloated pay roll.<br/>The exercise has apparently created panic among teachers the region.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish curriculum caused a ruckus]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135690/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Extremadura government's campaign for 14-17 year olds based around the slogan &quot;pleasure is in your own hands&quot; has made education ever so interesting.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ABC's of Sex education for trainables]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/22396/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A 70's PSA training film for teaching sex ed. to the mentally disabled.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74245/1/</link><description><![CDATA[By 2010, Asia will have 90 percent of the world&#8217;s Ph.D. scientists and engineers. Today, when science is more important then ever, the US has fallen far behind. How can we recitfy this? Adam Savage has a few ideas.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dalai Lama To Fund Neuroscience]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/91283/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Tenzin Gyatso is to provide $150,000 towards Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education to study.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education on Drugs]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5570/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Excellent video, struck me as funny. Highlights: The &quot;knuckles&quot; exchange between the suit and the rapper, and a brief discussion on Pringles.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Debate: Proposition 8]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80391/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why there are so many propositions in California? Joking aside, one serious proposition is coming before CA voters. Its broad implications could affect everything from little Johnny's education to the 11,000 recent gay marriages. Pro and con videos in the comments. Is the main issue marraige or equality of rights? Are there any solutions?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jobless Head Back to School]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/90509/1/</link><description><![CDATA[When the economy heads south, the job market dries up and layoffs mount, and many people turn to higher education&#8212;whether it be graduate school, continuing education, or college&#8212;as a refuge.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex play in kindergartens]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38729/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A specialist in early childhood education in Oslo (Norway) is giving new meaning to the term &quot;sexual games,&quot; and stirring widespread debate.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to tell if a culinary school offers a high-quality education]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15668/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Accreditation and reputation are both good signs for a potential student to use when he or she weighs the value of one particular program or school against another.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physics teacher begs for his subject back]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23079/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An open letter to the AQA board and the UK Department for Education: &quot;My subject is still called physics. My pupils will sit an exam and earn a GCSE in physics, but that exam doesn&#8217;t cover anything I recognize as physics.&quot;]]></description></item></channel></rss>