<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : education : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>22193</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22193/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Distance Education  amp; The Library - Web Resources]]></title><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><comments>0</comments><score>1</score><crdate>5/31/2007 1:43:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-31T01:43:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57257</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57257/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Math Education: An inconvient Truth]]></title><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><comments>15</comments><score>336</score><crdate>4/7/2008 11:32:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-07T11:32:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44362</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44362/1/</url><title><![CDATA[States stop the funding of abstinence education]]></title><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><comments>2</comments><score>72</score><crdate>12/16/2007 12:39:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-16T00:39:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>110927</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/110927/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas to revert Social Studies education to the dark ages]]></title><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><comments>7</comments><score>297</score><crdate>5/1/2009 1:03:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-01T01:03:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>23079</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23079/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A physics teacher begs for his subject back]]></title><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><comments>3</comments><score>102</score><crdate>6/7/2007 8:24:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-07T20:24:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9023</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9023/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Free Education Motherlode]]></title><description><![CDATA[All autodidacts will find themselves drooling over this site. Very extensive listing of free courses, documentaries, language learning, reference sites and more.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>73</score><crdate>1/14/2007 12:12:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-14T12:12:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>114692</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/114692/1/</url><title><![CDATA[8 tuition free colleges]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can of course get a &quot;free&quot; education by joining the military, but if that isn't the route you wish to take here are 8 colleges where you can earn a degree for free. Some even give free room &amp; board! You may have to work a few hours a week, but that is a small price to pay.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>140</score><crdate>5/15/2009 6:41:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-15T18:41:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1705</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1705/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Too Cool For School? Further your education here.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.&quot;<br/><br/>Extemely useful and full of information on a large variety of subjects!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>29</score><crdate>9/30/2006 9:08:25 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-30T09:08:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17844</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17844/1/</url><title><![CDATA[VIRTUAL EDUCATION: THE PROS AND CONS OF LEARNING IN SECOND LIFE]]></title><description><![CDATA[That someone even took the time to write an article about this shows another sign of the coming APOCALYPSE]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>15</score><crdate>4/25/2007 12:12:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-25T12:12:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>69214</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/69214/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Optimizing The University - Why We Need a New Educational Model For A New Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[The current model of higher education grew in a haphazard fashion that has left us with traditional practices and modes of organization that in some aspects are poorly matched to modern educational needs.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>62</score><crdate>7/18/2008 9:08:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-18T21:08:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19828</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sex/l/19828/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Kan. Spikes Conservative Sex Ed Policies]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kansas Board of Education on Tuesday repealed sex education policies enacted last year, the latest move by the moderate majority to undo efforts by conservatives when they dominated the board.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>76</score><crdate>5/11/2007 12:32:00 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-11T00:32:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64631</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64631/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Typo on diplomas embarrasses Ohio principal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who need education when you can get an &quot;educaiton&quot;...330 graduates received their diplomas with education spelt wrong on them.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>32</score><crdate>6/6/2008 10:15:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-06T22:15:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17845</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/17845/1/</url><title><![CDATA[1337 speek overriding formal education?]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Text messaging, with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation, seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing.&quot;<br/><br/><br/>I've noticed this in my own students and it makes me shudder.  Remember when they tried to make &quot;Ebonics&quot; a formal language?  How do we get &quot;these kids today&quot; to remember proper language?]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>40</score><crdate>4/25/2007 12:17:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-25T12:17:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37502</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37502/1/</url><title><![CDATA[National Guard Troops Denied Benefits ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Minnesota National Guard troops have to be deployed 730 days to qualify for GI bill education benefits. Their orders were written for 729 days!]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>302</score><crdate>10/5/2007 11:38:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-05T23:38:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>87549</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/87549/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Let's talk about (safe) sex, baby]]></title><description><![CDATA[An education campaign is testing the use of 20-minute cell phone soap operas to spread the word about safe sex to high-risk women.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>95</score><crdate>1/3/2009 7:12:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-03T19:12:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43453</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43453/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Interesting new educational statistics]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article provides some interesting (and some disturbing) insights into education in various countries, as well as trends in general.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>184</score><crdate>12/6/2007 5:27:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-06T17:27:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48937</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48937/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Toronto&#8217;s Education System Votes Yes to Segregation!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last night the Toronto District School Board set back any hopes of racial equality at least 40 years by voting 11 &#8211; 9 in favour of opening a publicly funded alternative Africentric school in 2009.<br/><br/>Edit: <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/education/l/48888/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">News version of this story</a>]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>274</score><crdate>1/30/2008 3:37:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-30T15:37:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64708</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/64708/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top Ten Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Which of the world's problems can we be the most effective in solving? The <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensus" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Copenhagen Consensus</a> Conference, ranked 30 such problems and their solutions. #1 was giving vitamin A &amp; zinc to 80% of the 140 million children who lack them. This would result in $1 billion in benefits at a cost of $60 million. Other solutions were for, pollution, disease control, the education of women,and more.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>167</score><crdate>6/8/2008 10:09:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-08T10:09:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38015</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38015/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Homebrewed Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fellow Plimate, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/members/Snocrash/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Snocrash</a>, has a website called Homebrewed Science that you might find interesting.<br/>It is a new community that encourages discussion and experimentation on science projects you can do at home. Read it for enjoyment, read it for education, check it out today.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>232</score><crdate>10/11/2007 2:41:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-11T14:41:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>765</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/765/1/</url><title><![CDATA[U.S. science education lags. Whatever. American Idol was renewed!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Comparisons of science standards and curricula in the United States with that of countries that perform well on international science tests reveal overly broad and superficial coverage of science topics in U.S. classrooms.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>9/22/2006 1:40:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-22T01:40:01+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>