News of the day
The Senate has compromised its way to 60 votes, and is on track to pass its healthcare bill by Dec. 24. BBC version, Globe & Mail version.
The NYT looks at some of the hidden pork barrels in the Senate healthcare bill.
Results from cognitive neuroscience studies are beginning to change the way children are taught. In particular, children are ready for math and number-related teaching much earlier than previously thought.
Chicago public schools, no longer allowed to use race as a factor in admissions, are looking at other ways to increase diversity at sought-after schools. Stats that dropped my jaw: "white students make up only about 9 percent of the public school population, compared to a white population of 31.5 percent in the city" and "85 percent of students come from low-income families". Vivid illustration of the abandonment of the public system by those who can afford to bail.
New high-school courses in computing science aim to make it look cooler.
A US General in Northern Iraq has made pregnancy an offense subject to court martial. That includes either getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant.
The owners of a Toronto sex shop (Red Tent Sisters) have convinced their MP that the materials used to make sex toys should be regulated. Quote of the day:"'I frankly didn't know about international orgasm day,' says Dr. Bennett. (The small, relatively unknown celebration falls this Monday, one day after the MP's birthday)."
The NYT looks at some of the hidden pork barrels in the Senate healthcare bill.
Results from cognitive neuroscience studies are beginning to change the way children are taught. In particular, children are ready for math and number-related teaching much earlier than previously thought.
Chicago public schools, no longer allowed to use race as a factor in admissions, are looking at other ways to increase diversity at sought-after schools. Stats that dropped my jaw: "white students make up only about 9 percent of the public school population, compared to a white population of 31.5 percent in the city" and "85 percent of students come from low-income families". Vivid illustration of the abandonment of the public system by those who can afford to bail.
New high-school courses in computing science aim to make it look cooler.
A US General in Northern Iraq has made pregnancy an offense subject to court martial. That includes either getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant.
The owners of a Toronto sex shop (Red Tent Sisters) have convinced their MP that the materials used to make sex toys should be regulated. Quote of the day:"'I frankly didn't know about international orgasm day,' says Dr. Bennett. (The small, relatively unknown celebration falls this Monday, one day after the MP's birthday)."