HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A biology professor at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus was charged with murder late Friday in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors at the campus.Authorities say Amy Bishop, an instructor and researcher at the university, opened fire during an a...
NEW YORK — A New York City junior high student has been arrested for doodling on her desk with a marker.Twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez scribbled "Lex was here 2/1/10" on her desk Monday at Junior High School 190 in Queens. She also wrote "I love my friends Abby and Faith." The girl says the doodles coul...
14 year-old John Caudle has confessed to Colorado police that he killed his mother and step-dad to get out of doing his household chores, reports KUSA in Denver. Caudle's mother, Joanne Rinebarger, and her husband Tracy Rinebarger, were discovered dead in their home near Monte Vista, Colorado in O...
THE Ministry of Education has now ordered a commission of enquiry to determine how completed examination scripts for grade four students at Pembroke Hall Primary School went missing last year.The ministry's decision comes after a month-long investigation and the return of six interdicted offi...
The onus on students sitting exams Published: Saturday | January 23, 2010 The Editor, Sir: I very much appreciated Peter Espeut's column of January 15, 'Change the System', on poor CSEC results which should be addressed, in general, by fixing the classroom rather than dumbing down the exam. I prefe...
The state of educationPublished: Saturday | January 16, 2010 The Editor, Sir: I conduct extra lessons for students sitting GSAT in my church community. I am not a teacher by profession but tremendously love children and have a passion for teaching. From the papers submitted by some of these childre...
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden has cracked a maths puzzle that has stumped experts for more than 300 years, Swedish media reported on Thursday. In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a s...
Count on Tuesday's alignment of the calendar adding some excitement to the lives of at least a few math geeks. Tuesday is Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, is 3/3/09 (3² = 3 ×...
Geoffrey Stanford's teachers always tell him to read tests carefully. Every sentence. Every word. Slow down. Make sure you understand what's being asked, and then proceed. So while taking his state writing test last week, the East High junior saw something that didn't make sense: The word "e...
THE education ministry says changes are to be made to the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), the examination that determines the placement of primary school students in secondary schools. The ministry, in a late afternoon statement, said a preliminary study showed that the test, which replaced t...