Vicky writes: "According to an article running on ecampustours.com "College can be a very demanding time for students. Professors, class projects, and extracurricular activities can all contribute to a stressed-out college student. From schoolwork to social problems, students can sometimes become so overwhelmed that they do not know how to efficiently manage their stressful situations. These tips can help keep college stress at a minimum before it becomes too hard to handle..."

College life can be either the best experience of a lifetime or a nightmare. Living on campus can be fun, and also add to the stess. Although, it's highly reccommended that students should take the oppurtunity to live on campus. Most students can learn and practice how to make good decision making skills.
There are a few basic steps in having a sucessful campus life. Some of them are...

- Getting organized
- Prioritize your schoolwork
- Taking time to relax
- Realize that it’s okay to say “no”."

Vicky writes: ""Three hours of misery are apparently not enough. Now the makers of the SAT want to shape what kids learn throughout four years of high school. True, students have always had to brush up on vocabulary and take practice tests before the SAT, but now the College Entrance Examination Board, which owns the test, is developing the " New SAT," an exhaustive revision largely intended to mold the U.S. secondary-school system to its liking. The College Board wants schools to produce better writers, so the New SAT will require an essay. The board thinks grammar is important..."
-Text from TIME Magazine, Oct. 27th 2003

Well, this should be old news, surprisingly people haven't taken this issue too seriously. The SATs have always been stressful for high school students. Now it can change the way colleges accept students. The scoring rate went up from a perfect 1600 to 2400, which makes it harder to study for. They included an essay portion to the SAT, which is important, but not absolutely neccessary, in my opinion."

Marco writes: "The New York Times (registration requred) is reporting on how common chat room/IM talks (such as 'U' for you, 'R' for are, etc) are creeping into the classrooms and homework assignments from those teenage kids who spend a significant amount of time chatting online. As you may imagine, it makes it hard for teachers to grade the assignments, much less understand them because of the techno-generation gap. But teachers are fighting back by penalizing students for using the net slang in order to prevent further abuse of it. The saddest part is that it has become second nature to those students, that most of them don't even realize it until it is pointed out."

Panoramix writes: "This is an extract from an article posted on Haitipressnetwork.com (HPN) on 4/4/02.
"Le ministre Myrto Célestin Saurel a fait savoir que d’ici le mois prochain, une liste d’écoles non autorisées et dont les candidats n’ont pas été validés par le Ministère de l’éducation nationale sera publiée. Elle a signalé que seulement environ quatre-vingts autorisations de fonctionnement ont été délivrées à des établissements scolaires en règle avec le MENJS."
This announcement seems to be on the same line of thought with this article "Haiti’s Educational System.” Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 where it mentioned “If a school receives an "F" for 3 consecutives years, they need to change their license from a school license to a learning center, thus they won't be able to send their students to the State's " Certificat Primaire" exam. This should give schools … in Haiti an incentive to better educate the students in order to keep their license.”"

Panoramix writes: "How can we develop a nation when we can't communicate with each other? As much as 80% of the population in Haiti are illiterate. One of the main reason is that Haitians are forced to learn how to read, write and count in a language that they don’t understand. Would it make sense for the U.S government to require that the entire school curriculum for the USA must be taught in German?
French is not officially required in Haiti, but is required by Haitian society in order to occupy important functions in the community. Efforts have been made to teach Creole in schools. But who wants to learn a dead end language. If you don’t speak French in Haiti, it’s even hard to get good service and you can forget about getting a job in an office. You can’t get your “ Certificat d’etudes primaries” (primary school certificat), your high school diploma and you can’t learn any professions in Creole. Even the laws are written in French in Haiti. From the 20% counted as literate half of them don’t understand what they read. I will quote a Haitian teacher speaking about one of the servants that my parents sent to school while I was in Haiti: “ J’ai vi Rose passer Dessan’n, elle n’est pas venur dans leutapissement.”. What can a child learn from a teacher like that? Who’s fault is it, are they stupid because they can’t learn, or are we more ignorant than them for trying to teach them in French. "

La_belle writes: "Here are a few of the things learned at the Black Think Tank this week. Just the Facts:

1. The first Americans or native Americans going back to 13,000 BC were black! Look up the Folsom people who lived in Arizona.

2. Best reason to stop our use of the term African American and say Black. A white person who was born in Africa, who moves to America is an African American and qualifies for financial aid, etc., but will get the jobs/pay privileges afforded to whites.

3. Look up the Slavery Law of 1665 (which stayed in effect until 1968)
and the Maryland Doctrine of Exclusion (1638): both laws state that blacks must be excluded from the benefits afforded whites and that blacks must remain noncompetitive with whites, except in sports and entertainment."

Goldenchild writes: "Below is a partial transcript of an article from apa.org where they finally admitted males are the dominated group when it comes to math solving problems.

WASHINGTON -- Just say the word math and some people roll their eyes or shake their heads. America's school children in particular are not known for their abilities in the subject. Two new studies in the June issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), look at gender differences in math learning in elementary school and the role social pressure plays in math achievement for adolescents.

Boys and Girls Think Differently When It Comes to Problem Solving For decades researchers and educators have discussed gender differences in math abilities among American children. A new study shows that, as early as first grade, differences exist in the strategies boys and girls use to solve math problems. "