Education

Problems with US schools
A mix of viewpoints of primarily US education.


 * 1) Teacher threatens lower grades if banned terms are used. Like "tranny", "illegal aliens", etc. Washington State University.
 * 2) Overprotected kids prevent them from learning by experience. Helicopter parents kill their kids' self-esteem.
 * 3) 10 Outrageous Zero Tolerance Follies of 2014.
 * 4) Advanced little girl gets in trouble for writing in cursive. Teacher discourages learning. Kansas.
 * 5) Ahmed Mohammed withdraws from school after teacher mistakenly calls his homemade clock a bomb. Police arrest Ahmed. Irving, Texas.
 * 6) $75 million teacher pay incentive did not improve achievement. New York City schools.
 * 7) Free speech petitioners told they'll be 'locked up' at DuPage.
 * 8) Ohio lowers the bar on standard test scores to improve the number of proficient students. Ohio.
 * 9) Alabama puts stickers in biology textbooks telling students to question 'unproven' evolution. Alabama.
 * 10) List of 70 lawsuits of male students against universities accusing them of sexual misconduct and violating their due process.
 * 11) Computers (in the classroom) do not improve results from BBC news and OECD  report.

Free Learning sites

 * 1) Khan Academy. One of the big sites.
 * 2) TED.com. Inspiring, creative ideas and concepts. Free videos.
 * 3) ABCya. Free learning games for kids grades K-5.

Open Access Research
Free access to scientific papers.


 * 1) PLOS.org