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- Students Speak Out! - Offers forums for students of all ages to express their opinions about school.
- School Daze: What Students Think About School - An archive of students' writing about school life, covering a variety of topics such as teachers, peers, discrimination and parental pressure. Also offers help to students in writing about their own experiences.
- Eye on Education: Students' Voices - Boston's WGBH 89.7 goes behind the scenes with YWCA's Youth Voice Collaborative to produce "Classroom Voices: Teen and Teacher Radio Diaries." Features audio and transcripts of interviews with students.
- Students Against Testing - A nationwide network of students who oppose test and score-based schooling, and support life-based learning. Features information on how to get involved and an interactive message board.
Wikipedia Articles
- Jürgen Rüttgers - Jürgen Rüttgers (born June 26, 1951 in Cologne) is a German politician (CDU) and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, widely known for his views on immigration and the famous phrase "Kinder statt Inder" ("children instead of Indians") which was a media interpretation of "Statt Inder an die Computer müssen unsere Kinder an die Computer" ("instead of Indians in front of computers, our children must be in front of computers"), at a time when immigrants from India were feared to come by the thousands to Germany. His opinions on the superiority of the Christian religion, which he expressed in a TV talk-show were also a reason for headlines lately.
- Mystery of Banshee Towers - Enid Blyton's The Mystery of Banshee Towers was the last (15th) children's novel in a series, known collectively as The Five Find-Outers, that ran from the mid 1940's to this one, published in 1961 Reprinted by London, Egmont in 2003 ISBN 1 4052 0407 9. Opinions on the novel differ Compare Robinson and Eyre.