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School's out for ever as enrolment online starts By
Alexandra Blair, Education Correspondent
It c1aims to be the c1assroom of the future, with round-the-c1ock tuition and the end of the
school mn for only f2,000 a year. When First College UK opens next month it will be the first online
secondary school in Britain, teaching up to 60 children to GCSE 1evel from the comfort of their homes.
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An estimated 170,000 youngsters are taught by their parents at home, and an increasing
number are looking for alternative education. With rising costs forcing universities to offer online courses,
academics say that there is no reason why schools should not go the same way.
Like many schools, pupils attend assembly at 9.30am, when children log on and enter a website,
before going to c1ass. There is a library, a message board, a main hall, exams and homework.
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There will be no more than 15 to a c1ass, lessons finish at lunchtime, after which pupils do set projects.
Parents have their own chat room and receive a fortnight1y cal1 to check they are happy with their child's
progress.
The project is ambitious, but smal1-scale. There wil1 be only five teachers. "Unlike a lot of
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independent schools we are not asking parents to pay the term; all they have to do is pay an average
f165 per month and a deposit," says Shan J ayran, the founder. "If they don't like it, they can leave."
The school is aimed at parents who favoUT home education for bullied or disabled children; and
those of expatriate families who travel frequently.
The lack of socialising with other children has been a concem. However, Ms Jayran said that
there is litt1e socialising in mainstream schools outside of break time.
Anita Princas, who gives online courses at London University, said: "It could weIl be the school
ofthe future."
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The Times, December 10, 2005
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How did this happen ? by Amanda Ripley
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How, then, did America get here? How did the richest country on earth end up watching
children cry for food in putrid encampments on the evening news? How did reporters reach crowds
of the desperate in places where police, troops and emergency responders had not been yet, three
days after the storm?
Deconstructing Katrina will take years. But it is aIre ad y clear that the blame can be
well-distributed, from the White House to emergency-management officiaIs at federal, state and
locallevels, all the way down to the cops who abandoned their posts in New Orleans. "The system
broke" says Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards Research Lab at the university of South Carolina.
"A system that cannot airlift water and food to a community that's desperate for
it is a system that is broken."
Close up, the reasons are infuriating. New Orleans officiaIs were supremely unprepared;
that was never a secret among people in the disaster business. Meanwhi1e, throughout the state and
US federal government, much money and willpower had shifted to fighting terrorism, a major risk
and vital effort but much less of a sure thing than natural disasters. Because of tax
cuts and budget pressures at allievels, many emergency-response capabilities - once the envy
of the world - have slipped. If Hurricane Katrina turns out to be the biggest disaster in U.S history
to date, it will also be the least surprising.
The larger lesson may be more humbling: after all the post-9/l1 vows, is the US still not well
enough armed for the next big one? Humans are not good at understanding risk, and in the
States, they perform worse when it costs a lot to prevent or prepare for a disaster - especially
when the people who would otherwise suffer the most are poor. ( ... )
Time Magazine, 12th September 2005
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Parenting dasses attract ail
By Katherine Sellgren BBC News education reporter
Overworked parents struggling with out-of-control children, disaffected with
education and society generally.
This can be the stereotype of the sorts of people attending parenting classes.
But the reality is often very different. Many of those who make the commitment to a weekly c1ass are
responsible parents just looking for any tips that will help them do an even betterjob.
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At Rush Croft School in Chingford, north east London, around 80 parents have "graduated" from a
parenting class over the past five years.
Their commitment is high: the course runs for 13 weeks and is three hours long on a Wednesday
evening.
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"It's not to say my son is giving me any bother," says Paulette, one of those on this term's course. ''l'm
here to see what I can learn, how I can do things differently to bring out the best in him.
"Bringing up a child is the most important thing Vou have to do, 1 think it's a very serious role."
Father of an eight-year-old boy, Kobina, is also keen to improve his skills. "As a parent Vou need ail the
help Vou can get". ( ... )
Stigma
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But while these parents are Far From neglecting their parental duties, Paulette acknowledges there
can be a stigma attached to attending a parenting class.
"1 haven't told many people l'm doing it because people tend to assume you've got issues," she says. "1
think it's a shame there aren't more people here - and fathers too."
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The course run at Rush Croft ( ... ) covers a range of issues From developing a child's ability to
empathise with others to how to pass on a sense of cultural heritage within ethnie minority
families.
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Head teacher at Rush Croft, ( ... ) Patricia Cutler, says the classes have helped families in need of extra
support. She cites one family where the children were on the verge of being excluded From the school,
when the parents committed ta attending the course. Thereafter, the children's
behaviour improved noticeably and they were able to finish their education at the school.
( ... )
When they complete the course, parents take part in a "graduation" ceremony, with the whole family
invited to come along and celebrate their achievement.
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Schoolchildren Want to Say It ln Chinese
By GRETCHEN RUETHLING
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CHICAGO - The future of foreign language study in the United States may be seen here at
Louisa May Alcott Elementary School.
One recent moming, a class ofthird graders bowed to one another and introduced themselves in
Chinese, and a class of fourth graders practiced writing numbers in Chinese characters.
Chinese classes began at Alcott in February, but more students are aiready choosing it over
Spanish.
"Chinese is our new baby," said David J. Domovic, the principal at Alcott, one of20 public
schools in the city offering instruction in Mandarin. "Everybody just wants in."
With encouragement from the Chinese and American govemments, schools across the United
States are expanding their language offerings to include Chinese, the world's most spoken
tongue. ln May, American lawmakers proposed spending $1.3 billion over five years on Chinese
language programs and cultural ex changes in schools and on cultural exchanges to improve ties.
After 2,400 schools expressed interest, Advanced Placement Chinese classes will be offered
in high schools around the United States starting next year, with Beijing paying half the$ 1.35
million to develop the classes, according to the College Board.
At Alcott, Raul Freire, 9, a fourth grader fluent in Spanish and English, said he taught words to
his mother so she could communicate with Chinese-speaking customers at the bank where she
works.
The New-York Times, in Le Monde, Saturday, November 5, 2005
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Never Far From Nowhere
Our parents were from Jamaica .... Olive and l were born in London .... Ourparents came over on a ship
in the fifties and found rooms in a house .... Until the council housed us in a flat on an estate ....
We liked the estate at first. It was new and c1ean and the air around it felt fresh like days at the seaside,
even though ifwas firmly in Finsbury Park. ...
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Inside the flat was small, but full ofthings we'd always wanted. A separate bathroom and toilet. A
kitchen you could sit in with a table and four chairs, for a proper family like in the adverts. My mum
and dad enjoyed their new home .... Our dad made notes as mum called out that we needed two more
wardrobes or a nice shelving unit with a light to show off the ornaments to their best.. .. And everybody
knew, but nobody said that we didn't have the money to buy anything ....
One morning dad woke up with a cough .... Emphysema, the doctor said. Brake linings, my dad said,
and shook his head and coughed sorne more. They pensioned him off on sick-leave and he sat in a
chair and wheezed and coughed. Then one day he ventured out for a paper and got caught in the rain.
The cough became a fever and he died. Pneumonia ....
When l was young, l used to look at my parents ... and l used to think how lucky this country was to
have them. How grateful people should be that they came here and did such responsible jobs. And how
ifthey went back- ifthey went backto Jamai~a - weIl, who knows what would
. happen to the buses, to the children or the new hospital wing{My parents helped this country, l
thought. l thought it as Ilay in bed atnight. l thought it at school. l thought it walking down the street or
playing in the flats. But even when l was young, when l was still having my cheek pulled by passers-by
and people winked at me on the tube, even then l knew that English people hated us.
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