French academic freed from Iranian prison

The French academic who is part of a mass trial in Iran has been freed from prison on bail and turned over to the French embassy in good health, French leaders said Sunday, urging that charges against her be dropped.

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NCAA schools finding academic costs are priceless

NCAA president Myles Brand understands it's expensive running a Division I athletic program, and it can be just as expensive to give student-athletes academic help.

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NCAA academic report: Some college teams may be hit hard

NCAA president Myles Brand wants college teams concerned as much about academic scores as final scores. If they aren't, they might be barred from NCAA tournaments.

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Iran Detains Liberal Intellectual

A liberal intellectual has been arrested in Iran, the first detention of a prominent academic since the election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last year, a Cabinet minister said Thursday.

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Puppet Maliki speeches ignore threats, discharges, forced migration, mass kidnappings, assassinations of Iraqi academics, destruction of educational institutions & archaeological sites, the looting of Iraqi musea...

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At York University Mideast conference, things turned ugly: "Thus, we heard that Israel is a racist, apartheid state; that the Palestinians are the "indigenous" and Zionists the colonials; that the only reason for the unwillingness of Jewish Israelis to give up a Jewish national  …

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Evolution, Creationism, and Teen Romance: The Looniest Breakup Line Ever?

My teenaged son was recently dumped by his girlfriend. Before I go any further, I need to define some terms -- "teenaged son" and "girlfriend."

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Fighting the Thought Police on campus

American colleges are supposed to defend liberal concepts like freedom of speech, religion and conscience. Yet in recent years, they've been among the greatest enemies.

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If further proof was needed that the field of Middle East studies is marred by a politicized, morally vacuous approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the reaction of many of its leading lights to the current war in Gaza should suffice.

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A part of me feels a perverse glee any time faculty knock out an awful administrator with a no confidence vote. Woohoo!

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Senator Kate Lundy hosted a pre-2020 Summit event in Canberra last week to generate ideas on how open source technology, open standards and open access to information might transform the way government departments and the business world operate.

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The historian Tony Judt has changed our view of postwar Europe, challenged liberal America and provoked controversy with his criticism of Israel. He has never fought shy of questioning long-cherished ideas.

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One hundred years after it was founded, Cairo's School of Fine Arts seeks to train Egypt's artists but has to make do without nude "life" drawing classes so as not to offend Islam.

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As a parent, I am reevaluating the merits of the 160K investment I am about to finish making in my daughter's education at the University of Texas.

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Rev. Gregory F. Lucey, S.J. has announced to the Spring Hill College Board of Trustees that he will retire as president of the college on June 1, 2009. Fr. Lucey became the college's 37th president on June 1, 1997. This year marks his 12th year as president.

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A FUNNY idea, this notion that a PhD is supposed to be the ultimate production of an academic's life work. Surely this is the wrong way around?

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The focus in high school needs to shift away from standardized tests

There are many great arguments for standardized testing such as the FCAT. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against them (easier for me to say this now that I no longer have to worry about taking them). I just simply believe that perhaps too much time it spent focusing on these tests.

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Charles Sykes is the author of DUMBING DOWN OUR KIDS. The following is a list he created for high school and college graduates of things he did not learn in school.

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Children born in August do significantly worse in exams than classmates born 11 months earlier at the beginning of the academic year, a landmark study found yesterday.

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All you professors starting out at new institutions (like me) will be getting orientation sessions to show you the academic ropes — procedures on academic misconduct, FERPA guidelines, sexual harassment policies, etc., but you can save some time and just listen to hiphop.

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Question 8 on Professor Boonsong Chaisingkananont's examination may seem a harmless academic exercise. "Do you think the monarchy is necessary for Thai society? How should it adapt to a democratic system? Please debate."

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Learn about fire science degree programs and the schools which offer them. Request a college catalog or speak to a academic advisor about college decisions.

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Home Sweet School

I often hear of a common suffering: spending the majority of one's waking childhood inside a windowless hell with sadistic teachers, incompetent, irritating classmates, and tasteless sludge labeled "meatloaf." I really can't relate.

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Given this importance of knowing the truth you would expect that philosophy is the most important subject for humanity to understand - yet clearly this is not the case.

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If one were to read the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural boycott of Israel, one realizes how hypocritical this is. It is filled with double standards concerning academic freedom.

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African American people have a hit or miss connection with our history in this hemisphere. Many of us feel a deep connection to our past, while others act as if its significance is unimportant.

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With temperatures ranging from 1000 to 2000°C, gravity 15 times stronger than Earth's, and a year that lasts just 5.6 of our days, HAT-P-2b is not a planet you'd want to visit for vacation.

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A Downside to Day Care? A new study finds that children who regularly attend day-care centers develop more behavioral problems in kindergarten than those that don't. What's a parent to do?

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A computer program called Psiphon is now able to let foreign scholars living in oppressive regimes bypass government filters undetected.

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