From Delhi, Indians to teach students in Africa

NEW DELHI – Just like a typical classroom scene, a professor will deliver a lecture and students will raise their hands to ask questions. Only here, the teacher will be at the Delhi University (DU) campus while the students will be in Africa.

As part of the Pan-African e-network project between India and Africa that was …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : From Delhi, Indians to teach students in Africa.

Judge permanently bans suburban Philly school district from webcam spying on students

Judge bans webcam spying on Philly students

PHILADELPHIA – A judge has permanently banned a suburban Philadelphia school district from secretly monitoring students with webcams on their school-issued laptops.
U.S. District Judge Jan DuBois’ ruling Friday was similar to a temporary injunction the judge imposed in February after a student sued the district over privacy concerns. The …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

AG Eric Holder urges law grads to modernize legal system, makes no mention of terrorism

Holder tells NYC grads to modernize legal system
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday urged law school graduates to continue the tradition of modernizing the American legal system.
Delivering the commencement address at his alma mater, Columbia University Law School, Holder made no mention of the Justice Department’s investigation of the … Original article on : AG Eric Holder urges law grads to modernize legal system, makes no mention of terrorism.

Texas Tech asks judge to coach Mike Leach’s lawsuit over firing

Texas Tech seeks to hamstring Leach lawsuit

LUBBOCK, Texas – Attorneys for Texas Tech asked a judge Friday to essentially throw out a lawsuit by former football coach Mike Leach, saying it has legal immunity under state law.
State District Judge William C. Sowder said he would issue a decision later and expected an appeal to the … Original article on : Texas Tech asks judge to coach Mike Leach’s lawsuit over firing.

Correction: Catholic School-Gay Parents story

Correction: Catholic School-Gay Parents story

BOSTON – In a story May 13 about a Boston Archdiocese offer to find a different Catholic school for a boy denied acceptance at a Hingham Catholic school because his parents are gay, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a group that spoke out about the original decision. The … Original article on : Correction: Catholic School-Gay Parents story.

Conservative lawyers’ support for high court nominee Kagan could blunt claim she’s too liberal

Conservative friends rise in support of Kagan
WASHINGTON – Conservative lawyers and academics are voicing support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, praise that could soften criticism from the right and provide cover for any Republican senators inclined to vote for her nomination.
The essence of their take on Kagan, the former Harvard Law … Read more »».

Goodwin Liu nomination shows Asian-American gains in judicial and legal professions

Asian judge nominee shows community’s progress
When Wendy Chang told her parents she wanted to become a lawyer, they were not enthused.
“They wanted me to do the medicine thing,” said Chang, who immigrated to America from Taiwan with her parents as a child and is now a partner at a Los Angeles … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Goodwin Liu nomination shows Asian-American gains in judicial and legal professions.

Wis. researcher inspired by the Dalai Lama makes strides understanding compassion, happiness

Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness

MADISON, Wis. – After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question.
Scientists often study depression, anxiety and fear, but why not devote your work to the causes …. Original article  : Wis. researcher inspired by the Dalai Lama makes strides understanding compassion, happiness.

Gore gets home-state honors with doctorate from University of Tennessee, 3rd in school history

U. of Tenn. gives Gore home-state honorary degree

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore can hang a new award on his wall after his home-state University of Tennessee gave him an honorary doctorate.
It’s just the third such degree the university has granted, after previous ones for former U.S. Senate Majority … Read more »».

USDA says gov’t will require higher standards next year for ground beef served in schools

Ground beef in schools this fall will be safer

WASHINGTON – Students will be eating safer beef in school cafeterias when they return to school in the fall.
The Agriculture Department announced Friday that the government will require higher standards for ground beef purchased for schools starting in July. The standards will force producers to test the … Read : USDA says gov’t will require higher standards next year for ground beef served in schools.

Delhi school ordered to take back dyslexic student

NEW DELHI – The Delhi High Court Friday asked a school to take back a Class 8 student, expelled after he was diagnosed to be suffering from dyslexia, a learning disability.

Giving relief to Priyam Kumar, a student of St.Mary’s School in Safdarjung Enclave, Justice Kailash Gambhir directed the school to take back the student in … Read : Delhi school ordered to take back dyslexic student.

Bihar’s Super 30 in Time Magazine best list

PATNA – Super 30, Bihar’s free coaching centre which helps economically backward students crack the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), has been selected by The Time Magazine in the list of The Best of Asia 2010.

“It is a matter of great pleasure that the Time Magazine has included our school Super 30 in … Read : Bihar’s Super 30 in Time Magazine best list.

Another Ohio sorority gone wild? Univ. of Dayton group in trouble over banquet hall damage

Third Ohio sorority in trouble over wild partying

DAYTON, Ohio – A third Ohio sorority is in trouble after a banquet hall party in which students were accused of vandalism, urinating and vomiting on carpet, and stealing alcohol.
The University of Dayton’s Alpha Phi chapter faces a May 27 disciplinary hearing for the rowdy gathering held in …. Read the original article  : here.

Family sues Houston teacher in beating of 13-year-old student captured on cell phone video

Family sues teacher in recorded attack on student

HOUSTON – The family of a 13-year-old whose beating by a Houston charter school teacher was caught on a classmate’s cell phone video has filed a lawsuit against the teacher and the school.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday on behalf of Isaiah Reagins by his mother, Alesha Johnson.
Science teacher …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Family sues Houston teacher in beating of 13-year-old student captured on cell phone video.

India girl pays for school uniform with life

A teenaged girl in India was brutally killed and her body buried in a field by her parents after she asked them to buy her school uniform, police said today.

Police said Soni Kumari, a Class VIII girl from a government middle school in east Champaran district in Bihar, asked her parents to purchase school uniform …. Read the original article  : India girl pays for school uniform with life.