India on Monday unveiled new guidelines on disciplining children in schools after a survey revealed large-scale corporal punishment meted out by teachers. More than 98 percent of the 6,632 children involved in the survey, who were aged between three and 17, had endured some type of physical punishment at school, the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights said.Read more

Most Australian children in their last year of primary school think cotton socks come from animals while one-quarter believe yoghurt is from plants, a study warning of the growing gap between city and country found. The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) survey of almost 1,000 students in grades six and 10 found widespread misconceptions about food processing and farming.Read more

The Indonesian government has donated 6 million U.S. dollar funds to help fund the cash-strapped United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) and plans to give other 4 million U.S. dollars soon, media reported here on Monday. Education and Culture Minister Muhammad Nuh transferred the 6 million U.S. dollars on the sidelines of UNESCO's executive board meeting inRead more

Teenagers face far less homophobia among their peers than ever before because the stigma of being gay is melting away in secondary schools, according to a new book. The anti-gay prejudices of the 80s and early 90s are disappearing, claims Mark McCormack, a sociologist at Brunel University. McCormack spent six months in each of three schools in the same UKRead more

In a well-publicized paper that addressed why some students were not learning to read, Reid Lyon (2001) concluded that children from disadvantaged backgrounds where early childhood education was not available failed to read because they did not receive effective instruction in the early grades. Many of these children then required special education services to make up for this early failureRead more

As the country’s total college debt passed the $1 trillion mark and overtook the total credit-card debt for the first time, the repercussions are being felt in the housing market, as first-time homebuyers are limited in their options when it comes to taking out mortgages. Recent college graduates carry an average debt load of more than $25,000, limiting their abilityRead more

The German government has approved student preparation for Muslim preaching for the first time ever in its history. The approval came in the Osnabruck area northwest Germany after Islam came third among the country's religions, with the total number of Muslims reaching 4 million, 45% of which hold the German nationality. German Chancellor Angela Merkel remarked that she wanted IslamRead more

A college student was found dead in Narsingdi Sadar upazila Sunday morning hours after he went missing. Sumon Miah, 20, a BA first year student of Narsingdi Government College, was stabbed in his throat and abdomen, said Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge of Narsingdi Sadar Police Station. Quoting victim’s father Rowshan Miah, police said Sumon went out of his Daripara residence Saturday eveningRead more

Right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, roundly criticized for branding a law student a "slut" over her outspoken support of President Barack Obama's new policy on contraception coverage, apologized on Saturday for his "insulting word choices." The furor over Limbaugh's comments, made on his influential radio program, prompted Obama to call the 30-year-old Georgetown University law student and women's rights activist,Read more

An exhibition based on Albert Einstein opened Friday in Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei province. The exhibition for Einstein will last to June 17, and residents and tourists can visit the exhibition free. Albert Einstein, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, was regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolificRead more