Desire For U.S. Education Means Breaking Up Families For Sake Of School

Monday, April 2, 2012 Desire For U.S. Education Means Breaking Up Families For Sake Of School COLUMBIA, Mo. -- As American teenagers go, Sally Kim is pretty typical. She's crazy about singer Bruno Mars and the Plain White T's rock band, spends way too much time on Facebook and can't wait to start college in the fall. Yet when it comes to that familiar bane of her fellow high school seniors – uncool parents – Kim has few worries. Hers are nearly 7,000 miles away in Seoul, South Korea. They sent their only child to live with relatives in Missouri a decade ago, when she was just 8. Pennsylvania School Bus Driver Gets 2 DUIs Within 17 Hours School Resumes For All In Tornado-Hit Indiana Town Teacher's Aide Booted For Refusing District Access To Personal Facebook LAUSD's New Notification Policy Won't Prevent Another Miramonte Student Finds Sunken Treasure While Helping Clean Lake BLOG POSTS Dan Ross: Our Very Own Hunger Games: How to Fix Standardized Assessments However, now that March has come and gone, I recognize another link between The Hunger Games and those 31 violent days: March is the month during which most states put their students to the slaughter, more commonly known as standardized testing. Steve Rosenbaum: The Girl in Computer Science: a Google Success Story There's plenty of talk about the need to support women in tech, but for at least one high profile woman in technology -- there's a reasonable argument to be made that education should be 'blind' to gender. Terra Lawson-Remer: Obama's Outside-the-Box Pick for World Bank President The World Bank has already begun to embrace a more community-empowered framework; under Jim Yong Kim's leadership this important new direction could develop sustainable roots. J. Ronald Lally: The For Our Babies National Campaign Is Live Our mission is to establish a framework for healthier beginnings for babies that will lead to better functioning students and more productive members of society. Join us also to decry loudly and clearly the inadequate state of childcare provided to infants and toddlers in the United States. Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright: Sex Ed Makes for Smarter Sexual Decisions -- So Why Aren't Politicians Promoting Such Programs? Policymakers have been ignoring the evidence for far too long, continuing to cultivate a culture of sexually ignorant youth, who lack the knowledge and skills necessary to postpone sex or protect themselves.

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