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International Education News Round-up
(September 8-13, 2009)
Chatting online boosts lonely teens' confidence: study
(Calgary Herald 09/07/2009)
Hours spent chatting online by the glow of the computer screen doesn't make lonely teens more isolated and unhappy, new research suggests.
Fewer fliers sent Home as schools put more on Web
(New York Times 09/07/2009 Winnie Hu)
School officials decide to limit mailings to a single, first-class envelope per student — and post the overflow on the district’s Web site, in a newly created back-to-school section.
Obama gives back-to-school speech
(BBC News 09/08/2009)
US President Barack Obama urges American schoolchildren to work hard and not to give up.
UH students get credit for a Wii bit of fitness
(Houston Chronicle 09/07/2009)
In University of Houston, students can earn an hour of credit for playing the popular Nintendo video game, just as they can for traditional physical activity classes.
Invest in education to beat recession—OECD
(Inquirer.net 09/08/2009 AFP)
Investing in higher education will help states move out of recession and also bring lifelong financial rewards to people who choose to study for longer, OECD reports.
School with 3,600 pupils will be biggest in Europe
(Daily Mail 09/07/2009)
Europe's biggest school catering for 3,600 pupils opens its doors to Britain.
How brain training games 'give children a grade boost'
(Daily Mail 09/07/2009)
Accodring to recent studies, simple brain training games can vastly improve children's school grades within a matter of weeks.
More music lessons – to improve memory, intelligence and behavior
(The Guardian 09/10/2009 Jessica Shepherd)
Learning a musical instrument at school improves children's behavior, memory and intelligence, a government-commissioned study has found.
Japan 2nd lowest among 28 OECD nations in education spending
(Breitbart.com 09/08/2009)
Japan had the second-smallest expenditure on education in 2006 among the 28 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in terms of the ratio of such state spending to gross domestic product, the OECD announces.
(Published 14 September 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
