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In Bangladesh, children 15 and older can be put in jail for cheating on their final examinations. Every year, Bangladeshi government takes strong measures to stop cheating and carries out a massive media campaign to forewarn students through print…

The following quotations are taken from official court records across the nation, showing how funny and embarrassing it is that recorders operate at all times in courts of law, so that even the slightest inadvertence is preserved for…

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/05/the-top-ten-strangest-self-experiments-ever/

In 1955, geneticist Helen Spurway discovered the phenomenon known as parthenogenisis: how some species procreate without a male. Spurway was studying guppies, but wanted to know if parthenogenisis, or "virgin birth," happened in humans. A call went…

Can You Answer This 8th-Grade Test Question?

This is why more and more people dismissed standardized tests as poor indicators of a student's ability: some of the questions are pure nonsense. For example, The Pineapple and the Hare appears on an…

When I was in school, I always found it hard to study. When I did actually get around to doing it though, I found that if I ‘applied myself’ I could actually do well.

I’ve found numerous ways, some my own and others learned, that help me get…

Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S.…

From the moment of our conception to the minutes of our death (and for some even after) we are tested. Be it a pregnancy test or the call of a doctor in the middle of the night, we are tested throughout our lives. This archive is about testing and…

BEN CHAPMAN, RACHEL MONAHAN
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Students across the state are still scratching their heads over an absurd test question about a talking pineapple.

The puzzler on the eighth-grade reading exam stumped even educators and…

Getting a seat in class is a very tense situation. It can make or break the way your day or year will go, depending on the class system. Clearly sitting with your friends is important, as is getting out of the teacher’s line of sight if you want…