- Community will ticket parents of chronic bullies
- How to brat-proof your kids
- A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting, by Guy Delisle
- Grand Jury Rejects Indictment of Teen Arrested for Rap Lyrics—"Massachusetts student's arrest for alleged 'terroristic threats' raised First Amendment concerns."
- School Allegedly Asks Deaf Preschooler to Change His Name Because Sign Language Version Resembles 'Weapons'—Perhaps due to the public outcry, Hunter gets to keep his name.
- Student Denied Diploma, Fined $1000 for Feather—"The eagle feather is part of her Native American Heritage. Ramer is of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians. She wanted to wear the feather as a show of pride for her heritage." The principal responsible for denying Chesley Ramer's request has apparently resigned.
- Facebook post about hungry child gets school bus driver fired
- No heroes allowed: Calgary student, 13, reprimanded for defending his classmate against a knife-wielding bully—"'In the time it would have taken him to go get a teacher, could that kid's throat have been slit?' She said yes, but that's beside the point. That we 'don't condone heroics in this school.'"
- Pastry Gun Suspension Leads To NRA Membership: Josh Welch Becomes Lifetime Member
- 11-Yr-Old Suspended From School For Merely TALKING About Guns
- Kindergartener interrogated over cap gun until he pees his pants, then suspended 10 days
- Hayward school to sponsor toy gun exchange
- Opinion: Fighting education fanatics—"Schools treat 5-year-olds like hardened criminals. It smacks of fanaticism."
- Philadelphia is Closing 23 Schools While Building A $400 Million Prison
- New data shows school "reformers" are full of it—"Poor schools underperform largely because of economic forces, not because teachers have it too easy." Salon
- Math Is Hard? No, Reading Is Hard
- Mozilla, Reddit, 4Chan join coalition of 86 groups asking Congress to end NSA surveillance
- Ai Weiwei: NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China
- Former CIA Analyst: Snowden Did The Right Thing
- Fire James Clapper—"The Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress about NSA surveillance. What else will he lie about?"
- The NSA’s Word Games Explained: How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers
- Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You, If Someone In Government “Happens to Take a Dislike to You”
- Senator Russ Feingold Correctly Predicted How The Patriot Act Would Be Abused; Too Bad He Got Voted Out Of Office
- George Takei Fears NSA Spying Will Lead to Something Much Worse
- NYC Bomb Plot Details Settle Little In NSA Debate
- Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’
- Rep. Alan Grayson: The NSA Can Read This E-Mail, Unfortunately—"I'm introducing a bill that I call the 'Mind Your Own Business Act'. This bill prohibits our government from spying on us, or collecting data on us, unless there’s probable cause that you have committed or you will commit an act of terrorism or similar criminal offense."
- The Daily Show: Good News! You're Not Paranoid - NSA Oversight
