Editorial: Schools should teach MySpace, not ban it

Earlier this year, the House voted 410 to 15 to ban MySpace and other social networking and blogging sites from schools and libraries. The issue is awaiting a vote in the Senate.
An editorial in today's Boston Globe suggests that schools should be allowed to teach how to use this important technology instead of taking this head-in-the-sand approach.

School a danger zone in Iraq

While I would never belittle the problems faced by students in the United States, a Los Angeles Times article makes it clear that Iraqi students have far more to worry about including kidnappings and murder:

But today, across the country, campuses are being shuttered, students and teachers driven from their classrooms and parents left to worry that a generation of traumatized children will go without education. Teachers tell of students kidnapped on their way to school, mortar rounds landing on or near campuses and educators shot in front of children.