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Today's Word
nascent a.1. In the act of being born or brought forth.2. transf. In the act or condition of coming into existence; just beginning to be; commencing to form, grow, or develop, etc. a. of mathematical quantities.b. of practices, institutions, qualities, or other abstract concepts. In very frequent use in the 19th c., in a great variety of contexts.
Whats in a number
20 (Herald Sun)
A toddler escaped unharmed after being plucked by a tornado from a Victorian farm house last night and hurled 20m
Headline News
NSW: Ella dies after 12 years of red tape (Daily Telegraph)
Seven-year-old Ella James is the tragic face of a 12-year dispute between Bulli Public School parents and the Roads and Traffic Authority over a local crossing.ACT: Order in the house: schoolgirls put MPs on best behaviour (The Australian)
Federal Parliament has regained its equilibrium after days of excess.TAS: Gun terror at Tassie school (The Mercury)
Teachers at a Tasmanian high school are being counselled after a student knocked on the staffroom door waving a replica pistol yesterday.NSW: Waning schools closed or merged (Sydney Morning Herald)
The State Government will close one high school in Sydney's south-west and is poised to announce the de facto merger of several schools on the northern beaches as the reality of declining Government school enrolments bites.VIC: School resource kit to go ahead (The Age)
The Victorian Education Department will continue with the release of a resource kit encouraging teachers to affirm young people's sexuality, despite Premier Steve Bracks' conservative stance on the issue.UK: 80% of teachers want merit pay (BBC)
Nearly eight out of 10 eligible teachers in England have applied for performance-related pay.USA: Federal data highlight disparities in discipline (EdWeek)
African-American and Hispanic students continue to be suspended and expelled from public schools at higher rates than their white counterparts, according to new data.SING: Open U to offer certificate and diploma courses (Straits Times)
Those who don't want a degree can still pursue courses of interest to them; entry requirements are also less strict. The Open University is throwing its doors wide open to working adults.
IT News
Web sites worry privacy watchdogs (EdWeek)
Critics warn that free Internet services used by schools give companies opportunities to gather detailed personal information from children.Privacy protocol lauded, sort of (Wired)
After three years, the Web's standards body has finally revealed working versions of the Platform for Privacy Preferences, a technical spec that could negotiate Internet privacy preferences on behalf of users. Most critics are very cautiously optimistic.Hijacked Nike.com diverted to Melbourne (AFR)
Nike said it would prosecute "to the fullest extent of the law" hackers who diverted its global website yesterday to the home page of a Melbourne-based activist group.
Sydney 2000
NSW Upper House votes for bailout inquiry (ABC)
The New South Wales Upper House has formally voted for an inquiry into the Government's decision to make a $140 million supplementary payment to the Games organising committee (SOCOG).Push to hurry Bondi stadium (Daily Telegraph)
Work on the controversial Olympic beach volleyball stadium will be extended to 14 hours a day because Games organisers are nervous about meeting their July 31 deadline.300 Games threats spied (The Australian)
More than 300 individuals or terrorist groups have been identified as possible threats to the Olympic Games, Australia's domestic intelligence agency announced yesterday.
News Specials:
Black despair gnaws at the heart of democracy (The Australian)
Living in the leafy suburbs of north-west Washington, it's easy to forget that the capital of the free world is overwhelmingly a black city. Among the clientele of the sidewalk cafes along Connecticut Avenue and those promenading past is barely a sprinkle of black or mixed couples.Victims of 'criminal complacency' (The Guardian)
Children in the world's poorest countries are dying at the rate of almost 200 a hour as a direct result of the failure of governments to fulfil their pledges to slash global poverty.Black life expectancy 100 years behind whites (The Australian)
Indigenous Australians lag 100 years behind the rest of the community in terms of how long they can expect to live, a report that examines health trends over the last century has found.