The Myth of American Meritocracy: How corrupt are Ivy League admissions?
by Ron Keeva Unz, The American Conservative
Dec. 13, 2012 (TSR) - Just before the Labor Day weekend, a front page New York Times story broke the news of the largest...
Harvard University Scandal: Students Found Cheating on ‘Intro to U.S. Congress’ Final Exam
Publisher's Note: Harvard University is investigating allegations that almost half the students in an undergraduate class last spring may have plagiarized or "inappropriately collaborated" on their final exams for...
Cuban Literacy Program has helped over 6.5 Million People in 28 Countries
August 5, 2012 (TSR) - Some 6.5 million citizens in 28 nations are no longer illiterate persons thanks to the Cuban Literacy Program known as “Yes, I Can.” The figure...
New Chinese immigration law to crack down illegal foreigners
July 3, 2012 (TSR) - China's top legislature on Saturday passed a new exit and entry law that stipulates harsher punishments for foreigners who illegally enter, live or work in...
Singapore: Permanent residents and International Students to pay more school fees from 2013
June 28, 2012 (TSR) - Singapore's Ministry of Education announced Tuesday that students who are permanent residents and international students will pay more school fees in both government and government-aided...
History is the enemy as ‘brilliant’ psy-ops become the news
by John Pilger, renowned investigative Australian journalist and international academy award winning documentary film-maker
June 28, 2012 (TSR) - Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children...
Google launches Endangered Language Project and Save 3000 languages
June 23, 2012 (TSR) - Today, Google announced the launch of the Endangered Language Project, "a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about endangered languages." The...
The Need to Enrich Our Knowledge
Special Commentary by Former Cuban President, Fidel Castro Ruz
April 3, 2012 (TSR) - The filmed scenes of the massacre in Libya, starting to be seen, offend for their total absence...
LONDON: A city of children who cannot read
London is in the grip of a literacy crisis. One million people in this great city cannot read.
In London, the home of Charles Dickens, Shakespeare's Globe, and T S Eliot, schools are,...
Electrical brain stimulation improves math skills
Stimulating a particular area of the brain, it turns out, can improve numeracy for at least six months.
