American parents show up at their children’s schools. A lot. Nearly nine out of 10 attended at least one PTA or other school meeting in the 2011–12 school year, according to data released last week by the Department of Education’s National Household Education Surveys Program. Six out of 1... Read more...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) won a jury verdict of more than $1.05 billion against Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) after a finding that Samsung infringed six of seven patents for mobile devices in the first lawsuit to go before a U.S. jury in a fight for dominance of the global smartphone market. The nin... Read more...
If you love Kim Jong IL like I do, you must visit this tumblr --> http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/ North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il has died of apparent heart failure. He was 69. In a "special broadcast" Monday from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died on a train d... Read more...
For this generation of students to remain competitive with their international peers as adults, they need to start spending more time in school. This week President Obama proposed that American school children extend their time in class, either by lengthening the school day, or spending less tim... Read more...
The UK performs poorly in an international league table showing how many disadvantaged pupils succeed "against the odds" at school. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has studied how pupils from poor backgrounds can succeed academically. It says that "self-confide... Read more...
China, whose $2.45 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves are the world’s largest, is turning bullish on Europe and Japan at the expense of the U.S. The nation has been buying “quite a lot” of European bonds, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to the People’s Bank of China who was part... Read more...
North Korea's military threatened Sunday to launch the "severest punishment" against South Korea for staging massive joint war games with the United States this week. The North's army and people will "deal a merciless counterblow" to the allies "as it had already resolved and declared at home a... Read more...
North Korean ambassador to the UN Sin Son Ho has firmly rejected charges that his country was responsible for the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, in a press conference in New York on Tuesday (Wednesday, June 16 in Asia). Ambassador Sin warned that Pyongyang would respond militarily t... Read more...
People in the United States basically invented the Internet. So U.S. connections must be the fastest and cheapest in the world, right? Not so much. Broadband Internet speeds in the United States are only about one-fourth as fast as those in South Korea, the world leader, according to the Int... Read more...