Courses on blogging are now cropping up, and we can't be far away from the Columbia School of Bloggerism.

WSJ: America's Newest Profession: Blogging – Mark Penn, WSJ.com

With global warming and no economic alternative to scarce petrol, it may not be feasible to go on living 20km away from everything school, work, babysitter, Starbucks.

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Primarily, it wanted to take hiring authority away from school principals by requiring that laid-off teachers be hired back.

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The worry I already had for my son being away from home or school is now magnified right at the time he wants to be more independent.

CNN: Helpless as my son, 13, was profiled, cuffed

If the six brightest pupils were whisked away from the comprehensive where I am a pupil, Benton Park in Leeds, there would be no school newspaper, no debating society, no Oxbridge entrance and no history society.

ECONOMIST: Letters

It is important for college students to remember that some of their classmates from high school may not be carrying a book bag across campus, but a rifle across a battlefield far away from home.

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