Education Minister Launches ?My Family Reads Project?
DUBAI - UAE Education Minister, Dr Hanif Hassan launched on Saturday, the ?My Family Reads? Project at the Sheikha Bint Saeed Primary School for Girls in Ajman to encourage students to read and gain more knowledge.

Why Sasha and Malia Will Go to Sidwell Friends
The Obamas picked a prominent Quaker school for their girls, and it is a good match for their spiritual and philosophical outlook

Family Hopes To Keep Teacher's Legacy Alive With Children's Book
A teacher's family is using her love of children and education to keep her legacy alive.

Family Life Center Providing Education To Parents
The Family Life Center is able to provide education and counseling to parents.

Courting Malia and Sasha
After visiting the D.C. public school system and two prestigious private institutions, Michelle Obama chose the elite Sidwell Friends for her children. NEWSWEEK imagines how educators might have lobbied the future First Lady.

Real Issues - Education, Family Law, Violence
'O for a muse of fire' Asking the right questions about family law A culture of violence

Children collect coins to raise funds for Family Sunshine Center
About 30 girls in Gwendolyn Thomas' seventh- and eighth-grade physical education class found ways to scrimp and save for a month and were able to raise $64.50 for the Family Sun shine Center.

Fits and faints due to psychological disease
Patients who present to doctors with fits, fainting attacks and dizziness, for which there is no physical explanation are frequently suffering from an undiagnosed psychological disorder.

Fine dining and auctions featured at Bite of the Arts
GRAY - Fine food and wine along with an auction that offered more food and wine as prizes marked Friday's 12th annual Bite of the Arts gala.It is the main fundraising event for the John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University.

Family planning bill headed for defeat
MANILA (AFP) - The Roman Catholic church on yesterday said it has sufficient support in the Philippine congress to defeat a controversial family planning bill promoting sex education and the use of contraceptives.

Six-year-old uses fire safety education to save family
?Get down and crawl mommy,? Barbi Skaggs heard as she awoke to a smoke-filled house on the morning of Oct. 25.

EKU COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ANNOUNCES THIRD YEAR OF TEACHER SABBATICAL PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATORS
Eastern Kentucky University?s College of Education is looking for 16 PK-12 educators to join with university faculty next spring to address educational reform issues.

British consumers' clamour for ever lower telephony, mobile and TV bills has created a price war
In part, British consumers are to blame for the thousands of job losses announced this week in the communications industry. Our clamour for ever lower telephony, mobile and TV bills has created a price war among some of the country's biggest brands. According to Ofcom's 2008 Communications Market report, the average monthly household spend on communications - which includes TV, mobile and ...

Saudi royals' Mayo Clinic trip buoys local economy
ROCHESTER, Minnesota (AP) -- Members of Saudi Arabia's royal family spent enough during a visit to the Mayo Clinic to give the area's economy a shot in the arm, according to Rochester, Minnesota, officials.

School to put a charge in tech education
Technical education classes that are squeezed for time and space will get more of both starting in 2010 when a career technical academy opens in Sioux Falls. Advanced classes in other subjects will be offered, too, but the emphasis will be on job training and careers.

PROGRAMS AT MASS AUDUBON'S JOPPA FLATS EDUCATION CENTER
Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center, located at One Plum Island Turnpike in Newburyport, is a natural history education and visitor center that is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday and Monday holidays, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit the Web site at www.massaudubon.org/joppaflats.

Doctor alerted police to 'distressed' mother hours before child killings
The family of a baby and his two-year-old brother who were stabbed to death at home expressed their complete devastation yesterday at the loss of their "beautiful, innocent" children. A senior police officer described the scene inside the home in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, as "something no human being should ever have to see in their life". Police and ambulance crews who attended the house ...

Family-planning bill faces defeatChurch
The Roman Catholic Church on Thursday said it has sufficient support in Congress to defeat a controversial family-planning bill promoting sex education and the use of contraceptives.

Spencer schools celebrate "American Education Week"
American Education Week is Nov. 17-21. This year's theme is: "Great Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility." Spencer schools have several events planned for this special week. Those include:...

Despite Government Support, Inter-Caste Couples in India Still Face Violence in Their Communities
NEW DELHI -- She was a gutsy student leader known for hunger strikes and provocative street theater at universities across the country, exposing the plight of India's beleaguered lower castes. He was a worldly gadfly with a passion for ending nuclear proliferation and exposing environmental crimes.