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A couple of weeks ago The New York Times came out with an article about “elite” Korean schools which groom their students to enter Ivy League universities.
Reading the following passage made me reminisce about my high school alma mater, which with its reputation and demanding curriculum, such stories are not unusual at all:

One graduate was [...]

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The newspapers and airwaves the other day were filled with the saddening news of an 11-year-old killing herself over poverty in Davao City:
Using a thin nylon rope, 12-year-old Mariannet Amper hanged herself in the afternoon of November 2. She was a sixth grader at the Maa Central Elementary School.
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Along with her diary, the Ampers also [...]

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Not more than a week after the case of a student who died after being made to eat pencil shavings by her teacher, yet another teacher put her students to humiliation — and this time had the gall to defend herself.
Susana Quiambao, a Grade 6 teacher of New Mabuhay Elementary School in General Santos City, [...]

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I came across a very commendable project on the net in the form of Massachusets Institute of Technology Media Lab’s quest to produce $100 laptops. They envision it alongside another, more daunting but every bit as commendable quest: One Laptop per Child, where they seek being able to provide one laptop per child in every [...]

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