News tagged with zero tolerance laws
Zero tolerance, zero effect: Stats show laws 'inert'
As college administrators, social scientists and law enforcement officials across the country continue to debate whether the drinking age should be 18 instead of 21, a Sam Houston State University economist challenges a related ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Underage drinking laws reduce future criminal behavior
Do strict underage drinking laws really have a positive impact on society? A recent study finds that strictly enforcing possession of alcohol under the legal age or PULA (also known as PAULA) laws on teenagers reduces the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Brazil files suits against Twitter on police traps
The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against Twitter and its users in a bid to stop publication of messages alerting drivers to police speed traps and drunk-driving checkpoints.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Cyber-school students: Pentagon snubs our service
(AP) -- Students graduating from the growing ranks of online high schools are running into a hurdle if their goal is to join the military: The Pentagon doesn't want many recruits with non-traditional diplomas.
May 09, 2011 |
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Cocaine is found at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
A packet of white powder that was found at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle launches, has tested positive for cocaine, NASA's Inspector General's office said Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2011 |
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MIT historian examines path of war in new book
"Japanese psychology," wrote Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan at the outset of World War II, is "fundamentally unlike that of any Western nation." The Japanese mentality “cannot be measured ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, study shows
A new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen (Civil Rights Project at UCLA) and Russell Skiba (Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University) says Middle schools across the country are suspending ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Zero tolerance ineffective in schools, study finds
Zero tolerance policy in schools - which can mandate automatic punishment for weapons, drugs, profanity and various forms of disruptive behavior - is failing to make students feel safe, contends a new study by two Michigan ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 10, 2010 |
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Stopping rape as an object of war
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is a disturbing truth that sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) is used as a war tactic in developing nations. Silvia Dominguez, assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Nanotechnology: A risky frontier?
Inside a cramped back room at Rushford Hypersonic, a start-up headquartered in southeastern Minnesota, sits a cube-like machine that throws a mean atomic fastball. At the push of a button, the reactor hurls atoms toward a ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 05, 2009 |
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As graduation rates go down, school ratings go up
A new study by researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas-Austin finds that Texas' public school accountability system, the model for the national No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), directly contributes to lower ...
Feb 14, 2008 |
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