What do league tables do?
Rank schools according to the performance of their students, much like football teams are ranked after each round.
What's the problem with them?
They ignore the social, economic and cultural differences between
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The community campaign Save Solar Systems tried to construct a solar power station from cardboard boxes and tin foil on the steps of state Parliament on January 23 to protest against the lack of government support for the planned Mildura solar power station.
On January 18, the 250 Tamil asylum seekers in Merak, Indonesia, had spent 100 days on their boat in appalling conditions. This is despite almost half of them being already recognised by the United Nations as refugees.
The 鈥渙pen letter鈥 published below has been initiated by the . CHAN is calling for individuals and organisations to add their names to the statement, You can add your name
Left-wing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said that a conspiracy to destabilise his country, funded by the right-wing factions in the United States, has been uncovered, a January 4 Juventud Rebelde article said.
Avatar is a visually stunning marvel of film technology, as many reviewers will tell you. But what really stands out in James Cameron's newest film is its unabashed critique of corporate greed 鈥 and its inspiring tale of solidarity and resistance against occupation.
Since 1993, oil giant Texaco, owned by Chevron since 2001, has been fighting an ongoing legal and publicity battle against an unlikely adversary.
Emergildo Criollo, 51, is a community leader of the indigenous Cofan nationality and has lived in Dureno since his small community was displaced from their ancestral lands. Since a massive oil spill in the 1960s contaminated the Aguarico River, his
It was pretty clear that Democrat candidate Martha Coakley鈥檚 goose was cooked before the polls closed in the January 19 Massachusetts election to fill deceased Democrat Ted Kennedy鈥檚 seat in the US Senate.
United States: 'Post-racial' reality
"According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in November 2009 unemployment for whites was 9.3%, but 15.6% for Blacks 鈥 Long-term unemployment 鈥 is twice as high for African Americans.
"Black
The ring of mighty warships off the coast of Port-au-Prince is a stark symbol of the true intentions of the U.S. government in its "humanitarian" mission following Haiti's devastating earthquake.
Waving banners saying 鈥淵es to expropriation!鈥 workers from the supermarket chain Exito celebrated the decision of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to nationalise the French-Colombian owned transnational company for speculation offences on January 17.
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