1. "Possessed" girl barred from school
(Religion/General)

...or a transfer card, but it stated the new school would need a psychological report. Gauteng Department of Education spokesman Charles Phahlane said the principal made a recommendation to help the g...

2. Stop missionary work in schools
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ion above others. The group claim that many schools are disobeying the Constitution and the Department of Education's policy on religion. For them, the law is clear: the curriculum must cove...

3. Public schools flout national laws on religious instruction
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ca  Many South African public (state) schools are blatantly flouting the National Policy on Religion in Education (as published in the Government Gazette 25459 of 12 September 2003, notice 1307) ...

4. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

...ionary, and my spell-checker is foxed by it - the pseudo religion/science which lies at the heart of Steiner education (and also biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine, and cosmetics - Wele...

5. Shofar Christian cult mobilizes in the Western Cape
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

... hope we do not allow them back into our public spaces. 4) Shofar seems to have a negative effect on a real education, such as their hostility towards scientific theory such as the theory of evolutio...

6. Anger over Satanism lesson
(Religion/General)

...." Maré said pupils were exposed to dangers everyday and had to be equipped to handle them. An educational psychologist, Professor Kobus Maree of Pretoria, who regularly worked with adol...

7. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...hey are also the healthiest, as indicated by measures of life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate and infant mortality. Conversely, th...

8. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

.... At the same time, the soldier's letter emphasized something I've increasingly come to believe: our educational system fails to teach science in a way that allows students to integrate it int...

9. Trouble ahead for science
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ligent Design, while many others who supported evolution have. In 2007, Chris Comer, the director of science education for Texas schools, was fired for having done nothing more than forwarding an e-ma...

10. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

... the numbers of Americans who don't believe in evolution, they say. And that work—of arguing, of reeducation, of fighting discrimination against nonbelievers—should take precedence ove...

11. They prayed to cast Satan from my body
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... In a written statement, Watson said: "Mercy Ministries counselling staff are required to have tertiary education and qualifications in counselling, social work or psychology. Staff also particip...

12. Ultra-Orthodox press digitally erases women from images
(Religion/General)

...ten then not, they tend to bar the publication of such photographs. MK Limor Livnat, who formerly served as education minister, received treatment similar to Gavison in the ultra-Orthodox press when ...

13. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

... "I decided to write this book." Ms. Jacoby doesn't expect to revolutionize the nation's educational system or cause millions of Americans to switch off "American Idol" a...

14. God's journal
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... results of the latest creationist research, providing them with new resources for use in their research and education, and in their witnessing to the truth and authority of God's Word." If y...

15. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...ouse is the prison from which teenage victim Joan Booysen fled half-clothed, later thanking MacGyver for her education in escape tactics. Her testimony led to the discovery of Van Rooyen and his acc...

16. 'Crime-solving' gadget on the way
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...ouse is the prison from which teenage victim Joan Booysen fled half-clothed, later thanking MacGyver for her education in escape tactics. Her testimony led to the discovery of Van Rooyen and his acc...

17. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...d by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues". Becta, the government's educational technology agency, is a leading partner in the annual schools award. The judge...

18. Britain cannot put its faith in religiously divided schools
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ntal choice. But the Government does not attempt to meet the choice of every single parent for a child's education. Some parents passionately want their child to play cricket for Yorkshire and Eng...

19. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

... and octogenarians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and atheists; people with elementary-school educations and people with Ph.D.’s. Joshua Greene, a philosopher and cognitive neuro...

20. Questions Delay Creationist Master's Degrees
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

Scientists fearful that Texas was about to approve a program to offer online master's degrees in science education — from a creationist perspective — received some good news Tuesday. T

21. How Evolution REALLY Works
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ng how most of the Young Earth Creationists and people pushing Intelligent Design, clearly don't have an education in the biological sciences. Evolution is the product of Natural Selection AND Mut...

22. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
(Good news/All)

...ly Podcast talkshow produced by the New England Skeptical Society (NESS) in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) : discussing the latest news and topics from the world of the...

23. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...ding: Lack of Controls. Many of these studies failed to control for such intervening variables as age, sex, education, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, marital standing, degree of religiosity, and th...

24. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...elf-help book, consumed by many college-educated readers, is accessible to anyone with a decent eighth-grade education. We should worry about the willingness of so many to believe that the answers to ...

25. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

...as a land grab (in France the Catholic Church was the largest landowner, taxed crops, controlled monopolized education). The most radical of these revolutionary groups, the hébertists (after Ja...

26. School choice 'boosting baptisms'
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...nt parents are less concerned about having their children baptised. Oona Stannard, director of the Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, said it was reassuring that people sought baptism ...

27. Confessions of a Former Iridologist
(Medicine/General)

...y sessions with patients. I ultimately decided to abandon my practice and begin the process of furthering my education. That is where I am now. My goal is to be a practioner of true health care—...

28. Secret Societies Shape Western Politics
(Religion/General)

...evidenced by Egypt's own greatness and the power and influence that Greece had following Pythagoras' education in Africa. In Japan, the author contends that "the social, political and ec...

29. Debunking 'The Secret'
(Paranormal/The Secret / What the Bleep)

...life you want is really no secret at all. If you believe at all in yourself, your abilities, your skill, you education, or wherever your personal strengths lie, then you know that you can change your ...

30. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected say scientists
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ic belief. In 2004, a Pennsylvania school district found itself at the center of a national storm after its education board voted to require that a statement on creationism be read to students when t...