College-educated Americans are increasingly uninterested in teaching jobs so Arizona has begun to recruit from abroadOn a recent sweltering morning in a public high school in a dusty town in the central Arizona desert, students in an advanced physics class hovered over beakers and flame-testing dishes. With each experiment,
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Caffeine hit: South Korea bans coffee from every school
Action follows reports of students suffering palpitations as they go through high-pressure education systemSouth Korea is set to ban the sale of coffee in schools in an effort to promote healthier choices among pupils and teachers. All vending machines and snack kiosks in primary and secondary schools will stop selling
‘I’ve been sick in the chest’: Tobacco fields take toll on Indonesian children
In a country that is the worlds fifth-largest tobacco producer, children work despite labour lawsAs a young girl, Julaeping Putri loved to play, even take naps, among the fresh mounds of tobacco leaves piled around her home on the Indonesian island of Lombok. Her mother, Nurul Huda, thought nothing of