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Spiering, Hendrik, Concealed TV Violence; Proved effect op aggression not accepted by society; Translated from: NRC 6 April 2002 
Violence on TV leads to aggression, Science wrote last week. Psychologists already knew this. 
The question is: What to do against it? Involvement of the parents will help.

Valk, Guus, Big school, less view on the child; Research on school drop outs; translated from: NRC 19 December 2001

More and more money is spent to school drop outs. Nevertheless: practice fails. Scarce rates even show an increase of the drop-out's  numbers, says researcher L. van Tilborg. [...]
"In secondary education, schools are merged into big school communities. There are created big centers for secondary education. By that the problems of the individual students have become less visible. Before that scaling up, it was more or less a matter of counting heads. That change was at the expense of students who have problems at school. In smaller schools they may show up better."

Zero tolerance strikes again; Clark County School District: Expel first, questions later, By Joe Schoenmann, Las Vegas Weekly, 28 June 2001

'It's all part of what Allen Lichtenstein, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, calls the district's "zero intelligence," rather than "zero tolerance," policy.'

Zweers, Arnold, Educationalists Want Teacher Back to the Classroom; translated from: Wegener Dagbladen, 16 april 2002

Tack has to be radically changed in education. The computer may remain, but has to give up its dominant role at school. The teacher must prominently return to the classroom, returning as a model figure. Also, the schools must become smaller and more 'personal', in order that students and teachers will know each other better.
This is the message from a group experts, educationalists, philosophers and psychologists, who yesterday presented the report Vitally learning; Plea for a Turn in Education.