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Reports on the misinformation about toilet paper roll shortage in the U.S. Reaction of consumers toward the news; Alternatives to toilet rolls.

Details the American Educational Research Association Conference held in Seattle, Washington, in April 2001. Concern over the fate of education research under the George W. Bush Administration; Problem over testing programs that determine whether American children are held back a year and whether failing scholars are taken over by their states or school districts; Presentation of papers on high-stakes testing.

The article discusses the plan of "Los Angeles Times" to publish league tables that rate the performance of thousands of individual teachers by name in the U.S. It states that the newspaper will reveal the rankings of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers based on their ability in helping students improve their scores on standardised tests. It notes the plan of the United Teachers Los Angeles, a teaching union, to boycott the newspaper, and calling the move as irresponsible and offensive.

Reports that Laura Spence, the teenager from Tyneside, England, who was rejected to study medicine in Oxford University, is studying at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The article discusses the paper of Jonathan Supovitz, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, that urge the American educators to adapt the English education system. Topics include the role of school teachers to manage the student behavior within a school, the difference between the teaching model in the U.S. and Great Britain, and the effort of U.S. education team to adapt the "Teaching Leaders", a program of Great Britain education system.

The article reports on the reaction of students on the painting made by student Mitchell and also talks about the benefits and shortfalls of school painting and face painting. Face paints are scientifically developedto be used on skin and should have minimal harmful side effects. School paints are thereby designed to go on paper.

The article offers U.S. education news briefs as of August 4, 2017. Education councils in the U.S. have welcomed the U.S. government's promise to divert more funds to schools in the U.S. Research firm, Ofqual, has concluded that U.S.-based examiners are not following rule changes in the area of exam marking.

The article presents news related to education, as of May 2007. A Japanese teacher was dismissed and fined after being caught stealing toilet paper. A U.S. student's decision to urinate in a bottle rather than wait a short while to use the toilet, as requested by the teacher, resulted in an accusation of civil rights violation. British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, who created a dinosaur sculpture from toilet rolls, are helping Thornhill primary school raise money to build an arts block.

Reports on the inclusion of eleven education referendums on the November 2000 presidential ballot papers in six states in the United States. Importance being placed on education in the six states; Main reason why people turn to the ballot process.

Discusses the science and mathematics learning projects in the United States of the Boston, Massachusetts-based education research and development center TERC. Includes the Pringles Challenge in which pupils attempted to send a single crisp in the smallest package across the US; Project to build propeller-driven cars made of paper.

Presents an abstract of a paper on rebuilding teacher professionalism in the United States to be delivered by a Stanford University professor at the `Re-Thinking UK Education: What Next?' international conference to be held in London, England on April 9-13, 1995. Need to involve teachers in educational reform; Details of the 1994 Goals 2000 federal legislation; Standards for teaching.