By Kendall Stewart
As a teenager, I’m sick and tired of the negative body images projected on girls these days. We’re constantly being told that we are not skinny enough or not pretty enough. Even singer Cheryl Cole of British rock group, The Girls Aloud, has recently said that she has to “watch” her weight – [...]

By Aseem Mehta
Over the past eight years, public schools across the country have been subject to new rules and standards of proficiency and progress for their students. The regulations were a key component of former-President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The success of the policy opens up the possibility of passing [...]