TOP EDUCATORS: Gruesome Video Has No Validity In School.

VIOLENCE; INTERNET in education; BEHEADING; BERG, Nicholas, 1978-2004; TEACHERS; UNITED States education system; SCHOOL administration

Reports that teachers in California, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas have been disciplined or investigated for showing the Internet video of the beheading of American Nicholas Berg in Iraq in May 2004 to students. Argument by two national education leaders that there is no educational value in showing the video or letting students see a decapitation; Paul Houston, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators.