Intel decided to compete with the not-for-profit OLPC (one laptop per child) program with its Classmate project. Their laptop will be more expensive and definitely for profit. Is it fair to view children from the poorest nations as a MARKET?
An idling minivan with a 2-year-old inside was driven away from a store parking lot but then quickly returned by a thief who "has to have some kind of heart," the boy's mother said.
Authorities said Friday they have arrested 40 suspects and seized thousands of videos, CDs and DVDs as part of a yearlong crackdown on child pornography.
-- Convicted child killer Ward Weaver survived a stabbing by an inmate barber at the Snake River Correctional Institution, authorities said.
The survey found that Internet safety is a relatively new health concern amongst parents. Women were more likely to rate it as a big problem; 32% of women report Internet safety as a big problem compared with only 21% of men. Internet safety had no differences in proportion of concern by education status, income level or marital status.
As Congress begins to consider reauthorization of the Bush Administration's 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, The Nation asked Linda Darling-Hammond, a leading education expert, to examine the law, its consequences and prospects for improving the legislation. Those responding in this forum include sociologist and author Pedro Noguera, longtime educato
Ask almost any teacher or principal, and they will tell you that testing has gotten out of hand. The biggest complaint is directed at the federal No Child Left Behind law. The law requires that schools test all students in grades 3 through 8 once per year in reading and math.
There is a new crime parents need to be concerned about. You have probably heard of identity theft. While you may have taken steps to protect yourself, did you ever think you needed to protect your children from identity thieves?
The Justice Department is conducting a probe of a $6 billion reading initiative at the center of President Bush's No Child Left Behind law, another blow to a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of interest and cronyism, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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he Bush Administration has been using the Reading First program to reward political cronies and ideological allies, ignoring a legal mandate to make funding decisions that reflect "scientifically based research," according to federal investigators. These and other findings are detailed in a report by the Inspector General of the U.S. Depa
he Bush Administration has been using the Reading First program to reward political cronies and ideological allies, ignoring a legal mandate to make funding decisions that reflect "scientifically based research," according to federal investigators. These and other findings are detailed in a report by the Inspector General of the U.S. Depa
Hey, this teacher did good! Read it. Anderson County school officials said a teacher put herself in harm's way when a dad who had earlier lost custody of his son tried to kidnap the 6-year-old boy last week.
You love your kid, don't you? I mean, you wouldn't want to leave him sitting in a soggy sack of his own urine, right? Of course you wouldn't. You aren't a monster, after all.
Bono promises to have decent working conditions and to abstain from employing child labor. According to the factory manager in Lesotho, Thabang Kholumo, the wages paid are 600 rand a month. This is a little over 50 cents an hour assuming a 40-hour work week.
A 33-year-old woman was arraigned Sunday on charges alleging she offered to let an undercover investigator take pornographic photos of her 7-year-old daughter and have sex with the girl, authorities said.
THE ONION RADIO NEWS with Doyle Redland reporting: An 83-year-old woman you've never met before took almost ten minutes today to fuss over your child's hair and attempt to stroke it.
I asked God to take away my pain.God said, No.It is not for me to take away,but for you to give it up. I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.God said, No.His spirit is whole,his body is only temporary.
Children who got quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabulary scores in the fifth grade than did youngsters who received lower quality care.
More than 50 GOP members of the House and Senate -- including the House's second-ranking Republican -- will introduce legislation today that could severely undercut President Bush's signature domestic achievement, the No Child Left Behind Act, by allowing states to opt out of its testing mandates.
A city-wide manhunt came to an end early Saturday morning when a missing mother of two and her boyfriend were arrested. 19-year-old Valerie Lopez and her boyfriend Jerry Salazar were found in the I-35 and Zarzamora area. They'd been on the run since Wednesday.
China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say.
Ward, who is married, had sexual encounters with the 14- and 15-year-old boys at various locations, including in the school, at a motel, in a park and behind a restaurant, from December to this month, according to arrest warrants.
President Bush encouraged governors Monday to support his call for changing the tax code to help more people buy private health care insurance, but did not address their pleas to increase funding for a health care program that insures millions of children of the working poor.
Bobby Brown arrested outside of his daughter's school.
A flood opened up a hole near a septic tank, revealing a stash of videotapes showing a man having sex with children and leading to the man's arrest, the FBI announced Wednesday.
Sharing the blame with others isn't enough to save a woman from being convicted of murder in the death of her 3-year-old foster son, who was bound in a blanket and packing tape and left in a closet, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday.
Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness. And in Oklahoma, 400 students were out sick with the flu, though no schools were closed, authorities said. Still, a federal h
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A Woonsocket mother and her boyfriend are headed to trial on charges they had intercourse in front of the woman's 9-year-old daughter as a way to teach the girl about sex.








