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This is a great talking point for kids. Ask them what they think about the following story. Was the Congressman wrong? Anti-Immigration Crowd Applauds Congressman’s Assurance That Young Girl’s Father May Be Deported BY ESTHER YU-HSI LEE ON AUGUST 19, 2013 AT 10:26 AM At a town hall in Mursfreeboro, Tenn., 11-year-old U.S. [...]
What happens when your student is in a district that is unaccredited? And what if there is a school choice program in place that is controversial. What would it feel like to be one of the kids inaugurating this program? How do kids feel about being bussed 22 miles to [...]
But it seems like appropriate territory for conversations between parents and children. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2013 ABOUT US ARCHIVES HOW TO USE THIS SITE (GRADES 2-8) CONTACT Timely, relevant news articles for kids, educators in the classroom and parents at home. >> HOME NEWS ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE ARTS SPORTS POLITICS ESL IN-CLASS [...]
05:00 AM ET Iris scans are the new school IDs By Laurie Segall and Erica Fink, CNNMoney New York (CNNMoney) - Kids lose their school IDs but they don't often lose their eyeballs. That's one of the reasons why a growing number of schools are replacing traditional identification cards with iris scanners. By [...]
As he hovers between life and death, after being on life support for five weeks, Nelson Mandela's hospitalization provides an opportunity to talk to kids about the role he played in abolishing apartheid. http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/11/world/africa/nelson-mandela---fast-facts
I was looking for a way to talk to kids about the Treyvon Martin case and found this article from the Points of View Debate blog site. It will be up to individual parents to decide how to talk about the many controversial aspects of the case. It goes beyond [...]
FUTURE THINKING| 4 July 2013 The teenage scientist revolutionising cancer detection Pancreatic cancer 's high death rate is partly blamed on the difficulty of early detection. Teenage scientist Jack Andraka has come up with a cheap and simple way to test for it. Pancreatic cancer is a killer – [...]
Girl Power June 6th, 2013 When we see our cell phone batteries constantly running low, most of us just groan at the need to re-charge it — yet again. Ugh. One 18-year old, on the other hand, quit complaining … and did something about it. Now it’s earning her a [...]
CHICAGO (CBS) – A 3rd grader from the South Side has become an Internet sensation, after delivering a rousing speech at a rally against school closings earlier this week. WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports there have been more than 88,000 views on YouTube of 9-year old Asean Johnson speaking at the [...]
An inspiring story about our youth! May 7th, 2013 What’s SPPRAK? The latest toy, the newest dance craze … a big typo? Are you a SPPRAK? We bet you are. It is an acronym (which means that each letter in SPPRAK is the beginning letter of a word). But [...]