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More than 40% of U.S. teens text while driving, survey reveals The likelihood of teens texting while driving increases with age, research shows. Males are more likely to text than females, and teens who drive and text are also more likely to engage in other risky behaviors. AFP RELAXNEWS TUESDAY, [...]
Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: a threat level hard to assess Authorities are leaning more toward zero tolerance of teenagers who fling around online threats about acts of violence or terrorism. As a result, what might have once merited a slap on the wrist may today result in criminal charges. [...]
The 2013 White House Science Fair May 3, 2013 – Every spring for the last three years the White House hosts the White House Science Fair where children and teens can show off their amazing inventions that are made from everyday commercially available items. This year's fair took place on April [...]
My First Rifle: The business of selling guns for kids By Aaron Smith @AaronSmithCNN May 3, 2013: 2:59 PM ET EmailPrint Chipmunk, a subsidiary of Keystone, sells guns designed for children, along with its sibling subsidiary, Crickett. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The shooting of a two-year-old girl by her five-year-old brother [...]
Mary C. Curtis, an award-winning multimedia journalist in Charlotte, N.C., has worked at The New York Times, Charlotte Observer and as national correspondent for Politics Daily. Follow her on Twitter: @mcurtisnc3 Was the play list at the segregated “white prom” for Wilcox County High School in Georgia scrubbed of [...]
By Jesse Bogan jbogan@post-dispatch.com MANCHESTER • Though 1 billion people live on about $1 a day in the developing world, four Americans who tried to do it for a summer in Guatemala — and failed — have been captivating audiences about their experience ever since. Several clubs at Parkway South High School pooled [...]
Cyber-bullying: The right script helps capture student interest IBy Nancy Fowler, Beacon arts reporter 12:20 am on Wed, 04.17.13 If you want to get kids’ attention when it comes to bullying -- or anything at all -- it helps to understand the lingo. Seventeen-year-old Dasia Vence, who plays popular, mean girl [...]
The People's Pie is just one of the neat games kids can play on the ICivics.org website. Check it out. It's colorful, informative and interactive.
By Motley Fool Staff | Everyone wants to know what's on Warren Buffett's mind. Tens of thousands of investors make the pilgrimage to Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting each spring. Many more read his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders. Lunches with Buffett auction for millions -- last year's went for $3.5 [...]
High school junior, Kyron Birdine of Arlington, Texas was suspended for tweeting a photo of his one sentence essay answer on the STAAR exam. As reported by WFAA News 8, Birdine used his iPad to snap a shot of his answer, "I have the TAKS test to study for, not [...]