Where To Educate Your Children
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Across America, these are the best metro areas for primary and secondary education.
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The Conservatives have promised to give parents greater choice of schools. Their "pupil passport" idea is similar to a scheme in Sweden, as BBC education correspondent Mike Baker reports.
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Teach your kids to be better with money than you were at their age.
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There's been a fundamental change in family life, and it has played out over the years in my office. Teachers, pediatricians and therapists like me are seeing children of all ages who are not afraid of their parents. Not one bit. Not of their power, not of their position, not of their ability to ...
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How to talk to your kids about Santa . . . and everything else.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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By Michaela Saunders, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 19--Does having their own computers during the day help elementary students become better writers? Or better understand what they read?   Omaha Public Schools began a program to test those questions last year.
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Teachers are urged to adopt new strategies to help children who fall behind in English and maths.
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Students will soon be taught climate change and how to manage their finances as England&#39;s school secondary curriculum is overhauled to make it more interesting and relevant to children.
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By Kathryn Torney  Paula Downing, from Royal School Armagh, has joined teachers from 21 countries and 43 US states for the Honeywell Educators programme at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Children know best. They see aging for what it is:
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By Anna Jeys BEACH lifeguards set a course for landlocked Birmingham to teach children the dangers of the sea. As thousands of families prepare for seaside holidays, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is touring city schools to teach youngsters how to stay safe.
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Pupils at four primary schools are being given the choice of starting lessons at different times of the day.
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British children as young as four are  being taught about same-sex relationships through fairytales  and storybooks with gay and lesbian characters.
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Children as young as four are being taught philosophy in nursery in a bid to encourage good thinking.
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Prestigious and posh, these five-star facilities educate the offspring of the world's elite.
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(HealthDay News) - Getting young children to exercise is easier if you keep it entertaining, fun and interesting.