Saving the Smart Kids
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Are schools leaving the most gifted children behind if they don't allow them to skip ahead?
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Forget shuttling kids between sports and tutors or enduring a long commute to live near a better school: improving a child's chance of success may be as simple as a regular, leisurely family dinner.
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Comment is free: Alexander Chancellor:  Most people aspire to achieve financial security for the children. It seems odd that someone rich should aspire to the exact opposite
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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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When Congress decided to appropriate $2 million in fall 2001 to help D.C. kindergartners and first-graders learn to read, city school officials were told that the money could be spent only on the Voyager Expanded Learning literacy program, a new product with virtually no track record. They had ju...
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âWhen we started to look at how to provide a quality education for our students, what became very clear was that the future is digital,â says Carl Rose, executive director of the Association of Alaska School Boards (AASB). âWe needed to ensure that our kids not only had the skill-sets required by the state, but also had the digital literacy capability to use those skills. Thatâs when the concept of 1 to 1 learning began to make sense.â And today, the MacBook, iLife, iWork, and Apple Professional Development are helping the AASB bring its 1 to 1 learning initiative to fruition.
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Savvy teachers individualize instruction using Internet and other tech tools.
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By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 22--UNION TWP. -- Northwest Area High School students will have access to more computers, and teachers will have more high-tech "smart boards," thanks to a $67,000 state grant.
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Primary schools and parents are to be given advice on how to help young children stay safe online.
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Disadvantaged children lagging a full year behind before they start school.
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There are big variations in how many children from different neighbourhoods go to university.
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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing worldâs children, is reaching out to the public through an interesting marketing campaign.
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Move over, slackers. Generation Y is hitting the workforce, tech gadgets in hand and eyes firmly on their careers. Now, if only they had some people skills & or patience ... or &
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The One Laptop Per Child Project, placing technology with developing nations, could revolutionize education.
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An increasing number of parents want to spend their often-scarce leisure time with their children, doing something enriching and educational.
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Looking to make a smart start? Consider these ideas.
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As children head back to school savvy  teachers are looking for the best ways to help students  maximize their learning potential.