40 years later, Mich. preschool makes a documented difference
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An intensive preschool program for low-income children in the early 1960s has made a huge difference in their lives, its benefits felt nearly 40 years later, a study shows.
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This place could be Flint, Mich., back in the 1970s, before hard times at General Motors sent the once-prosperous manufacturing city over the cliff.
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FOSHAN, China  - Boxes stacked in the factory window are labeled clearly: "Fisher-Price", "toys", "preschool". The future of the plant, though, is not so clear.
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SOUTH Australia&#39;s students have shown improvement in an international science and mathematics study last held a decade ago, and defied a national trend.
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By Jim Stafford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 13--Seated in front of a monitor in a classroom at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, 84-year-old Fred Edmonds studies a spiral-bound notebook as an instructor explains the basics of computer technology.
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Despite warnings that he was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school, one principal has outlasted his predecessors while producing surprising results.
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The stateâs voluntary public preschool program, which 70 percent of 4-year-olds attend, is one of the most serious attempts to deal with economic inequality anywhere in the country.
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A curriculum shake-up will see children spending more time learning through play at primary school.
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NEW YORK  - Even young children can paint a  picture of their health and well-being, though it doesn't  always match parents' perceptions, research shows.
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The number of American children with chronic health problems such as obesity, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has soared in the past four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and public health-care spending, researchers said yesterday.
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NEW YORK  - Breast-fed children are significantly more likely to do well in measures of stereoscopic vision than are those who received formula during infancy, according to UK researchers.
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Cow's milk allergy persists  longer than previously reported, and the majority of children  may retain the sensitivity into school age, study findings  suggest.
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WASHINGTON  - American children and adults have become a little bit taller over the past 40 years, but a lot heavier, according to government statistics.
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Forty-four years ago, on Sept. 26, 1960, the first presidential debate in American history was held in Chicago. Between 60 million and 70 million Americans watched Richard
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NEW YORK  - A screening process in a  preschool education program can help identify children who  probably have asthma, according to researchers.
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NEW YORK  - Research has shown that even  preschool children can suffer from depression, and now new  evidence suggests their symptoms can be divided into subtypes  in a way that reflects what's seen in adults.
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By CORNELIUS CHAPMAN  This week is the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Zelman vs. Simmons-Harris, the case that upheld the Cleveland school voucher program. Contrary to dire predictions, the sky hasn't fallen.