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CHILDREN AND FAMILIES HEADLINES
The Wall Street Journal, Shirley S. Wang | March 13, 2012
Anthropologists at the University of California, Los Angeles are studying families at home in an effort to grasp how families with two working parents balance child care, household duties and career. Khan Academy: The Future of Education?
CBS News 60 Minutes, Sanjay Gupta | March 11, 2012
Backed by Bill Gates and Google, Khan Academy aims to offer a free, online and world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Advocates Push for Foster Children to be Appointed Lawyers to Get them out of System Faster
Associated Press | March 11, 2012
A children's rights group says too many foster youth go to court without an attorney to assist and represent them.
For Middle Class Hispanics, Preschool Not an Option
New America Media/Enlace, Irasema Mayoral | March 10, 2012
Children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Head Start and other free and subsidized preschool programs have academic deficits going into kindergarten.
Questions Grow Over Race Discipline Report
NPR, Tell Me More, Michel Martin | March 9, 2012
A civil rights official with the Department of Education says the new data about disproportionate suspensions for students of color is an "opportunity gap tool" for local school districts.
USA Today, Wendy Koch | March 8, 2012
Nearly 1 in 4 high school seniors and 1 in 3 people under age 26 smoke. The tobacco industry's marketing fuels their addiction, says the first U.S. surgeon general's report of youth tobacco use since 1994.
Homeless Youth: The Next Battle for Gay Equality
Associated Press, Verena Dobnik | March 8, 2012
LGBT young people represent a dramatically high proportion of an estimated 600,000 homeless youths across the country - between 20 and 40 percent. The escalating problem has caught the attention of the White House.
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