Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students Worldwide

In the wake of divorce, illness, violence and other problems that can unsettle homes, countless young children are liable to experience temporary separations from one or both parents before packing their knapsack for kindergarten.

Should we as parents be able to have access to every score our kids get at school? This is an ABC story we ran today on WHOI today. How Parentconnect.com allows parents to track child grades online before the grade card comes.

Students competing for resources in the classroom while discounting each others’ success are less likely to earn top grades than students who work together toward goals and share their success, according to an analysis of 80 years of research.

A new study published in the March/April 2008 issue of the journal Child Development finds that family wealth might partly explain differences in test scores in school-age children. The study, conducted by researchers at New York University, also found that family wealth is positively associated with parenting behavior, home environment, and children’s self-esteem.

Stories about the “terrible twos” abound in parenting lore. New research published in the March/April 2008 issue of the journal Child Development finds that the way mothers and their 2-year-olds relate to each other affects the quality but not the frequency of conflicts when children are two, and that children’s temperament also plays a role.

Playing numerical board games can improve low-income preschoolers’ number skills, offering a promising way to reduce the discrepancies in numerical knowledge between children from poor families and those from middle-income families.

A University of Michigan study finds that when it comes to achievement gaps within racial groups, catching up over time is common.

An eight-week-long intervention program aimed at parents from low socioeconomic backgrounds reaped significant educational benefits in their preschool-aged children, a University of Oregon research fellow reported today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Star Lawson has dreamed about owning a horse since she was a child. But her dream didn't come true until four decades later, when she rescued a sick, abandoned horse. Today, she and her husband, Bill Lawson, have rescued and given shelter to more than two-dozen horses at their Maryland farm.

New guidance and measures from the Labour Government will make it easier to take pupils in UK on schools trips, with less bureaucracy and more popular destinations.

After five years of effort, states have implemented most of the test-based accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, and now must focus their efforts on improving poor-performing schools that have been identified, according to a new U.S. Department of Education report written by experts from the RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research.