 In failing to review teachers, schools shortchange children
| BY TREATING required teacher evaluations as an afterthought, Boston schools are neglecting a powerful tool to improve instruction in the city's classrooms. According to a study by the nonprofit Nati... (photo: WN / Geeta) The Boston Globe
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 One in ten children 'lack the social skills they need to benefit from education'
| More than one in ten children are starting school without the social skills they need to benefit from education, according to a study released today. | Researchers warned that thousands of five-year... (photo: WN / Yolanda) The Daily Mail
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 ¡¥Paco¡¦ turns Argentine children into living dead
A generation of parents in Buenos Aires can only watch in despair as their sons and daughters are consumed by ¡¥paco,¡¦ a lethally cheap drug | Nina Chamorro runs her finger across the montage of phot... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Russell Gilchrest) Taipei Times
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 'Boy, girl, old, young âEuro"anyone can get breast cancer'
| BREAST cancer is no respecter of sex and age – men as well as women and those as young as 10 and as old as 80 can get it. | This was the warning aired by Dr. Joseph Cordero, a consultant in genera... (photo: RSNA) Malaya
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 Children and obese hard hit by swine flu - experts
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who were morbidly obese and school-aged children were much more likely to become seriously ill or to die from H1N1 swine flu, U.S. experts said on Wednesday. A young ch... (photo: IRIN news / Hugh Macleod) The Star
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 School for child labourers remains closed
| R. Arivanantham | It has not functioned for last 8 months; many children have reverted to working as labourers | Deserted: Children at Undialnatham Colony, near Veppanapalli block, in Krishnagiri di... (photo: WN / Geeta) The Hindu
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