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1 min ago | Foster's Daily Democrat

Sibling aggression linked to poor mental health

"It's not fair!" " "You're not the boss of me." "She hit me!" "He started it." Fights between siblings - from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom - are so common they're often dismissed as simply part of growing up.

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Related Topix: University of New Hampshire, Family, Kids, Pediatrics, Medicine

1 min ago | South Wales Argus

Parents' fears over threat to Oakdale and Pontllanfraith schools

PARENTS of pupils at a top-rated school are calling for answers following an announcement by Caerphilly council that it could one of two to close in the county.

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4 hrs ago | World Magazine

U.S. education still failing, despite federal improvement programs

Second-grader Tammer Ali does a worksheet in an English Language Learner summer school class at the Cordova Villa Elementary School in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

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Related Topix: Family, Rancho Cordova, CA

5 hrs ago | The Baltimore Sun

Europe faces uphill battle over youth unemployment

European Union leaders will hold a summit later this month to tackle the growing scourge of youth unemployment.

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Related Topix: Family

7 hrs ago | Daily Mail

Police probe into secondary school shooting after teacher 'fired starter pistol in pupil's face'

A starter pistol was allegedly fired into a pupil's face by a teacher at a secondary school in Jersey.

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Related Topix: Family, Jersey County, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, Magic Mike, Dear John

8 hrs ago | Al Bawaba

Saudi Arabia spends 5.6% of GDP on education

In this research note, Markaz analyzes status of the GCC education sector and highlights its current and expected enrollment trends and market size.

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Related Topix: Family

12 hrs ago | MediLexicon

Transgender Adolescents Can Safely Receive Hormone Treatment To Halt Puberty

Hormone treatment to halt puberty in adolescents with gender identity disorder does not cause lasting harm to their bones, a new study finds.

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Related Topix: Family, Transgender, Netherlands, World News, Health

Tue Jun 18, 2013

BBC News

Poor pupil cash 'plugging budgets'

Schools are facing increasing pressure to spend money aimed at very poor pupils, known as the pupil premium, to plug holes in budgets, a report says.

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Related Topix: Family

The Capital-Journal

KU education dean flunks rating system

Education deans at two Kansas public universities criticized Tuesday a think tank's report of U.S. teacher-training programs that concludes too many mediocre graduates have been making their way into classrooms.

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Related Topix: Family, University of Kansas, Education Etc., Kansas State University, Washburn University, Pittsburg State University

WLTI-FM Syracuse

11-Year-Old's Hidden Camera Documentary Exposes School Lunch

It's the documentary that audiences and film critics are eating up. In a covert six-month mission to expose the inside world of school lunches, 11-year-old Zachary Maxwell made Yuck: A 4th Grader's Documentary About School Lunch when he was a fourth-grader at a New York City public school.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Family

New York Daily News

Roommates transform absent friend's bedroom into pre-teen girl paradise

Tom, above, spent two months overseas and returned home to find his room transformed from a shabby crash pad into a pre-teen princess lair.

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Related Topix: Family

NewsandSentinel.com

Common Core foes make pitch

Hoping to facilitate discussion and expose a different viewpoint, members of the Chamber of Commerce of the Mid-Ohio Valley and several educators took part in a presentation on educational standards Monday from a group concerned about the over-reaching efforts of the federal government.

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Related Topix: Core, WV, Family, Wood County, WV

UnionLeader.com

Judge strikes down state education tax credit program, appeal expected

The state's new education tax credit program is unconstitutional because it diverts tax payments to religious schools, a superior court ruled Monday.

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Related Topix: Family, Maggie Hassan, US Governors, New Hampshire, Strafford County, NH, John Lynch, Education, Home Schooling

Iol.co.za

Eleven killed in Nigeria

Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria's north-east, leaving 11 people dead including seven students, the military said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Family

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Health News Digest

Obesity Associated with Hearing Loss in Adolescents

Obese adolescents are more likely than their normal-weight counterparts to have hearing loss, according to results of a new study.

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Related Topix: Audiology, Medicine, Family, Otolaryngology, Columbia University, Life, Food, Nutrition

The Victoria Advocate

Texas Zoo begins its kids camp to learn about being a keeper

Most of the 12 pre-teen girls on the Texas Zoo's Zoo Explorer Camp on Monday afternoon hovered nearby.

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Related Topix: Family, Goliad, TX

Foster's Daily Democrat

Leader, Achiever Award for Tri City Christian Academy senior

Tri City Christian Academy senior Kristen Hearn was recognized on June 5 in Concord at the State House as one of 29 recipients in New Hampshire for Comcast's Leaders and Achievers Award.

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Related Topix: Family, Elmira College, Elmira, NY

This is Guernsey

Children more at risk on roads

The proportional share of death and serious injury on the roads involving children aged under five is at the highest level for 10 years, according to a report.

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The Richmond Review

Private schools top Fraser Institute's B.C. secondary school rankings for 2012

Surrey's Southridge School was the only non-Vancouver school in the top five of the Fraser Institute's secondary school rankings for 2011-12.

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Anarkismo Newswire

Remembering and Learning from the Past: The 1976 Uprising and the African Working Class

This year [2006] marks the 30th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa, which marked the start of the fall of apartheid, and inspired activists worldwide.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Africa, Family,