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The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. Our public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood. We act for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future. -
1voteWHERE Do the Children Play?” is a PBS documentary, book, and outreach project about the vital importance of open‐ended creative play for the healthy development of children. This kind of play is disappearing from children’s lives because of unsafe neighborhoods that parents’ fear of “stranger danger,” even in safe neighborhoods; the seductiveness of electronic games and entertainment; an increase
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1voteWe help parents find the right games, books, toys, and media for their children that are both fun and have learning value.
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1voteavailable in whole or in parts from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Included in the report are statistics on reading to children. More than 60% of pre-kindergarten children are read to by a family member. That’s up from 53% in 1993. A nice feature of the report is the ability to view it as a pdf or to download tables of data in html or Excel formats.
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1voteMost children can't wait to start kindergarten and approach the beginning of school with awe and anticipation. Kindergartners and 1st graders often talk passionately about what they learn and do in school. Unfortunately, the current emphasis on standardized testing and rote learning encroaches upon many students' joy. In their zeal to raise test scores, too many policymakers wrongly assume that students who are laughing, interacting in groups, or being creative with art, music, or dance are not doing real academic work. The result is that some teachers feel pressure to preside over more sedate classrooms with students on the same page in the same book, sitting in straight rows, facing straight ahead.
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1voteWelcome. We’re glad you’re here to learn more about the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA is an independent US government agency that provides national security “intelligence” to key US leaders so they can make important, informed decisions. CIA employees gather intelligence (or information) in a variety of ways, not just by “spying” like you see in the movies or on TV (though we do some of tha
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1votePORT WASHINGTON, NY, June 5, 2007 – The average age at which children begin using consumer electronic (CE) devices has declined from 8.1 years in 2005 to 6.7 years in 2007, according to The NPD Group’s recently released report, Kids and Consumer Electronics Trends III. The report, which provides insight into the penetration of consumer electronics in kids’ lives today and how this has changed since the earlier 2005 and 2006 studies, measures device usage dynamics and trends.
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1votebibliography of sources about youth internet safetey
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1voteThe mission of the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) is to combat crimes against children by providing high quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners. CCRC is concerned with research about the nature of crimes including child abduction, homicide, rape, assault, and physical and sexual abuse as well as their impact.
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