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The National Institutes of Health and a nonprofit group, Common Sense Media, have another reason for President-elect Barack Obama to keep urging parents to “turn off the TV.”In what researchers call the first report of its kind, a review of 173 studies about the effects of media consumption on children asserts that a strong correlation exists between greater exposure & adverse health outcomes. -
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"If this verdict stands, it means that every site on the internet gets to define the criminal law," stated senior legal policy analyst Andrew Grossman for the Heritage Foundation. "That's a radical change. What used to be small-stakes contracts become high-stakes criminal prohibitions." -
1voteWe are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the screen, the subjective again trumps the objective. The past is a rush of data streams cut and rearranged into a new mashup, while truth is something you assemble yourself on your own screen as you jump from link to link.
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The reasons can be as much qualitative as quantitative, but once you add them all up, school districts are finding the answer is yes. -
1voteSince becoming D.C's first schools chancellor in summer '07, Rhee, just 38, has become the most controversial figure in US public education & the standard-bearer for a new type of schools leader nationwide. To Rhee & her fellow reformers, schools can, by themselves, produce successful students. To her opponents, schools aren't enough, however “successful” their students.
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1voteSome grandparent enthusiasts say Web Cams makes the actual separation harder. Others are so sustained by Web cam visits that they visit less in person. No one quite knows what it means to a generation of 2-yr-olds to have slightly pixelated versions of their grandparents as regular fixtures in their lives.
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Open source software is sometimes called Free software or FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), because of four tenets of freedom that are a core part of the philosophy of the open source movement. First, you are free to run these software packages for any purpose--you generally don’t pay anything to acquire them. Second, the source code is free--you can see the code and understand how it works. Third, you are free to copy and redistribute the package to anyone you want. And finally, you are free to modify the software however you like, and to release those modifications. -
1voteAre you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.
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Macarthur study shows online important for teen development -- but by what metrics -
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An attorney for a suspended Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher said Thursday she never intended for the public to view negative comments she made about students on Facebook. But the case is now part of a national debate that pits teachers' right to free expression against how communities expect them to behave.
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