One Laptop per Child Provides Children of Afghanistan Access to a Modern Education (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—-The One Laptop per Child Foundation , a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a modern education, has just delivered 774 XO laptop computers to students and teachers of the Zarghona Ana middle school in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

More home-schooled children on child protection register (Times Online)

Children taken out of school to be taught at home by their parents are twice as likely to be on the child protection register, an expert warned today.

Curious kids; How to spark your child’s natural interest in science (The Bulletin)

Anyone who has fed a baby in a highchair has experienced it: The child throws a dish and watches it hit the floor. You pick it up. It gets thrown again. And again.He isn’t trying to annoy you. He’s learning science.“They’re creating theories about how the world works,” said Joyce Duckles, a doctoral candidate in human development at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education. “It’s …

Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan and the GSMA Announce ‘1GOAL: Education for All’ Mobile Campaign at the Mobile World … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

BARCELONA, Spain—-Her Majesty, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan joined the GSMA today to announce the 1GOAL: Education for All mobile campaign, the world’s largest cause-related campaign ever undertaken. 1GOAL is an initiative to ensure that every child in the world has the opportunity to go to school by 2015.

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