Chicago Tribune: New children's museum site
--"The popular Chicago Children's Museum has settled on a new site in Grant Park after ruling out several other options, including a controversial plan for the north end of the park."

BBC News: New laws will aid young workers
--"The new regulations will help protect the tens of thousands of school-aged workers in Northern Ireland."

BBC News: Dirty water 'kills 1.5m children'
--"More than 1.5m children under five die each year because they lack access to safe water and proper sanitation, says the United Nations children's agency."

Times of Malta: Young scientists in 'rewarding' Stockholm experience
--"Austrian teenagers Michael Kaiser and Johannes Kienl developed an advanced de-icing system for aircraft. Johannes Burkart and Alexander Joos, from Germany, examined the flight curves of table tennis balls and 19-year-old Tomasz Wdowik, a Pole, carried out a complex organic chemistry synthesis of a potential new drug for heart disease."

Forbes: Most Uninsured Children's Parents Work
--"Most of the 9 million uninsured children in the U.S. live in homes where at least one parent works full time. In more than one-quarter of the cases, there are two working parents."

People's Daily Online: Chinese children bid farewell to gender discrimination in child-friendly schools
--"Dad is reading a newspaper and Mum is doing housework -- images such as these are no way to illustrate the family relationship in "child-friendly school" textbooks. "Schools using textbooks with pictures like that are not gender responsive and will not be termed child-friendly schools," said Anjana Mangalagiri, an official with the UNICEF Office for China."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: A Moment With ... Jack Prelutsky, America's first children's poet laureate
--"Wednesday night in Chicago, Prelutsky, 66, was named the nation's first children's poet laureate, courtesy of the non-profit Poetry Foundation."

Fox News: Judge Dismisses Most of No Child Left Behind Lawsuit
--"A federal judge dismissed most of the claims in Connecticut's challenge to the No Child Left Behind law Wednesday on jurisdictional grounds, the state's attorney general said."