An Animated Key To The World Of Young People
Science Daily (press release) - USA
--Animated films produced by children offer wide-ranging insights into how the younger generation see the world around them. This was the conclusion of an extensive project run by the "Zoom" Children's Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Smarter student cards let parents track their kids
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
--Parents of Taipei municipal school students will soon be notified what time their kids arrive at and leave school each day, when a new feature is added to electronic student cards by the Taipei City Government.

MySpace to send US users missing children alerts
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
-- Popular online social network MySpace said Tuesday it will begin sending online alerts to users in certain U.S. regions to help find missing children as part of an expansion of plans to expand safeguards for users.

Feds try to build on No Child Left Behind Act
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
--Five years after the signing of the No Child Left Behind Act, which raised the stakes for standardized testing, the Bush administration has released its plans for the next chapter.

Teen Uses Bubble Wrap to Aid Amputees
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
--Rosenberger was one of about 800 students who entered the contest challenging students in grades 5 through 8 to develop inventions that incorporate Bubble Wrap. Officials said judging was based on originality, creativity, usefulness, benefit to society, marketability and feasibility, as well as overall presentation.

After the shouting, divorce can make children happier
Times Online - UK
--Two studies have found that most children whose parents split up are happy with their new life and do not see divorce as a tragedy...One fifth of the children surveyed, mostly boys, complained that they did not have enough say over where they spent their time.

Study: Majority of teens stay private online
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
--The Pew Internet Project interviewed 935 teens age 12 to 17 from October to November 2006..."There is a widespread notion that every American teenager is using social networks, and that they're plastering personal information over their profiles for anyone and everyone to read," Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher at Pew, said in a statement. "These findings add nuance to that story." 

Give a child a video game for a good job
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
--Proponents of such efforts say video games engage kids in a way that is relevant to their lives, allowing them to learn by doing as they experiment with new social and cultural worlds. Like the US military, some large US corporations have already adapted and use video games to train workers.