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"This is not only about their social and economic future; it’s about ours."

when used properly, social media tools can boost student engagement, link students to content experts and real-world examples of classroom lessons, and help them establish an online body of work.

Different city departments are crowdsourcing answers to problems for two reasons: Others know the answers, and smaller companies have innovative ideas that the government doesn’t generally see.

The study, posted online on Wednesday by the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, is the largest to date of such extraordinary cases and is likely to alter the way that scientists and parents think and talk about autism, experts said.

Beginning in fall 2013, all incoming students will be required to purchase an iPad mini, which will come loaded with the student’s summer reading and core curriculum texts, created by Lynn faculty. Priced at $475, the iPad mini will cost half as much as students were paying for print versions of their course readers, and they will get to keep the device.

"The evidence is overwhelming: The earlier we invest in our children, the healthier, more productive lives they will have. Taxpayers win, too, since every dollar we invest in early childhood education saves $7 in the future. Today I propose to make the largest single investment in early childhood education in Vermont’s history." Governor Peter Shumlin (D), Vermont.

The scene in New Hampton is playing out in more than 800 classrooms and other settings involving 40,000 learners across Iowa this year through the Scale-Up initiative of the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council.

The "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11463 report, which Augustine helped develop, concluded that the only way to solve this problem is by promoting innovation.

"School layouts can influence a child’s development by as much as 25 percent over the course of an academic year."