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Built into it are interactive activities to help preschoolers, its target audience, learn skills such as shapes and colors.

The inaugural version of the course began Nov. 26 and ends Dec. 14. Sessions also be recorded for students who have missed any session, officials said.

Educational systems train individuals to be miserable by focusing on earning money rather than focusing on something they enjoy and becoming a master at it.

The National Dropout Prevention Center has created a database of research-based programs and information.

Levine notes that 1 in 5 American children and teens meet the criteria for a mental disorder, and the numbers are expected to increase by 50 percent in the coming decade.

California-based CourseSmart now offers new insight into the school homework process by giving instructors a way to monitor pupils’ use of electronic course materials.

Only a few states have developed programs to help improve graduate rates among pregnant girls and young mothers.

"This is not a field for mile-wide, inch-deep managers"

"If college-bound youth with autism gravitate toward STEM majors, then this has the potential to be a silver lining story for a group where gloomy predictions about outcomes in adulthood are more the norm." says study author Paul Shattuck.

Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. "I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android," Negroponte said. "Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android."