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There are “fewer children coming to the nurse’s station with headaches, fewer children having problems concentrating on the work, fewer children falling asleep,”

“The Detroit Public School system hopes to convert dozens of schools into charters in the next year or so in a last-ditch effort to cut costs and stop plummeting enrollment.

The plan faces tremendous skepticism from a generation of parents and teachers frustrated from previous reform efforts.”

“They came out in the ’50s in magazines,” Cohen explains. “And then when the next month’s magazine would come in, people would throw away the old one. And those stories were forgotten. And literally it’s been 60 years for some of these stories and very few people have seen them.”

“High above the ground in the branches of a cottonwood tree near the town of Pearblossom, there once lived a mother crow and a father crow — or at least the pair aspired to be parents. But a crafty snake, who lived at the bottom of the tree, showed up like clockwork every day with other plans for their eggs.”

“These kids are spending sometimes a few hours a day going through word lists” to learn the most difficult words in English, linguist Ben Zimmer tells NPR’s Renee Montagne. “Very often, they are coming from immigrant families that really prize learning English as part of becoming assimilated into American culture. So, my hat’s off to all of these young spellers.”

We Care Academy will be hosting our Soul Sessions: An event in honor of Art Education Awareness June 10, 2011 at Kat’s Café on 970 Piedmont Ave,  Atlanta, GA between 5:30pm and 11:00pm  We Care Happy Hour between 5:30 and 8:30, followed by live music till 11:00pm.

Due to budget constraints, many school systems are cutting their art programs.  Studies show that students who participate in the arts have great academic standing and high creative skills.  By cutting the arts programs, children are missing out on the opportunity to express themselves.  We Care Academy’s Keep Arts Alive Campaign was established to help give those students an outlet to their creativity.  As a nonprofit organization We Care Academy focuses on helping our community by providing quality educational and youth development services for Metro Atlanta. With your support and participation We Care Academy will be able to provide a quality visual arts program for students.  For more information visit our website www.wecareacadmey.org. If you know any singers, poets, musicians, or artists who would like to lend their voice in support of our Keep Arts Alive Campaign please contact Marketing and Special Events via email at events@wecareacademy.org subject line “Soul Sessions Entertainment”.

We hope that you’ll be there in attendance in support of Arts Education, and We Care Academy.

“And when I feel the need to pet her,” he says, “I just sort of lean down and pet her. And sometimes, like when I get really stressed out — which doesn’t actually happen that often anymore — she’ll get on my lap.”

“Researchers have found a 20 percent increase in American births at home from 2004 to 2008. Most of the rise was due to an increase in home births among non-Hispanic white women.”

“Activist shareholders pressed company management to halt marketing to kids, even asking the company to retire Ronald McDonald himself.” - “predatory marketing makes it difficult for even the most diligent of parents to impart healthy eating habits” to their children. She asked when the company would stop “substituting public relations for real action”

“The Haitian government has drafted a five-year plan to revamp the system. With funding from donors like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Inter-American Development Bank, the goal is to build 150 new schools, train 5,000 teachers and give all schoolchildren the first nine years of education free.”