In some ways, Jacob Barnett is just like any other 12-year-old kid. He plays Guitar Hero, shoots hoops with his friends, and has a platonic girlfriend. But in other ways, he's a little different. Jake, who has an IQ of 170, began solving 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles at the age of...
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Police officers detain teen without reason and conduct unreasonable search
Two Saskatoon police officers committed "serious" violations of a teenager's charter rights when they detained him without reason and then, because of "spidey sense," invaded his privacy with an unreasonable search, a judge said Tuesday.
The search revealed homemade brass knuckles but Judge...
Jury convicts mom who withheld cancer meds
Jurors dismiss claim that she thought the treatment's side effects could kill her autistic son
LAWRENCE, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman who withheld at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday by jurors who dismissed her claim...
Facebook kicks off 20,000 underage users a day
Are kids slipping through the cracks in Facebook's just-ask age screening approach?
The social networking site kicks off around 20,000 underage users per day, its chief privacy adviser, Mozelle Thompson, told Australia's parliament this week...
Increasingly, Internet Activism Helps Shutter Abusive 'Troubled Teen' Boot Camps
By Maia Szalavitz (http://healthland.time.com/author/maiasz/) Tuesday, April 5, 2011
For the last 40 years, teens with drug problems, learning disabilities and other behavioral issues have been sent to residential facilities to endure "tough love" techniques that are widely known to include...
Inventions by Kids
Most kids are creative -- they color and make up games -- but some kids use their creativity to invent new products.
"Kids are natural innovators," said Jon Dudas, who used to work for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office but is now the president of FIRST, an organization designed to help foster...
4 students cited in protest over tardy fees at Skyline High
SALT LAKE CITY—
Four students were cited and released after a protest Friday morning at Skyline High School.
About 100 students were...
Finland's Educational Success? The Anti-Tiger Mother Approach
Spring may be just around the corner in this poor part of Helsinki known as the Deep East, but the ground is still mostly snow-covered and the air has a dry, cold bite. In a clearing outside the Kallahti Comprehensive School, a handful of 9-year-olds are sitting back to back, arranging sticks, pinecones, stones and […]
Teen dropouts no longer allowed to drive?
A bipartisan measure at the Capitol would forbid teen dropouts from getting driver's licenses.
A bipartisan bill moving through the Legislature would deliver what backers say is tough love to keep kids in school by barring young high school dropouts from getting driver's licenses.
"Driving is...
Increasingly, Internet Activism Helps Shutter Abusive 'Troubled Teen' Boot Camps
For the last 40 years, teens with drug problems, learning disabilities and other behavioral issues have been sent to residential facilities to endure "tough love" techniques that are widely known to include methods of outright physical and psychological abuse.
Whether labeled as boot camps,...
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