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• Education

  

  Annie Leonard's New Story of Stuff-like Series for Kids

  The Story of Stuff treatment is applied to garbage, biodiversity, and...frogs. We bet you can't watch without smiling.

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Education

  

  Young, Educated, and Unemployed: A New Generation of Kids Search for Work in their 20s

  What it's like for 20-somethings to go in search of meaningful work-and not find it.

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks

• Business

  

  Call in the Kids: Young Entrepreneurs Bring New Ideas to the United Nations

  Can young business leaders shake up the world's biggest international organization?

  by Alex Goldmark

• Education

  

  Is Sesame Street's New Partnership with PNC Bank Teaching Kids to Be Materialists?

  The show has a new corporate backer, PNC Bank. Is Sesame Street teaching kids Wall Street values?

  by Liz Dwyer

• Education

  

  L.A. Schools Get Serious About Rehabbing Lunch Menus, But Will the New Food Help Kids Learn?

  The debate about cafeteria food shouldn't just focus on health. It also affects whether teachers can do their jobs effectively.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Culture

  

  Laughter Is the Best Medicine: Comic Books to Help Joplin Kids Be Kids

  A new comic book intends to help Joplin youth cope with life in a destroyed city by making them smile.

  by Zak Stone

• Culture

  

  Kids of Color Consume a Lot More Media Than White Kids

  A new study finds there's a huge difference in how much white and nonwhite children consume media.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• Education

  

  Is the Charter School Boom Really Good for Kids?

  The number of students enrolled in charter schools is higher than ever, but they're not an educational promised land.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Technology

  @GOOD and @WhiteHouse Ask: What Healthy Kid App Would You Design?

  by GOOD

• Education

  What Was the Best Field Trip You Ever Went on As a Kid?

  by Hillary Newman

• News

  Should Schools Teach Kids About Current Political Debates?

  by GOOD

• Education

  

  The White House and GOOD Ask: What Healthy Kid App Would You Design?

  Following  yesterday's shout-out, the White House and GOOD are officially joining forces to ask: What kind of healthy kid app would you like to...

  by Amanda M. Fairbanks

• Education

  What Was the Best Field Trip You Ever Went on as a Kid? Answers

  by Hillary Newman

• Culture

  

  Rapper Kendrick Lamar Is a "Good Kid In a Mad City"

  A 23-year-old rapper from Compton, California is hoping to make the city better through his angry, yet poetic words.

  by Lu Parker

• Education

  Should Parents Pay For Their Kid's College Education? The Community Answers

  by Hillary Newman

• Environment

  

  Good Global Warming News for People Who Love Bad News

  Good news: Global warming means fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic. Bad news: that likely means more offshore drilling.

  by Ben Jervey

• Environment

  

  The Good News About the Very Bad News (About Climate Change)

  These days, I see how optimistic and positive disaster and apocalypse movies were. Remember how, when those giant asteroids or alien space ships...

  by Grist

• News

  

  Leaving Your Kids to Play in a Vacant Lot Is Good Parenting?

  The benefits of a feral, rough edge on urban childhood, particularly with the growing chatter around the rise of "Chinese parenting" and "tiger moms."

  by Zachary Slobig

• Culture

  

  Why The Gap Year Isn’t Only For Rich Kids

  You don't have to be a privileged hippie to save a few months of salary from a shitty job and stretch it out in a foreign country.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• Lifestyle

  

  New Vaccine Is Good News for Nicaragua

  A vaccination campaign started in Nicaragua will save countless children's lives and could be a lesson to other countries.

  by Ann Marie Gardner