More than 500 children in Thailand are expected to receive the machines in October and November for quality testing and debugging.
The One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab and now is a separate nonprofit organization, hopes to deploy 5 million to 7 million machines in Thailand, Nigeria, […]

The Kansas electorate has voted to get rid of two of its anti-evolution school board reps in the State’s primary elections. The result has been welcomed by pro-evolution board members and science advocacy groups.
Although it is just a primary, it means the two ousted candidates will not stand for re-election come the General Elections. Both […]

UNICEF officials, parents, and local and military leaders celebrated the demobilization of 250 youngsters from armed forces and groups in Southern Sudan last week. The release was the largest of its kind since a peace accord ended two decades of civil war in January 2005, and committed the two sides to child demobilization throughout the […]

The children have trekked through mud and overgrown grass to sit under a guava tree and be taught by a radio.
A cool breeze lifts their spirits as a brilliant blue, solar-powered radio perched on a tree branch crackles with basic lessons in arithmetic or biology, tutoring Zambia’s future doctors, accountants, lawyers or business leaders.
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Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced it will drive support for 2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair, executive director and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, in his efforts to use design to improve living standards around the world. This opportunity, and Sun’s offer to help make it a reality, was part of a wish to change […]

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the “intelligent design” explanation for the origin of life cannot be taught in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district.
The Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology curriculum must include “intelligent design,” the notion that life on Earth was produced by an […]

A Pennsylvania student is off the hook after the American Civil Liberties Union defended his right to wear a political T-shirt to school.
Chris Schiano’s T-shirt said “International Terrorist” and had a picture of President Bush.
CBS.
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been distributing educational supplies to some 2,000 Liberian public schools, benefiting nearly half a million students in the post-election West African country where civil conflict raged for 14 years.
Full Story: UN News Centre
(via Great News Network).
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Here’s some great Thanksgiving news from our neighbors to the north:

Canada has unveiled a C$5bn (US $4.3bn; £2.4bn) programme to fight poverty in native communities, at the end of an unprecedented two-day summit.
Prime Minister Paul Martin said gaps in wealth, health and education between aboriginal and other Canadians were “not acceptable in the 21st […]

The nation’s 9-year-olds last year posted their best scores in the building-block subjects of reading and math in more than three decades (My Way ).
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