“I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution.” ChildrenMadeGovernmentSchoolOpportunityStepsInvolvedCharityCampaignsLocalsRangeAgencyContributionAddressesDigitalDividesDelightedOrganisationSuppliersGovernment AgenciesDigital DivideIct Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.” ChildrenUseTodayActionUsedQualityEffectsProtectAdversityProtectionAgencySchedulesExposureOur ActionsDeadlineAdversePesticidesProtecting ChildrenAdverse Effects Author:Carol Browner
“I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases.” ThinkingChildrenWholeCasesTakenBuiltWelfareAgencyFollow Up Author:Kim Edwards
“Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.” PeopleWantChildrenJobsPoorEmbraceWelfareAgencyMediocreSecrecy Author:Richard Wexler
“Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It is a blessing and a burden. Using this gift of agency wisely is critical today because never in the world's history have God's children been so blessed or so blatantly confronted with so many choices.” ThinkingWorldChildrenTodayChoicesOpportunityResponsibilityBlessingConsequenceBlessedBurdenCriticalEndlessAgencyEndless Opportunities Author:Sharon G. Larsen
“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.” MeanChildrenArtBookKidsOrderFightingCoursesReadingLiteratureLanguageChallengesLevelsRoomsAttentionTroubleDisciplineOfficeStuckBackgroundsAgencyAcademicCopSupportiveFilesCivicsInterpersonalDelinquentsInterpersonal RelationshipLanguage Arts Book:Up the Down Staircase Source: Up the Down Staircase
“To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of Infinite Peace, that their lives are fairly bubbling over with joy.” PeopleKnowsChildrenJoySpiritFatherConsciousRelationInfiniteSimplicityInner PeaceOnenessRealizationAgencyInfinite LifeTrue Relation Book:In Tune with the Infinite Source: In Tune with the Infinite