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Through Kajeet's "walleting" system, a parent deposits money into an account that allows kids to buy whatever they want from Kajeet--no less than nine SpongeBob ringtones ($2 each), celebrity wallpaper ($1.50), family friendly games like Sudoku ($5), text messaging (5˘ each) and, yes, phone calls (10˘ a minute). If a kid's Kajeet allowance is $20 a month and he blows it all on Beyoncé wallpaper, he won't be able to text or phone anyone--except his parents and 911, which are never blocked. "It helps kids learn about budgeting and responsibility without locking families into long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling All Kids | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...class consisted of. It wouldn’t just say ‘English.’ It was what texts we used and how the grade was determined. She did all the classes, all the extracurriculars, and service I’d done.”A homeschooling parent who considers herself more of a “general contractor” than a teacher, Carla Jentoft educated her three children in the family’s Circle Pines, Minn., home. Having studied abroad during college, this high school valedictorian and her husband wanted to provide their children with...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In a class of their own | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...with us and the earnestness with which she listened to what we had to say,” he said. Faust, whose daughter, Jessica M. Rosenberg, graduated from the College in 2004, said she was looking to add to the impressions of undergraduate education she has gathered as a parent.“One of the things I need to do is take the snapshots that have been my experience of undergraduate life and develop that into a more systematic understanding of undergraduate issues,” she said.The president-elect left yesterday’s meeting with a bound...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust Meets With Council | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...without much-needed mental-health care "because of the limited availability of such care and the barriers to accessing care." The report, issued by the association's Presidential Task Force on Military Deployment Services for Youth, Families and Service Members, said 700,000 children have at least one military parent now deployed overseas - and that more than 2,700 have lost a parent in Afghanistan or Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Mental Health Under Stress | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...Then again, Truong is hardly a disinterested observer. Not only did he rank 20th on the VNExpress list (his stock is worth $35 million), but FPT is the parent company of the news site that published the list. And who is Vietnam's richest person, according to VNExpress? Truong's cousin, FPT Corp. CEO Truong Gia Binh, pictured, whose shares in the tech conglomerate are worth nearly $200 million. Call it the Vietnamese Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spoils of Capitalism | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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