Connections - April 2006

Connections

Connections is your monthly recap of news and information involving kids in America. For weekly updates please subscribe to the CFK Weekly. To unsubscribe please see below.

Vol. 7, Is. 4  
April 5 , 2006

Book Chat

Essay Contest

Articles

Stepping Up to the Plate: Helping Kids with Severe Food Allergies
With a sharp increase in the number of kids with severe, even life-threatening, food allergies...

Even Start Under Fire
Even Start is a federally funded effort to improve literacy in very low income families...

Teens Help Teens Stay Safe Online
While parents worry about potential dangers to their children lurking in our web-surfing, IM-ing, text-messaging culture...

Leonardo’s Basement: Hands-On Haven for Kids
Imagine it. Plan it. Make it. That’s the basic formula for the popular after-school and summer classes offered by Leonardo’s Basement...



Online Chats
Talktime: DREAM Act
On March 22 Connect for Kids hosted an online chat with experts on education issues faced by immigrants.

Book chat today @ 1:00 ET

•  Carolyn Lehman on Surviving Abuse

Every other wealthy country is deliberately making budget and policy decisions that directly improve the conditions for low-wage families, but Congress may make budget choices this week that move in the opposite direction. Action Central has information and action alerts.