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Authored by college classmate, Robert Cone: "The Candy Bandit Strikes Again! is based on a real-life event that happened to the author when he was a boy. He was trick or treating on West Prospect Street in his hometown of Kewanee, Illinois with his older brothers. He had collected quite a bag full of candy, when suddenly he was jumped by an older boy. The older boy was hiding behind a tall bush and tried to snatch his candy bag. The author put up a good fight (just like the little girl in this story does) and was determined to have the trick or treat bag rip in two, when suddenly the candy bandit decided to let go of the bag. The author then went on his way as if nothing had happened and stopped to trick or treat at the very next house. Ironically, the house where the incident occurred is the very same house the author (as an adult) lived in for a short while with his mother, who has since moved to Hollis Street. The bush in question is still there, but it has been cropped to nearly half of its original size and the neighbors have since put up a fence."

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COPPA does not stop Facebook from allowing users under age 13 to join the site. COPPA does not stop any website from allowing users under age 13 to join. What COPPA does require is stricter privacy measures from websites aimed at those under 13 and at websites that know they are collecting personal information from those under 13.

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"Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development. Our mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media. Founded in 1979, Child Trends helps keep the nation focused on children and their needs by identifying emerging issues; evaluating important programs and policies; and providing data-driven, evidence-based guidance on policy and practice."

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MIT’s Deb Roy wants to understand how children learn language. Until now, scientists lacked the technology to implement the intense observation, data gathering, and analysis they need to properly investigate this question. With help from his research team at the MIT Media Lab, computing tools from Apple, and offering himself and his family as test subjects, Roy is developing that technology.

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The MIT Media Lab's Human Speechome Project has collected more than 80,000 hours of video and 120,000 hours of audio recordings documenting the first two years of a child's life. The result is a massive database of parent-child interactions, illustrated in this graphic. Click on any word below to see when the child learned it and how often the child and his parents used it.

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"Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of helping children around the world to read and learn. Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child's intellectual, personal and cultural growth, for nearly 90 years Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them."

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"Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of helping children around the world to read and learn. Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child's intellectual, personal and cultural growth, for nearly 90 years Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them."

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"The Internet has become a great source of information about a great many children's writers and illustrators. The websites listed here include authors' personal websites and websites maintained by fans, scholars, and readers. If you don't find an author here, you might want to try some other Internet sources of information about authors and books. Bear in mind though that if you can't find anything about the author online, you may still be able to find something in a library. "

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"This excerpt is taken from the chapter on the children's shows Sesame Street and Blues Clues. As I explain in Chapter Three, both of those shows, started epidemics of learning among pre-schoolers by creating "sticky" programming--programming engineered in such a way that children were able to remember and understand what they saw on the screen. This particular passage is about a machine called the Distracter, which was developed in the Sesame Street pioneer Edward Palmer to test whether pre-schoolers were paying attention to what they were seeing."

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"The Youth Internet Safety Survey was a series of two surveys conducted in the United States in 1999 and 2004. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) provided funding to Dr. David Finkelhor, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, to conduct a research survey in 1999 on Internet victimization of youth. His research was cited by the United States Department of Justice as "the best profile of this problem to date". Crimes Against Children Research Center staff interviewed a nationally representative sample youth, aged 10 to 17, who used the Internet regularly. There were 1501 subjects in the first survey in 1999, and 1500 in the second survey in 2005. Results from the surveys have been quoted in support of the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006, saying that "one in five children had received an unwanted online solicitation of a sexual nature". This is a reference to the 19% found in the first survey (see "First Survey" below). This is potentially misleading, since some have interpreted this as implying adults soliciting offline sexual contact from children. The 19% includes solicitation from minors to minors, and are not generally requests for physical/"offline" contact. The same survey found that none of the solicitations led to an actual sexual contact or assault."

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"The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is a non-profit organization that fights Internet child pornography[1] and works to help parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate material online.[2] Most of ASACP's funding comes from sponsoring companies in the online adult entertainment industry. There are hundreds of ASACP member companies, comprising thousands of websites. All ASACP member sites are required to comply with the group's code of ethics.[3] ASACP was founded in 1996 by Alec Helmy, founder and president of XBIZ, Publisher of Adult Industry News & Information as a hotline where webmasters and web surfers could report child pornography on the internet. ASACP’s online child pornography reporting hotline receives thousands of reports per month. ASACP investigates to determine the hosting, billing, IP address, ownership, and linkage of suspected child pornography sites. ASACP then forwards information to law enforcement, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and hotlines in other countries.[4] Sites can also be shut down by reporting them to web hosts and domain name registrars. In April 2007, the organization announced that their online reporting system had registered its 200,000th report from internet users.[5] In late 2006, ASACP launched the RTA ("Restricted to Adults") website label. RTA is a META tag that webmasters place in the page headers of adult websites to better enable parental filtering.[6]. On June 22, 2007 ASACP held a press conference to officially announce the Restricted to Adults - RTA Website Label. A video which includes highlights from the press conference as well as comments from Free Speech Advocate Greg Piccionelli and Wicked PicturesContract Performer, Writer, and Director Stormy Daniels is available on ASACP's YouTube Channel."

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"The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, often referred to as CRC or UNCRC, is an international convention setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children. Nations that ratify this international convention are bound to it by international law. Compliance is monitored by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child which is composed of members from countries around the world. Once a year, the Committee submits a report to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which also hears a statement from the CRC Chair, and the Assembly adopts a Resolution on the Rights of the Child.[4] Governments of countries that have ratified the Convention are required to report to, and appear before, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child periodically to be examined on their progress with regards to the advancement of the implementation of the Convention and the status of child rights in their country. Their reports and the committee's written views and concerns are available on the committee's website."

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