It revolves around a small centre where new mothers bring their children for pre-school education and information about nutrition and health.

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As an example of a school already using technology to connect with parents, the minister pointed to Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham, where "parents have secure, online access to up-to-the-minute information about many aspects of their children's life in school".

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Other facilities include a small children's library, exhibition spaces, lecture halls, a school for information sciences and a planetarium, this last being a separate, spherical structure poised at one end of the vast outside plaza like an orbiting satellite.

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The retired academic has argued that there should be a set body of information - the core knowledge - that should be known by children in each school year.

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Teachers are one of the important influences in keeping children at school and supporting students to develop critical thinking skills, to work cooperatively, process information and make informed choices about their lives and their futures is part of the role of a teacher.

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The National Association of School Psychologists, which has 22, 000 members, has provided information about ways to help children begin recovering from "this senseless act of violence".

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