While academics are a focus, the effort extends far beyond academics to include healthy eating, physical activity, Menominee language and culture, and on-site health care services.

WHITEHOUSE: Providing Services for Success

Its website is written in Spanish and Chapateka (a combination of the Wayuu language and Spanish) and claims activity in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Latin America's radical grassroots

Whether they are texting, tweeting or e-mailing, the potentially negative effects that this activity may have on language development, social interaction and emotional bonding of their children have been raised by social psychologists in the past decade.

FORBES: Texting While Parenting: What Effect Can It Have On Your Children?

Mr Obama said Israel had discussed important steps to "restrain" settlement activity, in what some observers noted to be a change in language from his previous calls for Israel to "halt" or "freeze" all building work.

BBC: Obama calls for Mid-East urgency

The language was changed to focus on organizations that showed indications of being involved in significant amounts of campaign activity.

WSJ: Director of IRS Unit Refuses to Answer Questions

Surely, the plaintiffs argue, the distinction between activity and non-activity can at least minimally restrict what Congress can do while preserving some vestige of the plain language and original intent of the Constitution?

FORBES: Supreme Court Reviews ObamaCare: Will Inactions Speak Louder Than Words?