How can we provide our kids with better educations in school, in sports, and in life?

FORBES: The Ridiculous Choice This 8-Year-Old Has to Make

This years theme was Chemistry: our life, our future and the contest was for middle school students throughout all of Brazil.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

Our goal is to make every student able to live their daily school life in a stable condition and sound environment.

UNESCO: Building the Wealth of Nations

Though we aren't likely to return to an agricultural life or to stop feeding our children well and sending them to school, the very flexibility of the developing brain points to solutions.

WSJ: What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

As I told the young women at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in London during our recent trip, I told them there was nothing in my life that would suggest that I would become First Lady.

WHITEHOUSE: THE WHITE HOUSE

Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life.

WHITEHOUSE: Signing the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act

Our research finds that people who are engaged with their communities tend to fare much better in school, jobs and life.

CNN: Citizenship isn't about passing a civics test

"No amount of money can compensate for the school district's deliberate failure to provide an appropriate education at a crucial point in our son's life, " she says.

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