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06 December, 2012

The research into parents' influence over children's learning has found parents possibly even more so than teachers are key to success.

Mums and dads don't need to understand calculus to get the best from their child. Taking an active interest and facilitating a love of learning is what kids need most. The improved results included higher grades, making advanced classes, lower dropout rates and greater likelihood of tertiary study. Schools with strong family involvement were four times more likely to improve student reading and 10 times more likely to improve maths results. Volunteering at school had little impact, and simply demanding high achievement can instead damage a child's self-esteem and their marks. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/involved-parents-key-to-learning-success/story-e6frea83-1226530751415

Facebook has opened the polls for its 1 billion users to vote on a variety of changes to the social network's policies, including a proposal to scrap the user voting system that Facebook introduced in 2009

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/facebook-users-privacy-goes-to-a-vote-20121205-2auhx.html