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Keeping kids at home from school when they get sick is one of the most important ways to stop the spread of swine flu. But plenty of parents can't skip a day of work to watch their children - and that worries the hero school nurse who first detected the virus in New York.

Boring lessons, geeky stereotypes and poor careers advice have turned many pupils off science. That has to change, says science minister Lord Drayson, as a new children's science education centre opens in LondonBlue Peter presenter Helen Skelton assumed her cousin Kate's job was boring. Kate was a scientist, after all. It was only since Kate died a fortnight ago, aged 27, that Skelton realised how wrong she had been.She discovered that Kate was in fact a globetrotting atmospheric chemist who measured the ozone layer around the world and had just finished a PhD.'I never really asked what she did,' Skelton says. 'I thought it was just some boring science thing. When I found out, I was blown away. Maybe if I'd known more about science, I would have gone into that too.'Skelton was speaking to scientists and teachers as she opened a new children's science education centre, Centre of the Cell, in Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, in east London, last week.So why do so ma

The White House will release today the text of a controversial back-to-school speech to students from President Obama that has angered some conservative parents and pundits. Many conservatives have expressed a fear that the address would be used to push a partisan political agenda. In the text of the speech, however, Obama avoids any mention of controversial political initiatives. Instead, he urges students to work hard and stay in school.

Late on Labor Day morning, UA quarterback Nick Foles walked past the school's sports media center at precisely the moment several of his teammates were being interviewed in a room illuminated by TV lights.

The prepared text of President Barack Obama's back-to-school address scheduled for Tuesdays, as released in advance by the White House:

In some districts with overwhelming deficits, extensive school layoffs have led to even more crowded classes and educators' teaching unfamiliar grade levels.

Controversy has surrounded the back-to-school speech that President Obama plans to deliver this week. As Don Teague reports, education, children, and politics is still a volatile mix.

The Tories hope a radical plan to put power in the hands of parents can do for a Cameron government what council house sales did for Margaret Thatcher - and bring hope to a generation of children. Paul Goodman assesses their chances of success

Under guidelines agreed by the US beverage industry with health groups, soft drinks manufacturers have agreed to reduce the measures they sell in schools and provide nutritious options by the start of this academic year