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• Gun Houston kindergartner had was family friend's (AP)
• Poll: Youth without degrees at end of job line (AP)
• More kids adding Chinese to their ABCs (Reuters)
• How the poll was conducted (AP)

Gun Houston kindergartner had was family friend's (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:51 PM PDT AP - A loaded handgun that a kindergartner earlier this week took to his elementary school and accidentally fired, injuring himself and two other students, belonged to a friend of the boy's family, police said Thursday.

Poll: Youth without degrees at end of job line (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:18 PM PDT AP - The nation's economic upheaval has been especially hard on young people trying to start their working lives with a high school education or less. Only about a third are working full-time, compared with two-thirds of recent college grads, according to an Associated Press-Viacom poll.

More kids adding Chinese to their ABCs (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 07:54 AM PDT Reuters - In Mandarin immersion teacher Kennis Wong's kindergarten class, her young pupils are making paper masks glued to sticks that they twirl between their palms, showing a different face on each side.

How the poll was conducted (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:03 AM PDT AP - The Associated Press-Viacom Survey of Youth on Education by Stanford University was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Feb. 18 to March 6. It was based on landline and cellular telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,104 adults ages 18 to 24. Interviews were conducted with 603 respondents on landline and 501 on cellular phones.

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