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• n  a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

• The World Food Program estimates that if you spend just over $2 billion, you can feed every schoolchild going hungry around the world.
• As every American schoolchild knows, the highest mountain in North America is Alaska's Mount McKinley (elevation: 20,320 ft.
• The fact that double helix and Watson and Crick are familiar to just about every schoolchild, though, makes it clear that DNA was every bit as important as Crick thought.

• school-age child
• pupil

News & Articles

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• July 4 trivia: Who sewed the star-spangled banner that inspired the song?
  Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner.” That’s something every US schoolchild learns. But who made the star-spangled banner itself? No, not the song – the flag that inspired lawyer and amateur poet Key to write what became the US national anthem.
  July 4, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Drew Barrymore in Washington Post
  I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry,Barrymore said in a statement Wednesday. "Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing, but it works miracles. I've...
• Marc Leepson in Dallas Morning News
  The most reproduced photo of the 20th century is the Marines planting the flag on Iwo Jima,Mr. Leepson said. "The story of Betsy Ross is one every schoolchild knows. It's something that permeates deeply into who we are as a people."
• Bill Donohue in New York Post (registration)
  Donohue said, "It is unconscionable that in this day and age, Superintendent Rearick would choose to honor a thief. As every schoolchild knows, Peter Rabbit stole from Mister McGregor's garden. To now hold him up as a role model to impressionable...