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Recasting the definition of a successful learner from one whose achievement is measured solely by academic tests, to one who is knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically engaged, prepared for economic self-sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond formal schooling.

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In schools and shopping malls and around the dining room table, the subject of teenage pregnancy and sex was suddenly and uncomfortably in the air as mothers and daughters and fathers, too, talked about — or tried not to talk about — the pregnancy of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears, who plays the perfect, well-liked and, it is understood, virginal teenage girl on "Zoey 101" on Nickelodeon.

High school girls here wondered aloud on Thursday why no one was talking about contraception. Parents across the country, on the other hand, commiserated over the Internet about how, thanks to Spears, they were facing a conversation with their 8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds about sex.

"Nowadays, nothing's safe, not even cartoons," Diana Madruga, who has an 11-year-old daughter, said as she wrapped up her shift as the manager of a Dunkin' Donuts here in the Boston suburbs.

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Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy poses parental dilemma

HIGH TEEN PREGNANCY RATE

The United States already has the highest teen pregnancy rate among the most developed nations and a national report in December showed the birth rate for teens rising in 2006 for the first time since 1991. The reasons are unclear.

Critics of the Bush government's emphasis on abstinence-only programs for teens seized on Jamie Lynn's pregnancy as another sign that the policy was not working.

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Pregnancy Raises Legal Questions Watch CNN's Sunny Hostin on what the law says »

Spears, the star of Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101," told OK! Magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her 18-year-old boyfriend.

There has been no public talk of criminal prosecution in the case. Consensual sex between the two may well have been legal, depending on where and when it took place.

But critics of the nation's statutory rape laws say that laws that are ignored in some cases can be used to put other teens in prison and land them on sex-offender registries.