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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
It's a challenge to teach children who aren't in class — and new government numbers show more than 6.5 million students were absent for at least three weeks of the school year. The problem was particularly acute in Washington, D.C., where nearly a third of students were absent 15 days or more in a single school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of Education Department data. Washington state and Alaska weren't that far behind, with absentee rates hovering around a quarter of students. Florida had the lowest rate of absences: 4.5 percent of students in the state were chronically missing school.
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ASHA
Registration is now open for "Teens, Health and Technology: How Teens Search for Health Information in the Digital Age" which is scheduled on Tuesday, July 19 at 3 p.m. ET. Presented by Heather Montague, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Center on Media and Human Development, Northwestern University, this session will help school health professionals and educators articulate where teens seek health information (both digitally and with traditional sources); understand how digital health information impacts teen health behavior; and analyze how to reach teens, considering their preferred sources of health information. Continuing education credits for Continuing Nurse Education (CNE) and CHES/MCHES are available and free to ASHA members. Nonmembers can receive credit for $30. Click here for details.
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ASHA and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are offering special pricing to ASHA members on Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development. Until June 30, this curriculum will be specially priced at $275 for ASHA members, (retail price $323.95). Reaching Teens was reviewed by ASHA MCHES reviewers and has been approved for up to 41 entry level and 24 advanced level CECH for a total of 65 hours for CHES and MCHES. All eligible hours are available to ASHA members for free. Nonmembers can join ASHA to earn these hours free. Reaching Teens has also been approved for continuing education credit for doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, and counselors. Click here for details on how to obtain those credits through other sponsoring organizations. To obtain a copy of Reaching Teens for your personal or institutional use, contact Elyce Goldstein at aapsales@aap.org. More information about the curriculum and related continuing education can be viewed here.
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ASHA
The deadline for ASHA's call for nominations for six available seats on ASHA's Board of Directors (BOD) for the 2017-2018 term is June 16th. ASHA's BOD is a working board and all board members will serve on and/or chair committees. To be considered for nomination, applicants will need to submit resume/CV (3-page limit) and application form by June 16. Self-nomination is encouraged. To be eligible for election, nominees for the board must be members of ASHA in good standing as of the date the slate of nominees is approved (July 13). Click here for more details.
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Education World
In March of this year, Newark Public Schools made the decision to cut off water to more than 30 schools after detecting elevated levels of lead in the school's drinking water. Due to the recent issue in Flint, Michigan where elevated levels of lead in the city's drinking water lead to a crisis, the topic is a touchy issue and caused great alarm among Newark parents. District officials urged parents to remain calm and guaranteed the safety of children as the water was "still drinkable" but the words of reassurance provided little relief. Newark's plight highlights the long-standing issues of lead levels in school drinking water.
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MindShift
Third grade teacher Anita Parameswaran is no stranger to students who have experienced trauma. She has taught kids who have experienced the effects of abuse, neglect and divorce. She had one student experience a huge setback when he learned his father was arrested and sent to jail. The student then became violent, throwing things, and hurting other students, according to Parameswaran.
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The Associated Press via NewBostonPost
The troubles with kids these days ... are not as common as they used to be. U.S. teens are having a lot less sex, they are drinking and using drugs less often, and they aren't smoking as much, according a government survey of risky youth behaviors. "I think you can call this the cautious generation," said Bill Albert, spokesman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Among a decline in several risky behaviors, a sharp decline in sexual activity stood out to researchers.
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The Washington Post
Children living in poverty often are exposed to high levels of constant stress that can be debilitating, not only in terms of their physical health but also their ability to learn. So what are schools to do?
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Los Angeles Times
How do government agencies, private foundations, industry groups and professional societies squander hundreds of millions of dollars? By trying to fight America's obesity epidemic. Two new studies show that the best efforts of all these players — as well as schools, churches and individual healthcare providers — have largely failed to keep most Americans from getting fatter. One report finds that 35 percent of men and 40 percent of women were obese as of 2014, the most recent year for which data were available. The other says that 17 percent of children and teens were obese as well, including nearly 6 percent who were morbidly obese.
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The New York Times
There are supposed to be 27 children in Harold Boyd IV's second-grade classroom, but how many of them will be there on a given day is anyone's guess. Since school began in September, five new students have arrived and eight children have left. Two transferred out in November. One who started in January was gone in April. A boy showed up for a single day in March, and then never came back. Even now, in the twilight of the school year, new students are still arriving, one as recently as mid-May.
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LiveScience
The back-to-school time brings many new things: new clothes, new school supplies and new class schedules. And when it comes to getting your kids back on a school sleep schedule, you may also need a new routine. Last year's schedule may not work, because for kids and sleep, age matters. People's sleep requirements change as they get older, said Dr. Maria Melendres, a pediatric pulmonologist and sleep specialist at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, in Baltimore.
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Medical News Today
Latest research from a national sample of almost 10,000 U.S. adolescents found psychological trauma, especially abuse and domestic violence before age 11, can increase the likelihood of experimentation with drugs in adolescence, independent of a history of mental illness. Results of the study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health are published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Youth Today
Out-of-school suspensions dropped 20 percent nationally in recent years, but students of color and students with disabilities are still more likely to face harsh discipline than their peers, according to new federal data. The Department of Education said Tuesday the drop in suspensions from the 2011-2012 to 2013-2014 school years shows more schools are finding alternative ways to address nonviolent student behavior. But sharp disparities endure in the results of the 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection, which covers 50 million students in nearly every public school and school district in the country.
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