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NPR
When Caitlin Cheney was living at a campground in Washington state with her mother and younger sister, she would do her homework by the light of the portable toilets, sitting on the concrete. She maintained nearly straight A's even though she had to hitchhike to school, making it there an average of three days a week. "I really liked doing homework," says Cheney, 22, who is now an undergraduate zoology student at Washington State University. "It kept my mind off reality a little bit." More than 1 million public school students in the United States have no room to call their own, no desk to do their homework, no bed to rely on at night. State data collection, required by federal law and aggregated by the National Center for Homeless Education, shows the number of homeless students has doubled in the past decade, to 1.3 million in 2013-2014.
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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
ASHA scholarship applications are being accepted through July 20. ASHA will award 2016 scholarships to ASHA members who are either full-time students pursuing a graduate or undergraduate program specializing in any school health profession; or who are school health professionals seeking one of the following PreK-12 education certifications: health teacher, school nurse, counselor, or social worker. Recipients will be notified by the third week in August. Scholarships will be awarded shortly thereafter.
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ASHA
ASHA developed the Future Leaders Academy (FLA) to identify and train individuals for future leadership roles in the organization. The FLA builds skills and familiarizes young professionals with the programs and activities of the Association. Becoming part of the FLA requires a 2-year commitment. Conference calls are held monthly and include lively discussions about leadership on the job and within ASHA. FLA members are invited to "sit-in" on monthly ASHA Board conference calls to learn more about the inner workings of ASHA and are invited to attend the in person Board meeting at the annual conference. To participate in the FLA, please complete the FLA Application Form and email it with your CV (3 pages max) to info@ashaweb.org by July 20.
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Today
A new study finds that nearly 30 percent of teenagers had a condition called tinnitus, a ringing or buzzing in the ears. "It's a growing problem and I think it's going to get worse," study coauthor, Larry Roberts, a senior researcher in the department of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University, said in a statement. "My personal view is that there is a major public health challenge coming down the road in terms of difficulties with hearing. The World Health Organization has warned that 1.1 billion young people are at risk of hearing loss because of portable digital music players and damaging levels of sound at entertainment venues, such as electronic dance music festivals, where sound levels can top 120 decibels for hours.
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The Christian Science Monitor
In schools across the country, teachers have long fretted about the challenges of reaching students who don't come to class. Education researchers echo those concerns, saying that missing 10 percent of the school year — just two days a month — is a strong predictor of the likelihood of dropping out of school. Recently, the Education Department provided the first comprehensive look at the issue through its 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection, an annual report that examines a variety of issues facing students in schools across the country, including school discipline.
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THE Journal
More than 90 percent of teachers and administrators think their schools need to address student behavior issues in order to promote student success, but only 56 percent say those issues are a top priority in their schools, according to a new report from YouGov and Kickboard. The report, "The State of Climate & Culture Initiatives in America's Schools," was prepared by YouGov on behalf of Kickboard, a web-based school culture platform. YouGov surveyed 2,500 teachers, school administrators and district administrators about school priorities, school climate and culture initiatives, and opportunities and challenges related to creating school environments that foster student success.
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USA Today
Trying conventional cigarettes is no longer a teen rite of passage, but trying e-cigarettes might be becoming one, a new government survey suggests. Nearly half of high school students surveyed in 2015 tried vaping, while only a third smoked a tobacco cigarette, according to the nationwide survey of 15,000 students released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Scholastic Administrator Magazine
Recent news reports about lead in water supplies in many U.S. cities raise serious concerns, especially about the well-being of young children. Lead exposure causes significantly greater harm to children than adults. Exposure can lead to developmental delays and health problems. Here are eight things school officials can do to help keep their students safe and communicate the dangers of lead poisoning to parents.
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PsychCentral
New research finds that when teens receive an insufficient amount of sleep they show a heightened variability in sadness, anger, energy and feelings of sleepiness. Investigators also discovered that a poor night sleep can set up a vicious cycle as nightly fluctuations in sleep among healthy teens predicted a worse mood the next day. Also, a poor mood on any given day predicted unusually bad sleep the next night. Researchers believe promoting healthy sleep among adolescents could potentially prevent development of more serious mental health problems for some teens.
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Society for Science & the Public
What's the harm in a little beer? That's usually how it starts. Teenagers often are tempted to try some alcohol. Many give in when they are just 12 to 16 years old. Although they know they should avoid alcohol, many don't. Some will soon end up drinking a lot — and often. This is called binge drinking. And when it begins at a young age, it can have lasting impacts. That's the conclusion of a new study in rats. Binge drinking refers to downing several drinks within a short period of time. And in the United States, binging is common among underage drinkers. Those who are 12 to 20 years old account for 11 percent of all alcohol that's drunk, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, in Atlanta, Ga.
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The Atlantic
The image of black and white children hand-in-hand is possibly the most well-known and most often quoted line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Over the years, black and white youngsters playing together has evolved from a civil-rights leader's vision of racial equality to a clothing retailer's marketing campaign, and in the process spawned a cultural meme — signaling everything from innocence and hope to a world free of interpersonal racism. Yet black and white childhood friendships, an inspiring notion, rarely happen organically. According to a new study of elementary- and middle-school students, teacher behaviors may shape how students select and maintain friends and affect the longevity of interracial friendships.
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