Impact of Parent's Military Service on Children: Implications for Education Professionals
Thursday, April 26 from 2-3 p.m. ET
Presented by Kathy Broniarczyk, M.Ed. Senior Director for Outreach and Operations for the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University
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source: ASHA
A sharp spike in vaping and the use of e-cigarettes by students has grabbed the attention of the US Food and Drug Administration. The rapid spread of the fad was flagged in a 2016 report from the U.S. surgeon general. It cited a 900 percent increase in e-cigarette use by...
source: CNN
Digital health technology isn't just for grown-ups. New tools can help connect children with the private and personalized resources they need to better understand their mental health and keep it in check. For one school district,...
source: EdTech Magazine
Although most concussions in pediatric patients older than 6 years of age were sports related, investigators found about one-third of concussions were sustained through non-sport activities. "While concussions in sports are common...
source: Healio
Last fall, a national problem arrived in Superintendent Richard Scaletta's corner of rural northwestern Pennsylvania. Principals in the General McLane School District began reporting unprecedented levels of misbehavior: students in frequent and severe distress, sometimes...
source: District Administration Magazine
A new blueprint for fighting opioid addiction from Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., focuses in part on preventing addiction in young people and helping children recover from opioid-related trauma. ...
source: Education Week
Every public school student in Flint, Michigan, will be eligible for disability screening in the wake of the city's water crisis, which beginning in 2014 is believed to have exposed thousands of school-aged children to potentially harmful...
source: U.S. News & World Report
A new study indicates that delaying school start times results in students getting more sleep, and feeling better, even within societies where trading sleep for academic success is common.
source: Oxford University Press USA via Science Daily
While school lunches in the U.K. are subject to food standards, the contents of packed lunches are not as closely scrutinized, and studies have raised concern regarding the nutritional quality of packed lunches. A new study found that children, not their parents, are often...
source: Elsevier via Science Daily
Regardless of whether students like to rise with the dawn or stay up after midnight, new research suggests that when their class schedules fall out of sync with their biological clocks, their grades can suffer. A study in the journal...
source: Education Week
Student bullying on the internet could be headed for a showdown with a 50-year-old U.S. Supreme Court case that granted expansive First Amendment rights to kids in public school. When it does, one expert is ready to make the case for challenging...
source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via Science Daily
Dallas ISD's morning drop-in centers for homeless high school students provide necessities such as take-home food, hygiene products and a place to wash clothes. The program's managers say they also strive to offer an equally important, if less tangible, resource: trust....
source: District Administration Magazine
Health experts had hoped that moving from chewing tobacco and paper products to vaping systems to deliver...
source: By: Denise A. Valenti (commentary)
APHA's Center for School Health and Education has released new case studies! The case studies show how school-based health centers across the country are developing innovative strategies and partnerships to provide care for the young people they serve: using telehealth to...
source: APHA
The use of Twitter to share news and to congratulate individuals or teams, or to remind of meetings or events has become a part of many educational leaders' work of the day. Many, if not most students and parents are "on" Twitter. It has become a favored way to communicate...
source: Education Week
