News tagged with 12th grade
Bullying victims often suffer academically, particularly high achieving blacks and Latinos
Victims of bullying often suffer academically, and this is particularly true for high achieving black and Latino students, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2011 |
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California high school exit exam gets a failing grade in Stanford study
Graduation rates for low-achieving minority students and girls have fallen nearly 20 percentage points since California implemented a law requiring high school students to pass exit exams in order to graduate, according to ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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School absenteeism, mental health problems linked
School absenteeism is a significant problem, and students who are frequently absent from school more often have symptoms of psychiatric disorders. A new longitudinal study of more than 17,000 youths has found that frequently ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Survey: Teen pot use rises, alcohol use declines
(AP) -- More teens are turning to pot and see it as less of a risk at the same time alcohol use among the same age group has dipped to historic lows, according to an annual national survey of drug use released Wednesday.
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Violence more common among kids of combat veterans
(AP) -- A new study suggests that when parents are deployed in the military, their children are more than twice as likely to carry a weapon, join a gang or be involved in fights.
Oct 31, 2011 |
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NASA invites students to name moon-bound spacecraft
NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Indiana: Upward trend in marijuana use, smokeless tobacco
Alcohol use by Indiana sixth- through 12th-graders has declined, but findings from the 21st Annual Survey of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use also revealed a continuing increase in marijuana and smokeless ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Back-to-school can mean vaccines for tweens, teens
(AP) -- Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot?
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Effects of tobacco use among rural African American young adult males
Tobacco related disease is a primary source of mortality for African American men. Recent studies suggest that "alternative" tobacco products may have supplanted cigarettes as the most common products used by young African ...
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Adolescent boys among those most affected by Washington state parental military deployment
In 2007, nearly two million children in the United States had at least one parent serving in the military. Military families and children, in particular, suffer from mental health problems related to long deployments.
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Report offers new framework to guide K-12 science education, calls for shift in the way science is taught in US
A report released today by the National Research Council presents a new framework for K-12 science education that identifies the key scientific ideas and practices all students should learn by the end of high school. The ...
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Drug prescriptions confuse many users
When pharmacies, doctors' offices and homes were destroyed by the tornado in Joplin, Mo., so were the medication records of many patients. Pharmacists who helped out report that many people could not recall the names of their ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 27, 2011 |
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