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Cribs | Living/Learning: Second Home for First-Gens
By DANA JENNINGS
The New York Times
Despite their intelligence and optimism, many first-generation students will arrive at college only to be gone in an academic eye blink. The University of Cincinnati offers a dorm where they can find a new family, and future. Read more
Dr. Ken Shore Discusses the School Phobic Student
Education Week 2005
A student who frequently is absent from school demands the teacher's attention. It might be true that the student genuinely is sick; it also might be true that he is absent for reasons other than illness. Frequent absences can reflect school-related anxiety -- and be the precursor to a more significant problem. Read more
ACT Scores Show Most Students Aren’t Ready for College
By Catherine Gewertz - Education Week
Fewer than one quarter of last school year’s graduating high school seniors who took the ACT scored at the “college-ready” level in all four subject areas, a finding that prompted the nation’s highest education official to renew his demand that schools do a far better job preparing students for college. Read More
Getting the Most Out of School Counselors
educationworld.com
While elementary-school guidance counselors still are not the norm, those that are assigned to schools can provide valuable support to students, teachers, parents, and principals. The key is to let them do their jobs. Read More
Teen bullying: Tormented boy’s short life ends in suicide
Death stuns suburb, raises awareness of link between bullying and depression
ChicagoTribune.com
The bullying seemed inescapable.
His family and friends say it followed Iain Steele from junior high to high school from hallways, where one tormentor shoved him into lockers, to cyberspace, where another posted a video on Facebook making fun of his taste for heavy metal music.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jul/01/local/chi-bullying-01-jul01
Bystanders Can Stop Bullying
Myhighplains.com
The Department of Justice found that 88 percent of teens have witnessed bullying. And experts say they have the power to stop it, if only they acted. "We will not solve the bullying problem until we educate the silent witness," says Stacey DeWitt, President of Connect with Kids. "The biggest issue for bullying is the majority of children who watch it happen and let it go on." Read More
