safety, scams, schools: accountability, alternative, charter, choice, curriculum, desegregation, fund raising, prayer, parental involvement, reform, school-to-work, spending, sports, teacher's perspective, technology, vouchers, trends, self-esteem, sex education, substance abuse, suicide, summer camp

 

SAFETY

09.21.97 - Keeping your family safe on the Information Superhighway

09.21.97 - New parental software tracks kids on Internet without blocking sites

08.17.97 - When mothers go to work, can they trust the caregiver?

05.04.97 - LYCOS hosts Web site for special child-protection program

05.04.97 - Class action expands against Metromail and Donnelley over privacy violations

03.09.97 - Family of raped child files suit against janitorial company

SCAMS

05.04.97 - Class action expands against Metromail and Donnelley over privacy violations

03.30.97 - Baby Food Scam Aims to Catch People Off-Guard

SCHOOLS
accountability

09.21.97 - Panel discusses ways to increase academic excellence among blacks

05.11.97 - What happened to standards?

04.27.97 - General Assembly fast-tracks school takeover bill

03.30.97 - CBIA calls for greater accountability in public education

03.09.97 - Florida Bill Would Ease Removal of Bad Teachers, Boost Parents' Power

03.09.97 - New Jersey's New Education Funding Law Means Less Control for Districts

03.02.97 - Hartford High School faces loss of accreditation school board members stunned

SCHOOLS
alternative

03.16.97 - New Florida private school promises a computer at every desk

03.16.97 - Nonprofit board to oversee for-profit school sites in Duluth

03.02.97 - Duluth Teachers Give Edison School Mixed Reviews

SCHOOLS
charter

05.18.97 - School choice removed, charter schools boosted in Appropriations bill

05.18.97 - State senators approve charter schools bill

03.16.97 - Charter Schools Offer Best of Public and Private Schools

SCHOOLS
choice

05.18.97 - School choice removed, charter schools boosted in Appropriations bill

03.23.97 - Lincoln Park, NJ Board Votes for Children, Not Jobs

SCHOOLS
curriculum

09.21.97 - Panel discusses ways to increase academic excellence among blacks

09.21.97 - Atherton students learn the basics

09.14.97 - What is computer literacy and how should we teach it?

08.17.97 - CBIA helps bring realworld uses to new math curriculum

05.18.97 - In Florida, High School Students Learn from Stockmarket Competition

05.11.97 - What happened to standards?

04.27.97 - Critics say new, new math is too dumbed-down

02.23.97 - We need to address gender biased curriculum

02.16.97 - School too easy, teenagers say study finds high school students also put off by unruly classmates

02.16.97 - Citizens ask legislature for school curriculum on Irish potato famine

SCHOOLS
desegregation

03.30.97 - California's "education gap" puts state in economic jeopardy

12.02.96 - Chris Powell on Sheff v. O'Neill - Sheff plaintiff's integration plan

11.14.96 - Chris Powell on Sheff v. O'Neill - the cost of integration

08.24.96 - John Breen, journalism teacher at the University of Connecticut on Sheff v. O'Neill

07.25.96 - Chris Powell on Sheff v. O'Neill - going nowhere fast

07.23.96 - Chris Powell on Sheff v. O'Neill - Chief Justice Ellen A. Peters

SCHOOLS
fund raising

09.14.97 - North Carolina PTA Council Pushes to Get Financial Controls in Place

08.17.97 - Earn Cash For Your School!

SCHOOLS
prayer

05.25.97 - Congressman pushes religion amendment on Capitol Hill

SCHOOLS
parent involvement

09.14.97 - Parents, you are teachers, too

08.17.97 - Help Lead the America Goes Back to School Effort

03.30.97 - Parents Push for Report Cards That Don't Require a User's Manual

SCHOOLS
reform

09.14.97 - Smart Solutions For US School Overcrowding

08.17.97 - Urban League to lead national school improvement effort

05.11.97 - A lesson in improving schools

05.11.97 - New standards, hard work turn Texas problem school around

05.18.97 - Arthur Andersen urges going beyond educational improvement; calls for total transformation of education system

05.18.97 - Reducing class size puts schools in a squeeze

05.18.97 - Lawmakers submit education reform bill to challenge Nevada governor's plan

04.27.97 - General Assembly fast-tracks school takeover bill

04.20.97 - Hartford school takeover law offers both hope and disgrace

03.23.97 - John Berthoud, Vice President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution - Investor's Business Daily - Guest Editorial

03.21.97 - Tinkering with Hartford's schools won't work State should run them directly, do its best

03.02.97 - Connecticut State Department of Education calls for same changes in Hartford

02.23.97 - IBM expands commitment to reinventing educationschools that Education Alternatives was fired for

02.16.97 - Multi-age classroom offers variety of challenges for different ages

SCHOOLS
school-to-work

04.20.97 - Utah students eager to earn as they learn

04.20.97 - Craft Center creates partnership with Henry Abbott Regional Technical School

04.06.97 - American technology companies push for higher caliber graduates in workforce

03.30.97 - California's "education gap" puts state in economic jeopardy

03.23.97 - Leading education paper announces new corporate partnership program

03.16.97 - Colorado business leaders prepare students for real-life experiences

03.02.97 - Nashville Program Gives Teens Experience in Business World

02.23.97 - Schools look to business to prepare kids for work

02.16.97 - Comprehensive School-to-Careers web guide launches `www.school-to-careers.com`

SCHOOLS
spending

SCHOOLS
sports

09.14.97 - Internet health club to launch free youth fitness program for U.S. high school varsity athletes

SCHOOLS
teacher's perspective

05.25.97 - `It's hard to go' -- Iowa teachers wrap up week in New York schools

03.09.97 - Pennsylvania Teachers See Many Changes in Education System

02.23.97 - Given the Circumstances: Teachers Talk About Public Education Today

SCHOOLS
technology

09.14.97 - Kids Solve Everyday Problems With Creative Inventions

04.27.97 - Clinton bankrolls NetDay $11.8 million goes to wiring classrooms

04.27.97 - NetSchools launches revolutionary technology solution for K-12 that defines the new 21st century classroom; innovative "kid-proof" laptop at heart of solution

04.27.97 - ITAA exec calls for greater IT emphasis in vocational education bill

03.27.97 - Chris Powell looks at the property tax and its impact on school budgets

03.16.97 - Business & Education Leaders Advance Education Technology Challenge

03.16.97 - New Florida private school promises a computer at every desk

02.23.97 - IBM expands commitment to reinventing education

SCHOOLS
vouchers

09.21.97 - Survey: Most parents happy with school vouchers

SCHOOLS
trends

05.18.97 - Note-taking service alarms some professors

SELF ESTEEM

03.16.97 - John Rosemond explains the difference between self-esteem and self-respect

09.01.96 - John Rosemond says promoting self-esteem promotes the problems self-esteem is supposed to cure

SEX EDUCATION

06.08.97 - Promote prevention, not an AIDS vaccine

05.04.97 - 12 honored for fighting teen-age pregnancy

04.27.97 - sex education program at Brookfield High School

03.23.97 - UCSF Launches Website "HIV InSite," A Comprehensive Online Gateway to AIDS Knowledge

03.16.97 - Television series alerts parents to importance of talking with their teens about sex

03.09.97 - U.S. pays states cutting unwed-mom births

03.02.97 - State of California to spend millions on campaign to curb teen and unwed pregnancies

SMOKING
(see substance abuse)

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

09.21.97 - Dare to make waves: Not everyone pleased with anti-drug program results

09.21.97 - Angry parents seek to remove candy resembling drugs

06.08.97 - Views on drug rehabilitation

05.25.97 - Students see MADD effects of poor choices

05.25.97 - Living with the highs and lows of heroin

05.25.97 - Notre Dame student goes from drug dealer to graduate

05.18.97 - Teen drug and alcohol abuse may follow depression

04.27.97 - Teen smoking rate continues up

04.27.97 - Hard-core addicts turn lives around; stay `clean and sober'

04.20.97 - Chris Powell on the drugs - the law enforcement and public health views

04.20.97 - Bill allowing teatment over imprisonment for drug offenders heads to Senate

04.20.97 - Why Adolescents Should Not Use Alcohol At All!

04.20.97 - Because we all care - Stop underage drinking

04.20.97 - Alcohol: Drug of choice for teenagers

04.20.97 - A parents guide to alcohol and teens

04.20.97 - Teens driven to help peers get safe ride home

04.20.97 - Project Graduation

04.20.97 - Campaign against drunk driving targets adults

04.20.97 - Underage drinking: Good parenting may be best way to solve the problem

04.13.97 - Keeping Youth From Abusing Alcohol - The French paradox

04.13.97 - Kids Drink, Use Drugs to Cope: Peer Pressure Actually Less of a Factor
in Teen Drinking Than Parents Think

04.06.97 - Teenagers and Drug Use: What You Should Know

04.02.97 - Trying news tactics against drugs in Connecticut wouldn't be 'surrender'

03.30.97 - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co statement onWall Street Journal report on FTC's consideration of Joe Camel

03.23.97 - Why Nation's Newest Drug Policy Won't Work

03.16.97 - New study reveals marijuana is number one drug of choice for teen addicts

03.16.97 - Congresswoman Nancy Johnson partners with The Century Council to educate teens about drinking and driving

03.09.97 - Alcohol and tobacco firms selling to youths via Internet, report warns

03.09.97 - Poll finds parents overestimate communication with kids on drugs

03.02.97 - State trade groups pledge to continue to prevent access to tobacco products

02.23.97 - Hospital tries to curb teen "reckless behavior"

02.23.97 - Small retailers call for common sense approach to youth smoking

02.16.97 - Parents reach out to help local teens

 

SUICIDE

03.23.97 - Boys' suicides part of national trend among younger teens

SUMMER CAMP

03.02.97 - Kiddie Camps: Are We Having Fun Yet?