“Once someone has an impression of you, it’s hard to change that. So I’ve had lots of kids tell me that after the first week of school, they felt like nothing they could do changed the way the teacher looked at them.” – Nancy McGarrah, Ph.D., Psychologist In the halls of almost any school, on […]
“If you get your high school diploma, you’re going to be better off. If you get some college, you’re going to be better off. If you get a bachelors degree, you’re going to be better off.” – Martin Segura, Education Counselor For some students, earning a GED seemed like the next best thing to a […]
“There is a tremendous amount of medicines out there that are readily available in the bathrooms, in the cabinets at home as well as on the black market.” – Steven Jaffe, M.D., adolescent psychiatrist According to a recent report from the CDC, for the first time the abuse of painkillers and other medication is sending […]
“As children age, they naturally develop a delay in their onset of sleep, or their sleep phase. It’s part of natural maturation. And kids get to sleep around 10 o’clock or even 11 o’clock into the later teenage years.” – Jeffrey Durmer, M.D., explaining one reason why teenagers tend to stay up so late at […]
“There’s over a hundred classes. And almost all of them are more specific than you would normally get at a high school level.” – Steve Quesinberry, Virtual High School Teacher We know kids are spending a lot of time online, but according to a new report in Education Week, more of that time is spent […]
“Dr. Johnston: I’m glad you had your helmet on. Dane: Me, too.” – Dr. Carden Johnston, ER Pediatrician, and Dane, Age 11, after a bicycle accident shattered Dane’s helmet According to the latest research from the CDC, a large majority of kids rarely or never wear a bike helmet… known to reduce the risk of […]
“We don’t listen enough as parents, or teachers. And if we listen and understand what kids really thrive on, individual kids, then we can find a book or a magazine that will fit their interest.” – David Payne, former high school principal Data from the U.S. Census Bureau suggests some small changes in the way […]
“It’s very, very easy for students to become over-committed very quickly and to lose sight of why they’re in college.” – Sherrie Nist, Ph.D., Professor College students leave for campus packed with hopes and dreams. Yet, according to research from the American Enterprise Institute, nationally, just over half of entering students – 53 percent – […]
“This phenomenon is where you get rapid brain swelling and death; it’s 80 percent mortality. It’s thought to be caused by having a second head injury prior to recovery from the first.” – Dr. David Wright, M.D., emergency medicine, Emory University More than 3 million high school athletes will suffer from a sports-related injury this […]
March 2014 Beyond Hollywood: Heroin Headlines Report Teen Use Nationwide Last summer’s headline news was the heroin-related death of Glee star Cory Monteith, best known for playing television’s clean-cut high school football star Finn Hudson. Last month’s headline was Philip Seymour Hoffman, also known to teens for his role as head gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in […]
