Fewer High School Students Smoking Cigarettes And Marijuana
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Fewer high school students were smoking cigarettes and marijuana in 2007 than in 2001, with one in four smoking pot and one in five puffing on cigarettes, a youth survey released Wednesday shows.
Teens’ use of tobacco in their lifetime fell to 46 percent from 62 percent and marijuana use dropped to 41 percent, down from [...]
Alternative Education To Get Boost
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Baltimore school administrators unveiled a plan yesterday to reduce violence and the dropout rate by overhauling alternative education, nearly doubling the number of alternative school slots by August and creating morning and evening programs for working students.
The plan calls for the creation of two new alternative schools and the redesign of existing alternative schools, where [...]
Tutors are helping themselves too
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“I like reading with little kids. I can influence them, and I can get better at reading,” she said.
Taylor is part of a program that pairs more than 1,000 Chicago Public Schools 9th graders from six high schools with about the same number of 1st graders. As the 9th graders teach the young pupils how [...]
State Farm Business Camp coming this summer
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State Farm and the Business Education Partnership and Destination Rutherford of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce announce the seventh year of the State Farm Summer Business Camp for middle school students.
This two-week day camp will be held July 7-18 and will be hosted at local organizations and businesses. During the camp, students learn business [...]
State Farm Business Camp coming this summer
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State Farm and the Business Education Partnership and Destination Rutherford of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce announce the seventh year of the State Farm Summer Business Camp for middle school students.
This two-week day camp will be held July 7-18 and will be hosted at local organizations and businesses. During the camp, students learn business [...]
Parents students protest Chicago school closings
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The plan will lead to the shuttering of Roque de Duprey Elementary School, Gladstone Elementary School and the eventual phase-outs of the De La Cruz and Andersen schools.
“I’m pretty much disgusted with the way they went … they were going to go through with it no matter what,” said Mildred Rodriguez, who [...]
