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From:American Music Teacher (Vol. 55, Issue 2)Winners of the second annual Amadeus 20th Century Piano Competition have been announced. With more than $2,500 in prize monies awarded, the competition provided a weekend of outstanding performances. In the...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 22, Issue 2)WASHINGTON As a relative newcomer to the Saturday afternoons spent working on computers in a community center in Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood, Avery Hillmon has his work cut out for him. A participant in...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 320, Issue 7240) Peer-ReviewedStudents who use illegal drugs are more likely to carry weapons to school. This was the conclusion of a survey of 3,121 teenage students in Scotland. One-third of the boys and 9% of the girls said they had carried a...
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From:School Science and Mathematics (Vol. 108, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMathematics and science are important for success in school, but learning mathematics and science can be a difficult task to some students. Efforts to improve students' learning of school mathematics and science have...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 41, Issue 3)It should come as no surprise that while elementary achievement is the big focus under No Child Left Behind, student achievement in math and reading lags in the middle and high-school grades, according to a recent...
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From:Science Scope (Vol. 32, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedA major cause of injuries in middle and high school science laboratories can be summarized by one word--heat. Heated liquids, glassware, and hot plates are the most common source of student burns in the lab....
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From:Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (Vol. 20, Issue 1-2)The purpose of this study is to examine whether middle and secondary students' social identities impact exhibition of historical empathy through analysis of an under represented historical figure with the instructional...
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From:Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science (Vol. 34, Issue 1)The Colorado-Wyoming Junior Academy of Science is an organization of science-oriented Junior High and High School students from Colorado and Wyoming. Providing an opportunity for students to share their knowledge gained...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground The pathogenic and oncogenic roles of papillomavirus (HPV) infections have been documented and shown to occur in women as well as in men. While other countries have already extended their vaccination...
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From:Teacher Librarian (Vol. 33, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBenjamin Franklin www. pbs.org/benfranklin/ PBS presents this great introduction to the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin for middle school and high school students. The site includes an interactive...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 10)Read-alouds boost listening and reading comprehension skills and bring subjects to life in a way that textbooks cannot. While many educators already embrace reading across the curriculum, the following three...
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From:Journal of School Health (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFederally funded projects such as Monitoring the Future and PRIDE, as well as numerous state and local activities devote considerable resources to survey junior and senior high school students' drug use. (1) Monitoring...
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From:Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science (Vol. 32, Issue 1)The Colorado-Wyoming Junior Academy of Science is an organization of science-oriented Junior High and High School students from Colorado and Wyoming. Providing an opportunity for students to share their knowledge gained...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 12)Blogging may be the hottest new trend on the Internet, but some K-12 schools are restricting student access to these online diaries, both on campus and off. Last month, Pope John XXIII Regional High School, in...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 74, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe ocean and estuarine ecosystems of both the United States and Canada are under considerable stress from factors such as pollution runoff, overfishing, coastal development, and the introduction of nonnative species...
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From:Instructor (1990) (Vol. 120, Issue 6)1 Respect students' search for self. We want our adolescents to read well, to write well, to communicate, and to learn. But adolescents are unique in that they are emerging from childhood and asking the big...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 48, Issue 10)Since little research exists on how students use the Internet for schoolwork, the Pew Internet & American Life Project surveyed approximately 2,000 middle- and high-school students this past summer and learned what many...
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From:Journal of School Health (Vol. 77, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) was used by a city school district (~11,000 students) in the upper Midwest to monitor trends for nutrition and physical activity (PA) behaviors both within and between...
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From:Gifted Child Today (Vol. 23, Issue 4)"There are many different kinds of portfolios that are appropriate for use with K-12 students," begins Jennifer Williams, a science teacher from Eden Prairie, MN in a recent issue of Focus (Eisenhower National...
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From:Canadian Journal of Sociology (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedStudies of Black students' schooling experiences and educational outcomes have consistently shown that compared to their peers, they--especially males--tend to underperform academically, be more athletically engaged, and...