Failing students get college aid
Failing students lose federal college aid — but it takes a year or more. In California’s Central Valley, 25 percent of Pell Grant recipients fail to make “satisfactory academic progress.” Also on...
View ArticlePoverty rises, but kids are doing OK
Child poverty is up — but so is “child well-being” — according to the Foundation for Child Development. Child well-being is up more than 5 percent since 2001 in the index, which evaluates 28 factors....
View ArticlePushing drugs in school
Diagnosed as hyperactive in first grade, Ted Gup’s son was prescribed Ritalin and Adderall, Gup writes in the New York Times. In another age, David might have been called “rambunctious.” His battery...
View ArticleDistrict monitors students’ social media posts
In hopes of preventing violence, drug abuse, bullying and suicide, a suburban Los Angeles school district is monitoring middle and high school students’ social media posts, reports CNN. Glendale is...
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Why dads matter
Dad isn’t dispensable, write Lois M. Collins and Marjorie Cortez in The Atlantic. A third of American children are growing up without their biological father. It’s not just a benign “alternative...
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Teen drug use falls as more states legalize
Teen alcohol and drug use declined in 2014, according to the 2014 Monitoring the Future study. The annual survey questions 40,000 students in 8th, 10th and 12th grade. “In 2014, a year when marijuana...
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From addiction to graduation
Even as a drug addict, Wayne Miller was an enterprising guy. He enrolled in the Community College of Vermont to collect financial aid to fund his drug-dealing business, he told Vermont Public Radio. “I...
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Teen drug use falls — including marijuana
Drug and alcohol use is falling for U.S. teens, according to the 2015 Monitoring the Future Survey. “Teen marijuana use has fallen slightly over the past five years, at a time when four states and the...
View Article‘Sober High’ schools serve young addicts
Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs? asks John D. Tulenko in the Hechinger Report. Independence Academy in Brockton, Mass. is one of 33 “recovery schools,” public high schools for...
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