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• High school student takes a swing with baseball board game
• Chicago schools chief to take temporary leave amid probe
• Chicago schools chief takes leave amid federal probe
• To divest or not to divest: College students on fossil fuel debate
• Lawyer: Chicago Public Schools chief requests leave amid federal probe over no-bid contract
• Adolescent e-cigarette use triples: Is 'vaping' renormalizing nicotine?
• Cyberbullying is avenged by a digital ghost in horror 'Unfriended'
• How #IWishMyTeacherKnew can help teachers support students
• Teaching kids about sex abuse in school ups reporting
• Chicago teachers union says schools probe sign of bigger problem
• E-cigarette use triples in US teens
• E-Cig Use Triples in Adolescents, CDC Says

High school student takes a swing with baseball board game Posted: 17 Apr 2015 04:00 PM PDT Plenty of high school students dream of becoming game designers, and a few go ahead and make their own video games. Nathaniel designed the basic rules of the game when he was a small boy, stuck inside on rainy days and unable to play his favorite sport. "They have been very easy to work with and gave great advice when we needed help or when they thought something should be changed," said Nathaniel. Nathaniel and his pals have been selling the game on the streets of their local town.

Chicago schools chief to take temporary leave amid probe Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:15 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett will take a paid leave of absence amid a federal investigation over a roughly $20 million no-bid contract the district awarded to a training academy where she once worked as a consultant, officials announced Friday.

Chicago schools chief takes leave amid federal probe Posted: 17 Apr 2015 02:47 PM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett is taking a leave of absence pending the outcome of a federal probe into a contract the district awarded to a company that had previously employed her, officials said on Friday. "In light of the ongoing federal investigation and its impact on her ability to effectively lead Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett is taking a leave of absence from Chicago Public Schools effective immediately," Board of Education President David Vitale said. Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed Byrd-Bennett to head the nation's third-largest public school system in 2012.

To divest or not to divest: College students on fossil fuel debate Posted: 17 Apr 2015 01:05 PM PDT Students at Harvard University are on the final day of something called Heat Week. It's a week long protest pushing for the University to divest of fossil fuel stocks. It's a movement gaining steam at universities across the country.

Lawyer: Chicago Public Schools chief requests leave amid federal probe over no-bid contract Posted: 17 Apr 2015 10:44 AM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyer: Chicago Public Schools chief requests leave amid federal probe over no-bid contract.

Adolescent e-cigarette use triples: Is 'vaping' renormalizing nicotine? Posted: 17 Apr 2015 10:12 AM PDT The use of electronic cigarettes, or "vaping," tripled among high-school students between 2013-2014, according to a national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  In fact, more high-school students are smoking e-cigarettes than traditional cigarettes, the survey showed. The number of students who reported smoking traditional cigarettes declined by 25 percent between 2013 and 2014, the fastest decrease seen in years.

Cyberbullying is avenged by a digital ghost in horror 'Unfriended' Posted: 17 Apr 2015 09:45 AM PDT "Unfriended," out in U.S. theaters on Friday, follows six high school students gathering on the video conferencing platform Skype on the anniversary of the suicide of a fellow student, who killed herself after an embarrassing video of her was posted online. Filmed entirely as if the events are unfolding on a computer screen, a mysterious entity joins the group's Skype conversation and begins to coerce secrets out of each friend, before exacting gory revenge one by one, as the others watch in horror. It also highlights online trolls, carelessly posting insults from the safety net of being anonymous and behind a computer screen. "We're using horror movie language, but the story is about one of the biggest problems on the Internet." "Unfriended," released by Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures, was an experimental project, made for less than $1 million.

How #IWishMyTeacherKnew can help teachers support students Posted: 17 Apr 2015 08:52 AM PDT In an effort to better understand the complicated home lives of her third graders, one Colorado teacher challenged her students to share one thing that they wished their teacher knew about them. After sharing the sometimes heartbreaking responses on social media with the hashtag #IWishMyTeacherKnew, Kyle Schwartz of Denver started a movement among teachers globally highlighting the importance of connectivity in the classroom, especially with students who may have difficulties at home. Had my students write "I wish my teacher knew___" It's a reality check. Ms. Schwartz, a three-year educator at Doull Elementary in Denver, said the majority of her students come from poverty and rely on the National School Lunch Program for sustenance.

Teaching kids about sex abuse in school ups reporting Posted: 17 Apr 2015 07:38 AM PDT This reinforces the findings of previous reviews, said lead author Kerryann Walsh of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. "The programs increase children's knowledge of child sexual abuse concepts and their skills in reacting and responding to risky situations," Walsh told Reuters Health by email. The reviewers analyzed 24 trials of school-based prevention programs, including a total of almost 6,000 elementary and high school students in the U.S., Canada, China, Germany, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey. Based on questionnaires and vignettes used to test the programs' effects, kids in the programs demonstrated greater knowledge of protective behaviors and knowledge of sex abuse prevention concepts.

Chicago teachers union says schools probe sign of bigger problem Posted: 17 Apr 2015 07:21 AM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - The acting head of the Chicago Teachers Union said on Thursday that a federal probe of the city's public schools chief executive points to a larger pattern of apparent conflicts of interest at the debt-troubled district. Federal authorities are investigating Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and a $20.5 million no-bid contract the district awarded to SUPES Academy, a training facility for principals that had formerly employed her, local media reports said without naming their sources. CPS, the nation's third-largest school district with about 400,000 students, confirmed on Wednesday that federal authorities were investigating suspected misconduct and had requested interviews with employees, but gave no details. A spokesman for SUPES Academy said investigators had obtained records and that it was cooperating.

E-cigarette use triples in US teens Posted: 17 Apr 2015 02:21 AM PDT Some two million US high school students tried e-cigarettes last year, a rate that tripled in just one year, US health authorities said Thursday. The 2014 survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 13.4 percent of high school students said they had smoked an e-cigarette in the past month, up from 4.5 percent from 2013. In middle school, some 3.9 percent of kids (about 450,000 students) said they had tried vaping in the past month according to the 2014 findings, up from 1.1 percent in 2013.

E-Cig Use Triples in Adolescents, CDC Says Posted: 16 Apr 2015 05:01 PM PDT The number of middle and high school students who say they've used e-cigarettes has tripled in just one year, according to new research that underscores health experts' fears about the growing popularity of these nicotine delivery devices among adolescents. About 660,000 high school students reported using e-cigarettes in 2013, but in 2014, that number increased to about 2 million, according to a study published today as part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. And in middle school students, that number went from 120,000 to 450,000, the report said. "This level of increase in such a short time period is alarming and unprecedented," study co-author Dr. Brian King told ABC News.

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