| Teen marijuana use in Colorado found lower than national average Posted: 20 Jun 2016 05:38 PM PDT  Marijuana consumption by Colorado high school students has dipped slightly since the state first permitted recreational cannabis use by adults, a new survey showed on Monday, contrary to concerns that legalization would increase pot use by teens. The biannual poll by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment also showed the percentage of high school students indulging in marijuana in Colorado was smaller than the national average among teens. According to the department, 21.2 percent of Colorado high school students surveyed in 2015 had used marijuana during the preceding 30 days, down from 22 percent in 2011, the year before voters statewide approved recreational cannabis use by adults 21 and older.
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| School’s Out, but Lunch Is Still in Session for the Summer Posted: 20 Jun 2016 05:01 PM PDT  While some students boycott unappetizing food served at their public schools, the campus cafeteria is often the only place where millions of low-income children eat a regular, healthy meal. When the bell rings to mark the beginning of summer vacation, for some kids it also marks the beginning of hunger pangs. Indeed, a report released last week from the Food Research and Action Center found that only about 16 percent of the kids who eat free and reduced-price lunches during the school year participated in federal or state-run Summer Nutrition Programs last summer.
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| University graduates face higher brain tumour risk: study Posted: 20 Jun 2016 03:46 PM PDT  People with at least three years of higher education are at greater risk for cancerous brain tumours than those with no more than nine years of schooling, perplexed researchers said Tuesday. "There is a 19 percent increased risk that university-educated men could be diagnosed with glioma," said Amal Khanolkar, a scientist at the Institute of Child Health in London and lead author of a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community. "It was a surprising result which is difficult to explain," Khanolkar told AFP.
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| How High School Educators Should Address Traumatic Events in Class Posted: 20 Jun 2016 05:00 AM PDT Addressing a traumatic event, like the recent mass shooting in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub this month, with high school students can be a challenging task for teachers. With high school students in particular, there will be some discussion about the event, regardless of whether teachers explicitly mention the incident in class or not, says Benjamin Fernandez, lead school psychologist for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia. Then, they can model calm and appropriate coping skills to students because no matter how old students are, they will take a cue on how to act based on how the adults in their lives are reacting, he says. |
| Students Demand Mental Health Counselors Reflect On-Campus Diversity Posted: 20 Jun 2016 03:16 AM PDT  As awareness spreads and stigma declines, college students are demanding more resources and support for mental health on campus. For LGBT students and students of color the need is acute. With more students of color—many of them first-generation college students—attending college than ever, according to the U.S. Department of Education, campus psychologists face a greater variety of issues to handle.
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| Six killed in Mexico during teachers' protest against police Posted: 19 Jun 2016 09:22 PM PDT  Six people were killed and 53 injured in Mexico on Sunday when clashes broke out between members of a teachers' trade union and police at a protest that police say had been infiltrated by armed individuals who shot at officers and threw petrol bombs. Enrique Galindo, the head of Mexico's federal police, said masked individuals who were not affiliated to the union were behind much of the violence, lobbing Molotov cocktails and shooting at police and civilians. "These kinds of radicalized protests generate violence," he told a news conference in the state capital of Oaxaca City.
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