April 2013 Teens, Prom and Underage Drinking: The Risk is Real Ah, springtime. Love is in the air (and high school hallways) as teens gear up for prom. April is also Alcohol Awareness Month — and time to address prom’s delights and dangers. The Risk […]
March 2014 Research Reports: Healthy Eating Options Working In and Outside of School Efforts to promote healthy eating in and outside of school are seeing results. A new Harvard School of Public Health study reports that kids are eating more fruits and veggies. New federal standards requiring schools to offer healthier meals have […]
June 2013 Study: Tobacco in Movies Down; Alcohol Use Up New research published in JAMA Pediatrics and featured in a recent Education Week Blog, shows that the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), enacted 15 years ago in which the motion picture industry agreed not to pay for product placement in various forms of media, including movies, […]
May 2014 May 18 through May 24 marks SAMHSA’s third annual National Prevention Week: Our Lives. Our Health. Our Future. Why is this important? Consider these statistics compiled by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): In the past […]
October 2013 Study: Peer Pressure Tests Grade-Schoolers, Not Just Teens In what University of Maryland researchers are calling an investigation into “the group dynamics of childhood,” a new study reports that peer group influences affect children beginning in the elementary school years. The research, published in a recent issue of […]
June 2014 Research: ‘Learning By Heart’ Says SEL Underpins Academic Success What would it take to weave social and emotional learning (SEL) into the daily fabric of our nation’s schools? What distinct practices, programs, and structures help schools embed SEL into ongoing teaching and learning? Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman, co-founders of the nonprofit organization […]
October 2013 Study: Cyberbullying Rampant Among High School Students As Bullying Prevention Month draws to a close, educators, parents and students everywhere know that the challenge to stop the bullying continues every month of the year. Stories continue to make headlines regarding bullying, cyberbullying and suicides in schools and communities […]
Summer 2014 NPR Survey: Parenting Teens is Stressful National Public Radio, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, recently conducted a poll of 2,500 adults to look at the extent of stress in America. Among groups most likely to […]
November 2013 Research: Gun Violence in PG-13 Movies Has Tripled According to Ohio State University researchers, the amount of gun violence shown in PG-13 films has more than tripled since 1985, the year the rating was introduced. “It’s shocking how gun use has skyrocketed in movies that are often marketed directly […]
Connect with Kids September 2014 News & Trends THE ATTENDANCE & ACHIEVEMENT ISSUE RESEARCH & NEWS . RESOURCE GUIDE . CONNECT WITH KIDS IN ACTION . VIDEOS AND LESSON PLANS SEPTEMBER NUMBERS BEST PREDICTOR OF LONG-TERM ATTENDANCE RATES According to a new research study fromThe Baltimore Education Research Consortium, student attendance rates in September are […]
December 2013 Trends on Teens and Online Shopping The holiday season brings a flurry of shopping, no matter one’s age. But teens, in particular, are shopping online, according to a recent survey “Taking Stock With Teens” published by the investment firm Piper Jaffray. The survey found that 79 percent of […]
February 2013 UCLA Bullying Study: It’s Cool to be Cruel UCLA psychologists report that when it comes to bullying behavior among middle school students, both physical aggression and spreading rumors are rewarded by middle school peers. “The ones who are cool bully more, and the ones who bully more are seen […]
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