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Cancer Rate Sounds Alarms
Connecticut state health officials are investigating 31 cases of cancer
among students and staff at schools in the Amity regional school district,
which serves three Connecticut towns. A prominent local doctor, who raised
concerns about the cancer rates after conducting his own informal review,
noted that "Amity, if indeed the statistics hold up, has a problem of
epic proportions."
Source: ctnow.com
Dept. of ED: We Mean Business
The U.S. Department of Education sent out a strongly worded memo to U.S.
school commissioners last week calling educators who try to lower academic
standards or otherwise skirt the requirements of the No Child Left Behind
Act "enemies of equal justice and equal opportunity."
Source: The
New York Times
Bully-Free Zone Offers Safety
Administrators at West Middle School in Michigan's Plymouth-Canton School
District have declared the school a "bully-free zone" in an effort to
stop bullying and help both its victims and its perpetrators.
Source: The
Detroit News
DARE Overhaul
A revamped Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) curriculum is showing
encouraging results in early studies. Seventh graders in six cities who
took the course were more likely to find taking illegal drugs socially
unacceptable and were better at refusing drugs than students in a control
group. The original DARE program, which was created in 1983, has been
criticized as ineffective.
Source: CNN.com
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10/31/2002
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