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News Clips
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) tracks trends and developments in issues related to school climate and conditions for learning through online media sites, blogs, syndication and aggregation services, and other news resources from local, regional, and national media outlets. Browse this ongoing collection of posts to learn about what’s happening in communities near you and across the nation.
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Displaying 5672 News Clips.August 2016
Students who say colleges have mishandled sexual assault complaints demand on social media that colleges #JustSaySorry. Colleges have long been hesitant to apologize, even when found to be at… Read more »
All Valley College students take an online orientation class when they sign up for classes, but college officials believe that the human touch offers something more.
The health fair was sponsored by the Healthcare Network of Southwest Florida to help families prepare for the start of school Monday and to celebrate National Health Center Week, which… Read more »
One Norwalk middle school will be able to offer increased mental health care for students this fall, thanks to a grant from the Fairfield County Community Foundation.
Understaffed counseling centers at Texas universities say they are frustrated by their inability to reach students, but the state doesn't earmark money for mental health services, and lawmakers… Read more »
When fall classes begin later this month, Kennesaw State University will open with a new housing option to help homeless students attending the college.
Iowa City Community School District officials Tuesday clarified next steps toward improving disparities in students' experiences at school.
According to the latest Civil Rights Data Collection Survey, more than 85% of Florida and Texas districts had zero bullying incidents on the basis of race, sex or disability during the 2013-… Read more »
It’s the biggest health concern among college athletes, but remains largely unaddressed. Now the NCAA is rolling out guidelines to help schools prevent and identify athletes battling with mental… Read more »
At college campuses across the country, students have been increasingly seeking mental health services at a rate that far outpaces enrollment growth.
These schools are actively working to decrease the Zika risk-level for their students.
Those in higher education now serve more students with more stress than ever before, yet have done little to learn about the strategies to help them better manage it, argues Karen Costa.
If colleges are a hunting ground, as they've been called, for sexual predators, advocates say that high schools are the breeding ground — and that any solution must start there. They say efforts… Read more »
What the school needs the community to help with is reducing chronic absence, starting in the early grades. School district leaders and teachers absolutely know that attending school — all day,… Read more »
In 2014-2015, students 16 and younger were referred to the S.C Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) 265 times. According to Sunday’s report in The Post and Courier, that is more than any other… Read more »
In 2014-2015, students 16 and younger were referred to the S.C Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) 265 times. According to Sunday’s report in The Post and Courier, that is more than any other… Read more »
Hundreds of bus drivers gathered at the Orange County Convention Center Monday for training on how to identify and intervene when students are being bullied on the way to and from school.
A new study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that college students who misuse stimulant drugs are more likely to have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),… Read more »
For college students who are poor, the margin between graduating and dropping out can be as slim as an unpaid utility bill or a busted transmission. Even if they have grants and loans to pay for… Read more »