Despite the strong emphasis in recent years on encouraging students to pursue science and technology fields, little progress has been made to change the makeup of those… Read more »
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
08/06/2016
National Public Radio
Ideas42 — a nonprofit research-into-action lab — designs policy interventions to help people make better decisions about their lives. Its primary method is through what's called "behavioral… Read more »
08/04/2016
Campus Safety Magazine
Alison Kiss from the Clery Center discusses confidential and mandated reporting, and how campuses can work with counselors to ensure victims get the help they need.
08/04/2016
U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) issued guidance in the form of a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) that emphasizes… Read more »
08/04/2016
Chalkbeat Indiana
With research increasingly pointing to health and academic benefits for teens who are able to sleep later, some Indianapolis Public Schools board members are calling on the district to explore the… Read more »
08/04/2016
Tampa Bay Times
The goal is to destigmatize mental health, increase awareness and access to community services for youth, and build systems within schools with evidence-based intervention and prevention practices… Read more »
08/04/2016
Los Angeles Times
Drug and alcohol use among Laguna Beach Unified School District students has shown a decrease, but results from the latest California Healthy Kids survey still raised alarm with the high school… Read more »
08/04/2016
The New York Times
Where once the campus amenities arms race was waged over luxury dorms and recreation facilities, now colleges and universities are building deluxe structures for the generation of wonderful ideas… Read more »
08/03/2016
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape, coming out in September from Edge of Sports, investigates the systematic ways the author says rape culture is… Read more »
08/02/2016
medicalxpress.com
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health with collaborators at the Federal University of Sao Paulo studied the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and patterns of… Read more »
08/01/2016
WFAA
As the Campus Carry law goes into effect on Monday, universities across the state will face the day they have prepared for over a year. But the law still prohibits a majority of students from… Read more »
08/01/2016
Inside Higher Ed
The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success -- a group of dozens of leading colleges and universities -- has released its first application form. Most of the questions are similar to the… Read more »
08/01/2016
WISH TV
High school students could have the highest rates of diagnosed anxiety disorders, at least in Indianapolis, according to one doctor.
08/01/2016
American Institutes for Research
Frank Rider shares uplifting findings from America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2016.
08/01/2016
The Rivard Report
On Tuesday, July 26, 2016, state Sen. José Menéndez (D-26) hosted a counselor roundtable so that the perspective of school mental health providers could be included in Texas… Read more »
July 2016
07/31/2016
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
In New Hampshire, changes are afoot in the community college sector.
07/31/2016
Star Tribune
Starting this fall, college students throughout Minnesota will be required to complete training on sexual-assault prevention within their first 10 days of school.
07/29/2016
The Atlantic
From physics to forestry, schools are asking professors to reconsider the lens through which they teach.
07/29/2016
Inside Higher Ed
When the White House urged colleges to conduct these surveys in 2014, there were few choices. Now there are many, but no consensus on which works best.
07/28/2016
The Brookings Institution
Public universities typically charge students less than the full cost of education, using funds from state and local government and other sources to cover the difference.