Television Review: Middle School Sounds Scary, and Summer Is No Picnic
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Everything about âThe Last Day of Summerâ will remind you, and not in a good way, of âGroundhog Day.â
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Hoover High School is winning football games, just like it did during its two-year run on MTV's "Two-A-Days" show. It's just not much fun this year.
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NEW YORK  - As school doors open across the   country, teenagers should be sure to adjust their summer sleep   schedule to their new school schedule, experts advise. In other   words, they should start hitting the sack earlier so that they   will be able to awake earlier and be alert in morning classes.
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The reality soap opera "Starting Over" may sometimes seem like the sanest show on television, but in its second season is already not as good as it used to be.
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As schools expand to include students with physiological and psychological challenges, the school nurse has become more than just someone to detect a fever from a fake.
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NEW YORK  - Ten healthy female students at  a rural, co-ed North Carolina high school had repeated bouts of  seizures, swooning and hyperventilation over a four-month  period in 2002 -- an outbreak that experts are calling an  example of mass hysteria.
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By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Teenagers who view sexual content on television, even if it only involves characters talking about sex, are twice as likely to start having intercourse in the ensuing year compared with peers who do not watch such content.    Sexual content on TV was also more likely to hasten adolescents' movement from one "base" to another, in other words, from kissing to breast fondling to genital touching and on to oral sex, new research found...
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Whenever the season finale of a show has guns, pills, a crazy assistant principal, at least one knife and an auditorium full of improbably attractive teenagers in prom gowns and tuxes, you know it's going to be "good," at least in the sense that "The O.C." or "Beverly Hills, 90210" was "good."
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Science education in U.S. elementary   and middle schools is overly broad and superficial, according   to a government report issued on Thursday that also faults   science curricula for assuming children are simplistic   thinkers.
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 15--Summer is nearly over and you feel like you haven't been outside enough. Too many hours at work. Too much TV.
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The New York City school system has become one of the nationâs largest summer soup kitchens.
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By Jaynelle Ramon, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 1--It's a great time to be a TV watcher -- big shows coming back from long hiatuses and no repeats until summer.
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Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families?
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A high school without sports teams? Friday Night Lights Out? It's what Larry David would call a whole bowl of wrong.
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This riveting documentary explores Kids on Fire, a summer camp in Devils Lake, N.D., that grooms children to be soldiers in "God's army."
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Flash animation or tennis? As summer camps open for business, parents need to seek out a good balance.
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By Avian Carrasquillo  acarrasquillo@@dailyherald.com  Teachers often hear about what students did on their summer vacation at the beginning of the year, but at Jack London Middle School in Wheeling this fall, the tables will turn.