Teaching that it’s OK to be gay
NBC News reports on integrating gay, lesbian and transgender issues into classrooms in Colorado. Seven states have “no promo homo” laws that forbid positive portrayal of homosexuality in public...
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How to teach empathy — by screaming insults?
At a Camp Diversity retreat, high school students are told to act out racism, sexism, anti-gay and anti-Muslim bias to build empathy. Photo: Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle Thousands of Bay Area...
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New teen fiction genre: School shootings
Books about school shootings are a popular new subgenre in young-adult fiction, reports Mark Walsh on Ed Week. Lilia Martinez, 15, a student in Michigan “estimates that of the 28 books she read over...
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Those unhappy college years
Here’s more on the fragility theme: A quarter of college students were diagnosed with mental health conditions within the past year,” concludes a study published in Depression Anxiety. One in five...
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Transgender suicide risk is high
Half of female-to-male transgender teens have attempted suicide, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Suicide attempts also are much higher for adolescents who don’t identify exclusively as...
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Why are kids killing themselves?
The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study. Anxiety and depression diagnoses are way up for teenagers....
View ArticleParents, stop coddling your kids
Students and parents disrespect teachers, complained Julie Marburger in a Facebook post that went viral. She teaches sixth grade in a suburb of Dallas. Administration always seems to err on the side...
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27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a breath. That doesn’t mean they’re transgender or gay. Most are...
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Don’t blame tech for teen suicides
Don’t blame technology for teen suicides, writes Mike Males in the Washington Monthly. Rates are much higher for rural and small-town whites — teens and adults — than for urban dwellers. Smartphones...
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Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
Parents and teachers say the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx is unsafe. Photo: Gregg Vigliotti/New York Times At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate,...
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