Why do state interventions in struggling school districts fail? A report released today by the Center for American Progress examines the educational, political, and organizational shortcomings that ...

1 Hunter New England Population Health, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 3 Hunter Medical Research ...

School-based interventions for health issues pertinent to adolescents have been linked with beneficial outcomes, and a study published this week showed potential long-term benefits of a school-based ...

Obesity prevention during adolescence is a health priority. The ‘Physical Activity 4 Everyone’ (PA4E1) study tested a multi-component physical activity intervention in 10 secondary schools from ...

Objectives To assess if a multi-strategy intervention effectively increased weekly minutes of structured physical activity (PA) implemented by classroom teachers at 12 months and 18 months. Methods A ...

Throughout Tiffany Trevenen’s more than 30-year career in Moffat County schools in Craig, Colo., she has seen students experience the same math struggles again and again. “It was very apparent in ...

At Martin Luther King Elementary School on Thursday, almost two dozen fifth-graders sat in Lessie Simpson's technology class, fidgeting with their fingers, and sitting up right taking in instruction.

The Wake County Public School System plans to require intervention teams at each school to help students at risk of not passing a course or grade level. State law — and current school system processes ...

We don’t suspend students too often in my school because it’s something I’m convinced doesn’t work. Years of research shows that. In fact, it not only affects the child suspended, suspension affects ...

On the surface, Modesto City Schools’ “intervention centers” sound like a great way to help students who are getting into trouble. The district describes these centers – located in each high school – ...