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...both sexes benefit from the academic climate, leadership opportunities, and role models found in single sex schools. Indeed, some recent research has showed improvement not only in academic subjects like math but also in attendance and behavior. Given that poor children of Hispanic and African-American minorities are most at-risk for dropping out, according to U.S. Department of Education’s 2002 report, this is a strong argument for single sex schools...
Prepared Table Charter School in Houston seemed like the perfect solution for at-risk youths. Long under the country's microscope for subpar public schools, Texas embraced the concept of using taxpayer money to set up these specialty schools, or charters, as a means of overhauling a struggling state educational system...
...describes Harvard’s new protocol in sweeping terms: “Monitoring the victims—probably with the Cambridge Health Department, lab testing to trace back to original source, caring for the sickest students, and cooperating with area hospitals. Prevention and prophylaxis [identifying and preemptively treating at-risk but not yet ill students] is always a concern.” Koh went on to cite a major difference between the health crisis efforts of today and those of ten years ago. “Every school of public health now has a center for public health preparedness...
...strike one in 75 Americans at some point in their lifetime. In a study published yesterday by the journal Nature, David E. Fisher, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, has found that induced tans protect at-risk mice—and, potentially, humans—from skin cancer. For the study, Fisher generated red-haired mice, which, like fair-skinned humans, were unable to tan. After applying a topical cream, which triggered the tanning machinery in the mice skin cells, Fisher was able to give mice...
...bill that was loaded with goodies for New York recently, Hillary's staff bombarded reporters' e-mail with seven press releases in just over an hour, making sure she got credit for communications equipment for Onondaga and Rockland counties, economic-development assistance for Staten Island, a program for at-risk kids on Long Island, a crime lab for Monroe County and much more...