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...have to be an epidemiologist to know that America's children have a weight problem. In the classroom and on the playground, across socioeconomic and racial groups, kids have been getting heavier over the past three decades. But a new study published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows some evidence that the childhood obesity "epidemic" may finally be leveling off. Researchers led by Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed survey data gathered between 1999 and 2006, and found that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among American schoolchildren...
...Canadian and someone who has occasionally used your magazine in my classroom, I was shocked and dismayed by your most recent cover with Obama on it, along with the line, "And the Winner* Is ..." Your coverage has only served, north of the border, to illustrate how the media are no longer, if they ever truly were, dedicated to honest, unbiased coverage of events. You're not even pretending to honor that idea. I'll stick to Maclean's for my classroom material from now on. I am not naive enough to believe it is any different from TIME...
...features in competition for the Palme d'Or, plus special screenings (like Sunday's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), and another 20 or so in the sidebar program called Un Certain Regard. But there are times when a Pied Piper stands outside our classroom, luring us to play hooky...
...Ed’s stated missions is to tie what students learn in the classroom to their lives in the present...
...Locke, whose population of 2,600 is roughly 65% Latino and 35% black, Johnson admits that her classmates tend to segregate at lunch and even in the classroom, where blacks and Latinos often sit on opposite sides of the room. "But those are cliques," she says. "It's not like we're mean to each other." Senior Oscar Hernandez, 18, says the May 9 melee started out as a simple schoolyard conflict. "It's not about racism - it's just individuals having problems with each other," he says. "But when you see your friend being beat up, you're going...