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Word: health (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boosting academic performance through better health and fitness. Schools should ensure access to health-care and counseling programs, preferably through a "health coordinator" or on-site clinic. Specifically, the report calls on middle schools to provide family-planning information to young adolescents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help For At-Risk Kids | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...world where a great number of children arrive at school undernourished, neglected and in poor health, many feel that schools have little choice but to try to fill the gap left by the collapse of families and other social supports. "Parents just aren't there today," says David Lawrence, principal of the Thomas J. Quirk Middle School in Hartford, Conn. "We still are. The kids can't be left to founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help For At-Risk Kids | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...best argument in favor of the foundation's suggestions is that many of them have already been tried successfully: according to one study, 63% of middle schools provide health instruction, 40% assign adult advisers to students, 33% use team teaching, and 28% offer sex education. Breaking up large, impersonal schools into smaller units is also starting to gain acceptance. "It's a lot more work, but it's very stimulating," says Elizabeth Ophals, a social-studies teacher at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in New York City, where houses and team teaching were adopted last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help For At-Risk Kids | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...price tag for transforming the country's middle schools will doubtless be higher than the federal, state or local governments want to pay. But, warns Carnegie, the real choice is whether to fund health clinics, counseling and teacher training today or pay the far higher cost of dropouts, an ill-prepared work force and swelling welfare and prison rolls tomorrow. "The nation cannot afford to continue neglecting these youth," concludes the report. Lorraine Monroe, director of the Center for Minority Achievement at Manhattan's Bank Street College of Education, agrees. "We can't hold school the way we used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help For At-Risk Kids | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Steps are being taken to fill medicine's information void. In a new field of study called patient-outcomes research, hospitals, clinics, health-maintenance organizations and other medical groups are collecting data on how well various treatments work. Armed with such knowledge, doctors should be able to get better results. Dr. Paul Ellwood, chairman of the InterStudy health-policy center near Minneapolis, predicts that within a year at least 100 patient- outcomes projects will be under way, with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physician, Inform Thyself | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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