CNN reported recently that students taking exams at a suburban San Diego, Calif., high school are handed the test, only to see an advertisement reading, “Brace yourself for a great semester! Braces by Henry, Stephen P. Henry D.M.D.”

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Reading Poynter colleague Al Tompkins’ post about high demand at food banks made me think: How are school service clubs responding to the financial crisis in their communities?

Have food drives replaced trash pick-up days? Are clubs that might… Read more

Gift giving in an economic crisis? Fear not. Green gifts to the rescue! 

In your next issue, why not provide students with “A Guide to Green Gift Giving”?  Here are a few ideas to get you started. 

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For high schoolers in a New York suburb, choosing next semester’s classes just got a little more interesting. 

According to a recent article in the New York Times, the students at Pelham Memorial High School can now have… Read more

With unemployment at 6.5 percent and predicted to rise to 8 percent by mid-2009, the impact will be far-reaching. Even to teens. Perhaps especially to teens, whose families could be affected and whose own job prospects diminished.

Poynter’s Al Tompkins… Read more

Students and citizens,

The day is finally upon us.  After a campaign for the U.S. Preisdency that felt like an eternity, tomorrow is Election Day. By midnight, it should be official: voters will reveal the 44th president.

Even if few… Read more

In high school, who cheats?  Slackers, jocks, socialites?  All stereotypes aside, a scarier question emerges: Who doesn’t cheat? 

Dr. Donald McCabe of Rutgers follows the cheating trend, surveying high schoolers on their tendency to cheat since the mid-1990s.… Read more

“Covering financial markets isn’t exactly the reason my students signed up for journalism,” began Paul Kandall, student media adviser at Palo Alto (Calif.) High. But his students might be willing to try “if they could see their way in.”

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The New York Times featured a great alternative story form this week, creating “Financial Crisis Hits Teens,” a video filmed at Elisabeth Irwin High School documenting the economic crisis’s effect on a high school student.

The video’s creators sit… Read more

A new study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency [PDF] lays out a disturbing picture, Poynter’s Al Tompkins points out in a recent Morning Meeting column.

The report calls interpersonal violence — physical, emotional or verbal abuse within… Read more