Behavioral Health

By WINNIE HU
Graduation rates in New Jersey and elsewhere have become a measure of the larger community outside the school and whether civil servants are doing their job.

The number of pupils suspended 10 times or more in a year more than doubled between 2004 and 2007, while permanent exclusions fell by 13%. Disruptive pupils are being given repeat suspensions rather than being permanently excluded from England's schools, official figures suggest.

by Andrea Gordon
A growing number of parents and family therapists are seeking help for teens who appear to be hooked on cyberspace.

The Government has announced that children as young as five will receive sex and relationship education lessons under plans to cut teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Sex and relationship education will become compulsory for all five to 16-year-olds in English state schools under proposals expected to come into force in September 2010.

NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) — Students at a suburban St. Louis high school headed to the gymnasium for HIV testing this week after an infected person told health officials as many as 50 teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS.

by Trish Crawford
Boys, not just girls, should also be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), says the Nobel-prize winning

More sexually aggressive behavior among students reported Los Angeles conference brings educators and police together to discuss how to address the problem and that of teachers who molest students. A 5-year-old boy was reportedly sexually assaulted by a 6-year-old male classmate at a Los Angeles-area school recently.

A council is to become the first in the country to ban new takeaways from within 400m of any of its schools.

THE parents of a boy injured at Xavier have blasted a psychologist who revealed he had counselled several bullied students from the school.

Facebook, the social networking site, is to blame for 'friendship addiction' and insecurity in users, say psychologists.

Children as young as five will be given sex education under Government plans to cut teenage pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases.

The government has said schools in England will have to give pupils sex and relationship lessons from the age of five.

Oakland-based Sports4Kids runs programs that bring back traditional playground games — and, principals say, reduce fights, increase physical activity and improve kids' behavior and concentration in class.

Every four minutes a student drops out of a Texas public school, according to a new report from the Intercultural Development Research Association. That means that, across the state, one-third of the students who began high school in fall 2004 left without a diploma before the end of the 2008 school year.

Children from broken families are nearly five times more likely to suffer damaging mental troubles than those whose parents stay together, Government research has found.