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San Luis Obispo Tribune - MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The school district has tightened identification checks on substitute teachers after last month’s arrest of a 21-year-old man who posed as a sub for three days at a middle school. Substitute teachers at the Moreno Valley

Teens Pass on Fruits, Veggies
Heart Info - As the teens moved from middle school to high school, they dropped almost one serving of fruits and vegetables from their daily diet, report researchers. Teens moving from high school to early adulthood dropped almost another serving of fruits and

Sports program proposed for middle schools
New Britain Herald - NEWINGTON - A new program request for the 2007-08 school year could give middle- school students a wide variety of new extracurricular activities designed to spark physical activity in adolescents and young teenagers. If approved by the Board of

Sixth-grade students ESCAPE after school
Tulsa World - After-school programs take care of millions of kindergarten through fifth-grade pupils nationwide, but middle-school students often are on their own. “Day care ends after fifth grade — we put them on the bus and ship them home,” said Gena Taylor, a

What it takes to reach, teach middle schoolers
Boston Globe - RE MICHAEL JONAS’S “Junior high” (Ideas, Jan. 29): Students between ages 10 and 14 experience developmental growth comparable to that occurring from birth to age 3. Forcing a middle school student into a high school environment won’t eliminate normal

Fair projects Marvin School scientists show their stuff
Greenwich Time - at Marvin visited the science fair with their class to see the accomplishments of their classmates. Many of the children came away wanting to participate in the city science fair, which will be held tomorrow through Wednesday at Roton Middle School.

Franklin students play detective with IMSA program
State Journal-Register - At least that’s the initial conclusion drawn by Carly Piland, a seventh-grader who with 59 other Franklin Middle School students, has been studying the crime scene - fictional, of course. The students are in an after-school enrichment program