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Healthier Students Are Better Learners


1.The Role of Schools

It is neither reasonable nor realistic to expect that,on their own, schools can close the gaps in education or eliminate healthy disparities among the nation’s youth. Schools should not be solely responsible for addressing these complex and recalcitrant problems. There are essential roles to be played by families, communities,  Health care  systems, legislators, media, and by economic policy.  All of these (and other) social institutions should, and must, contribute to solving 
these problem The important role of schools in addressing health issues has been recognized by leading educational professional organizations, policy making, and interstitial group. 


2.An Opportune Time for Change


Provided resources to assist schools in addressing some health topics such as safety and  Drug  use prevention, but it has not provided leadership for integrating school health into the fundamental mission of schools and supporting the widespread development and implementation of high quality, strategically planned, and effectively coordinated approache. Community and full service schools offer in-school programs and services, including health and  mental health programs and services to support youth before and after school. Despite the widespread and substantial Investment in school health programs and services, current investments are likely to yield only limited educational benefits to students for several reason




3. Strategic Priorities

The current analysis establishes strategic priorities based on their relevance to educational outcomes and to closing the achievement gap. Three criteria were considered:  (1) prevalence and extent of health disparities, (2) evidence of causal effects on educational outcomes, and (3) feasibility of implementing proven or promising school-based programs and policies. If a health problem is the cause of an educational disparity, the Health problems must be statistically and temporally associated with the unfavorable educational outcome.
Based on these criteria, the following educationally relevant health disparities were selected as priorities: (1) vision, (2) asthma, (3)  Teen pregnancy, (4) aggression and violence, (5) physical activity, (6) breakfast, and (7) inattention and Hyperactive.


4. Causal Pathway

One or more of  five causal pathways—the mechanisms by which health factors influence motivation and ability to learn—are identified and described for each health factor: (1)   sensory perception, (2) cognition, (3) school connectedness and engagement, (4) absenteeism, and (5) temporary or permanent dropping out. Connectedness is essentially about interpersonal relationships, both with peers and school staff.  It is the extent to which students perceive that adults and peers in the school community care about them as students and as individual. Because educational outcomes are influenced by many forces differentially across various contexts, each health factor, addressed separately, should not be expected to have large or consistent effects on educational outcomes. Thus, beyond their individual effects, educationally relevant health disparities, collectively, can have an influential role in shaping the educational and social lives of the nation’s urban minority youth.


5. Delimitations and Overall Inten

Improved health status for all children is a worthy goal, but need is particularly urgent among urban minority youth who, as with adults, have great intergenerational educational and health disparities. Second, though health may influence  education  outcomes across the lifespan, attention is limited to health factors that influence school-aged youth.  A third delimitation is that health factors were selected based, in part, on feasibility of implementing proven or promising school based programs and services. Each of the educationally relevant health disparities is described with respect to nature and scope of the problem, prevalence and disparities affecting urban minority Youth , causal pathways by which the respective health disparity adversely affects motivation or ability to learn, ways that school programs and policies can address the problem, and evidence supporting proven or promising approaches.




http://www.equitycampaign.org/article.asp?id=7381

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College Students and Stress


College life can be very stressful. Sometimes parents, faculty and others tend to idealize their college experience and remember it as that idyllic time when they had few worries or responsibilities. To students currently attending college, however, the process is often stressful and frustrating. The competition for grades, the need to perform, relationships, career choice, and many other aspects of the college environment cause stress. Before condemning stress outright, we need to understand that stress is only harmful when it is excessive.



Warning Signs
  • Changes in sleep patterns
  • Change in eating patterns
  • More frequent headaches than is normal for you
  • Shoter temper than is normal for you
  • Recurring colds and minor illness
  • Frequent muscle ache and/or tightness
  • More disorganize than normal for you
  • Increase difficulty in task completion
  • A greater sense of persistent time pressure
  • Increase generalized frustration and anger




Although some stress reactions are part of deeper and more serious emotional problems, many are not, and can be handled with relatively simple counseling and stress-management techniques. You can use the following guidelines to help manage your stress understand your role in stress reactions.


1.Develop a Balance Lifestyle

Stress reaction to varrios situation are also  affected by your overall level of health. Someone who is alwas feeling overwhelmed, eat poorly  and doesn’tget enought sleep usually has limited ability to cope with stessful event. You need to pay attention to your own well being. The right balance of sleep, food, exercise, work, school and recreation is crucial.




2. Gain Perspective by Discussing Problems

It is easy to get caught up in a problem or a narrow view of something you are doing, and to lose perspective and feel that a failure or roadblock is a catastrophe. Discussing your problems with a trusted, empathic friend can allow you to gain new perspective and can allow you to move out of what might seem like an isolated and negative internal world. The act of verbalizing your concerns and putting them together will often help give you a sense of control.


3. Learn Specific Relaxation Techniques


Relaxation techniques are extremely valuable tools in stress management. Most of the techniques like meditation, self-hypnosis, and deep muscle relaxation work in a similar fashion. They make it possible for you to spend a short period of time in a state of profound relaxation. In this state both the body and the mind are at rest and the outside world is screened out for a period of time. The practice of one of these techniques on a regular basis can provide a wonderfully calming and relaxing feeling that seems to have a lasting effect for many people. Your energy level and ability to cope with the external world are replenished. Practitioners and researchers have reported many positive life effects from the regular practice of one of these techniques.


4. Clarify Your Values and Develop a Sense of Life Meaning


Stress is often caused by general unhappiness and a sense of aimlessness or lack of purpose. People sometimes wind up making choices and living life styles that really don't fit them. A student may be studying accounting when he or she really wants to be an artist, or he or she may have a wide circle of friends, but not really have the kind of intimate relationships that feel fulfilling.


Source from : http://www.counseling.ufl.edu/cwc/Stress-and-College-Students.aspx
                    : http://www.ulifeline.org/main/factsheets/78

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