May 2008

Volume 9, Number 4

A report from the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools on the policies, politics and financing of health programming in schools

In This Issue

Worth Noting EPA Set to Guide Districts in Building Safer Schools Mumps Outbreak May Require Inoculation Changes NIH Lists Psychotherapies Known to Work With Children and Adolescents April News Alerts

Federal Education Department Proposes Revisions to School Privacy Law
The massacre at Virginia Tech triggers proposed revisions to FERPA to permit school administrators to act in cases of emergency without fear of violating privacy provisions.

Multitasking and the New Media: How is this Affecting Our Children?
Youngsters sit in front of their television sets, chat on their cell phones and IM their friends on their computers but no one is sure how to measure this multitasking with new media and its effects.

Credits: Virginia Robinson, Editor, robinsoneditor@attglobal.net

Health & Health Care in Schools is a monthly journal published in html and PDF versions by The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools. Support for Health & Health Care in Schools is provided by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.