Education Week: Is Education News Falling Off Front Pages?:
"Billions in federal economic-stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.
That’s because education coverage of any type barely registered in newspapers and on news Web sites, on television news broadcasts, or on the radio airwaves in the first nine months of this year, according to the report, released here this week by the Brookings Institution."
Social media linked to early substance use in US pre-teens
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*Social media use, texting, and video chatting linked to increased
experimentation with alcohol, nicotine, or marijuana among early
adolescents*
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