By: LUKE PARKER - Norwest News| 04/02/2010
Students at Massey High School are part of a ground-breaking academic programme producing amazing results.
Facilitators use data from students, which includes those from the nor-west, to set...
Bullying News
Cyber bullying trends concern for new full-time youth aid officer
One in four teens cyber-bullied
Spiteful texts the cruellest form of bullying
The insider: Daily torment inflected by school bullies
Bullying: We...
Stuff.co.nz - Lyn Humphreys - Feb 5, 2010
A mother is pleading for help to control her teenage daughter who has sexually abused young children and is a danger to herself.
The mother says she feels abandoned by Government agencies like...
TVNZ - Feb 5, 2010
A teenager who wrote off a $280,000 car, ending a two-hour spree of drunken offending, was jailed on Friday.
Michael Johnny Kight, 17, pleaded guilty in Napier District Court to a raft of offences including burglary,...
Comprehensive Psychiatry Volume 51, Issue 2, March-April 2010, Pages 121-129
Is impulsivity a link between childhood abuse and suicide?
M. Dolores Braquehais, Maria A. Oquendo, Enrique Baca-García, Leo Sher
"Impulsivity could be one of the...
Addictive Behaviors. Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 295-372 (April 2010)
Social network effects in alcohol consumption among adolescents
Pages 337-342 Mir M. Ali, Debra S. Dwyer
Test, Punish, and Push Out: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth into the School to Prison Pipeline
http://www.advancementproject.org/
January 20, 2010
"Test, Punish, and Push Out" provides an...
The book is a collection of young offenders stories about their compulsory school experience, collated by interviewer and author Dr Alison Sutherland.
Review of Classroom to Prison Cell in the Social Policy Journal of New Zealand: Issue 33
Link...
Nine To Noon Monday, 01 February 2010 Feature guest - Jeremy Nurse Founder of the 180 Degrees Trust. The trust takes 12 - 17 year olds who've dropped out of school, many of whom have alcohol or drug addictions, and intensively mentors and supports...
