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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of June 10, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Junk Food Bans Help Schoolkids Avoid Unhealthy Snacks: Study HealthDay: Elementary schools are less likely to sell unhealthy snack foods and drinks if school districts or states have rules that limit the sale of such products, a new study finds. However, more than three-quarters of public elementary schools in the United [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2773&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City Connects is hiring!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Connects is hiring a Program Manager for our work in Boston Catholic schools. Read the full job description here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2767&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Support All Students to Close the Achievement Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on ASCD&#8216;s &#8220;The Whole Child&#8221; blog, City Connects Executive Director Mary Walsh has a guest blog post about how schools can counter the impact of poverty on students. In &#8220;Support All Students to Close the Achievement Gap,&#8221; she writes: How can schools, with their limited resources, address these barriers to learning? Traditionally, the approach [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2757&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of June 3, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Is the USA finally kicking its sugar habit? USA Today: n a nation obsessed with weight loss and healthier eating habits, children are eating far fewer sugary sweets than they did 15 years ago, according to data crunched exclusively for USA TODAY by the research specialist NPD Group. The numbers are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2753&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One in five schools considered high-poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ “The Condition of Education 2013” report, released in May, shows that one in five schools was considered high poverty in 2011, an increase from one in eight in 2000. More than 16 million children live in poverty in the U.S. At City Connects, we continue [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2744&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of May 27, 2013</title>
		<link>http://cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/school-health-wellness-news-roundup-week-of-may-27-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 12:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>City Connects</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Teen Pregnancy Rate at Its Lowest, Again, CDC Says EdWeek Rules for Engagement blog: The teen pregnancy rate is at a record low, again, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. And the steady declines from 2007 to 2011 mark the most longest period in recent history for which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2740&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of May 20, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: The Health Toll of Immigration NYTimes: A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2735&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The connection between students&#8217; health &amp; poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research shows that out-0f-school factors (like hunger or homelessness) contribute to two-thirds of the achievement gap, with the other third being attributable quality of instruction and curriculum. One in five children in the US lives below the federal poverty level; poverty is one of the most pervasive of these factors and it impacts children across [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2721&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excellence in School Wellness Awards to 4 City Connects Boston Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Boston Public Schools (BPS) bestowed Excellence in School Wellness Awards to 13 schools, four of which were City Connects schools. Congratulations to the Edison K-8, JFK Elementary, Quincy Elementary, and Trotter Elementary schools, whose innovations promoting student health and wellness were commended at the Sixth Annual BPS Health and Wellness Summit! &#8220;Collectively, these [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2700&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Health &amp; Wellness News Roundup: Week of May 13, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s news: Overprotected children &#8216;more likely to be bullied&#8217; BBC: Children who have overprotective parents are more likely to be bullied by their peers, research suggests. A review of 70 studies looking at 200,000 children suggests parents who &#8220;buffer&#8221; children from negative experiences make them more vulnerable. But children who have harsh or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cityconnectsblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13456139&#038;post=2696&#038;subd=cityconnectsblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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