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NASP Press Release - School Psychologists Welcome Focus on Diverse Learners, Positive School Climate in Administration's Blueprint for Reforms of ESEA
NASP participates in a U.S. Senate hearing on “Children and Disaster Recovery” on December 10, 2009
About School Psychology
Mental Health Resources
Press Releases
School Psychologists in the News
Children
and the Economy
Kids
Begin to Feel Stress of Economy, Fox News,
Houston,
TX, April 1, 2009
This was NASP’s first news piece to focus on the role
of school psychologists in supporting children affected by current status
of the economy and related issues including depression. NASP member, Robert
Conlon, from
Houston participated
in this interview.
Columbine
10-Year Anniversary
Post-Columbine
Programs Help Prevent Rampages,
USA
Today, April 13, 2009
NASP
members Shane Jimerson, Linda Kanan,
and Jim Larsen were interviewed and quoted for these pieces relating
to coverage of Columbine’s 10-Year anniversary. The Article also makes reference
to relevant NASP-related resources (left-side
box on webpage).
What
We Have Learned About School Shooters, 10 Years After Columbine, Education
Week Live Chat, April 20, 2009
NASP and
NEAT Team member Cathy Paine’s comments are included in an online chat focused
on the lessons learned from Columbine 10 years later.
The Most Useful Legacy of
Columbine,
Denver
Post, April 20, 2009
This Op-Ed piece was
jointly written with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
and bylined by NASP President Gene Cash and NASSP Executive Director Gerry Terozzi.
This article ran in the Denver
Post’s coverage on the 10th anniversary of the Columbine tragedy.
Letter to Oprah Winfrey
NASP
sent a letter to Oprah Winfrey signed by NASP President, Gene
Cash, thanking her for deciding not to run the show she had taped for the
Columbine anniversary. The episode was based on interviews with authors
of recently released books about the tragedy. Ms. Winfrey’s public statement
said that when she reviewed the tape, it focused too much on the shooters. Her
decision to pull the show demonstrates her understanding of the risks involved
in “memorializing” the perpetrators and her willingness to do the right thing.
School
Policy
Strip-Search
of Girl Tests Limit of School Policy, New York Times, March 23, 2009
School
Strip-Search Case Heads to Supreme Court, Education
Week, April 15, 2009
Strip
Search Review Tests Limits of School Drug Policy,
USA
Today, April 16, 2009
The above
three articles focus on the case of Safford (AZ)
Unified School District v. Redding, which was argued before the Supreme
Court on April 22, 2009. NASP is an amicus brief co-signer on behalf of
Redding
due to the extreme measure taken by a middle school to strip search this
13-year old student in search of prescription-strength Ibuprofen.
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