Posted on October 24th, 2011 by tmchale
Most students enrolled in high schools nationwide give into the temptation to cheat to boost exam scores. According to surveys in the U.S News and World Report, 75% of college students admitted to cheating during high school, and of those people, 95% said that they were never caught. Unfortunately, the rise in cheating among high school students over the last decade is due to changes in the definition of “academic success.”
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Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by tmchale
The New Jersey Teen Safe Driving Coalition will be hosting its first statewide Teen Safe Driving Summit, GDL4U…Good Driving for Life, July 15 at Rutgers University’s (Busch Student Center) in Piscataway.
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Posted on November 23rd, 2010 by tmchale
We can host your online school newspaper if you are a GSSPA member and use WordPress. We can even offer you a custom theme designed for school newspapers that has a slideshow of top stories, a featured content section, top headlines, video posting, and social media updates. Your website address will be a subdirectory of [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2010 by tmchale
What did you take away from Fall Press Day 2010? Please reflect on what you learned or what you found most valuable by leaving a comment on this post. Just click on the comment link at the bottom of this post. On the next page scroll down, fill in your first name, last initial, and [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2010 by tmchale
As a new school year begins, the Student Center is preparing to connect students, teachers, advisers, and professionals in new and exciting ways. Our vision is to create an online community committed to supporting student journalists and furthering student press rights. This is a site where students can pose questions and ideas to one another along with [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2009 by tmchale
My Journalism 1 class completed a project in which they interviewed school personnel and other experts on press rights through video recording and Skype (Unfortunately the Skype videos were not useable). The class edited down the videos to what you see here. They also created a wiki which contains full transcripts of videos, news and opinions, and [...]
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Posted on May 24th, 2009 by tmchale
By Anna Kowalczyk, University of Maryland Facebook is no longer solely for making friends and sharing bumper stickers. As journalism evolves, journalists need to move beyond the pen and paper and begin utilizing tools available through the internet. Facebook is often a good place to start. As a writer and public relations intern for College [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2009 by tmchale
From Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer Michael Vitez Greetings students! Thomas McHale, an English teacher at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, who is passionate about good writing, has asked me to provide five tips for feature writing. I’ve been a feature writer most of my professional life, and these following tips have served me well. I hope [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2009 by tmchale
By Frank LoMonte, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center Forty years ago, the Supreme Court reaffirmed in the Tinker case that students are “persons” entitled to the protection of the First Amendment, and that they do not “shed their rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” What John Tinker, [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by tmchale
Do students have the right to turn down a drug and alcohol urine or swab test while they are on school property or at a school function or event? It seems that there are many different views and opinions on this, but what is the correct answer? Many questions are left unanswered: Why the need [...]
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