I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.
If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends,...
The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.
Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against lab...
Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.
Some girls, of course, can be both popular and nice. But niceness involves treating others as equals […]
Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.
In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a crowd contagion.
Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or...
The next night, Jake again tried to party with his high school friends. Arjun again drank until he barfed. One of the girls drank herself out of her mind; she continually told anyone within earshot th...
In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.
I love the free entertainment that patients provide. People say and do the most ridiculous things, and I’ve got a front row seat to the absurdity. —A Colorado travel nurse
Nobody’s listening to me, he thought, story of my life.
Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.
Someone else's success is not your failure.
It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter ho...
Another potential reason for BGLO's better treatment of women is that at predominately whites colleges, black fraternity members feel more accountable. Black fraternity men, and many black students, c...
And when they are out in public, we are secretly looking at people's arms to determine where we would start an IV, an Arizona nurse said. Sometimes if I'm out with a group of nurses, we're like, 'Wow,...
When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency...
A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient...
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