teen depression | teen depression
Jan.21.2011
I'm doing a mini-tour of schools six weeks from now, and am open to adding more high schools or colleges. Please pass this on to teachers, professors principals, etc. Thanks for helping me get the word out.
Where: metro Chicago, St. Louis, and possibly Milwaukee
When: Feb 28-Mar 4
What:...
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Jan.06.2011
Another kid shot up his high school in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday. More kids are quietly committing suicide.
It can be depressing. It should be a call for action. Not because it's a new problem, because it's an old problem, which we have failed to address: depression.
The frustrating part, but...
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Dec.04.2010
Matt Smith of ABC's affiliate WBAY in northern Wisconsin read my Slate XX Factor piece on the Marinette tragedy, and asked me to discuss it on-air.
We spoke yesterday afternoon by Skype. Matt did a really nice job, and you can watch the 2-minute segment or read the transcript. (The video segment...
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Dec.02.2010
I have a guest piece again today on Slate's XX Factor
Understanding Sam Hengel, the Gunman at Marinette High School
Did a hostage standoff actually take place in Wisconsin Monday night, when Marinette High School sophomore Sam Hengel held 24 students and a teacher for six hours? FBI doctrine...
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Nov.23.2010
I'm happy to be a guest poster today on Slate's excellent XX Factor blog, with Columbine's Lost Lesson.
(If you haven't read XX Factor, you're missing out. It's subtitled What women really think, and describes itself as "a conversation among Slate’s women writers and friends about politics,...
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Nov.18.2010
The Columbine Student Guide is now complete. It's online and free. (The Columbine Teacher's Guide and Columbine Online are in beta, coming soon.)
The idea came this spring, over weeks touring colleges and high schools, meeting thousands of students who had embraced the book. You guys really...
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Sep.08.2008
Here's the link for a TV interview I did this morning on WTAP in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The interview was in support of National Suicide Prevention Week.
http://www.wtap.com/daybreak/headlines/27988159.html
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