Perhaps more troubling is that the extra homework load we subject our students to and the adolescent academic stress associated with it not only puts a damper on the after-school fun factor, but may also hurt their intellectual development.

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The Project SERV grant will help fund grief support groups for siblings who lost classmates, skill-based counseling for students suffering posttraumatic stress, security guards, an academic-booster summer session for students, and many other services.

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My own opinion, and I stress that this is personal opinion, not something the result of deep academic study, is that the Portuguese economy is in the grips of the professional upper middle classes.

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