They have teachers screening students for reading difficulties and following up with an intervention program.
Now some schools are trying to find a way to screen students for better social skills.
A CNN news alert flashed across the screen: Students at an elementary school in Connecticut had been shot.
Many mental health professionals are urging the school system to screen students to better identify those traumatized by Sept. 11, and to develop a program to meet the needs demonstrated in the study.
Over the last six years, prodded by federal requirements to publish test results, teachers' colleges have begun screening students before or soon after admission for the ability to pass state certification exams.
Psychologists who specialize in trauma want the Board of Education to screen students and find those with emotional problems -- especially those suffering in silence, crying themselves to sleep, like Kristen did, or having nightmares or getting psychosomatic aches and pains.
And they want it to be exempt from the board's policy that requires schools that screen students to admit 16percentt from the highest-scoring tier on standardized tests, 16percentt from the bottom and the rest from the middle.
Rather than interviewing lots of candidates, companies increasingly screen students to identify, and then contact, the ones who seem most employable, says Cliff Dank, the head of Elm Talent, a recruitment agency.
Of the top 50, 37 have selective admissions or are magnet schools, meaning they screen students using a combination of entrance exam scores, grade-point average, state test results and assessments of their writing samples.
— CALVIN YANG Japan considers using Toefl to screen students The governing party is considering using the Test of English as a Foreign Language, commonly known as Toefl, as a way to screen applicants at universities across Japan, according to the Japanese new media.
