A review of 30 years of life-threatening asthma cases in a San Antonio intensive care unit found that annual ICU admissions for the condition have dropped 74 percent. The study, by UT Medicine San Antonio physicians who reviewed cases at University Hospital between 1980 and 2010, also showed...
The Heartland Institute is tonight's tool time for putting out insane ads attacking the theory of climate change. The Heartland Institute is a deep pocketed conservative organization that counts Koch industries, Phillip Morris and Microsoft among its well-heeled donors. The Institute is funding...
Brad Seng, an anti-abortion activist who teaches abstinence-only education in Colorado public schools, has an interesting way of engaging his students: backwash. He asks them to chew a mouthful of food, spit it into a cup of water, and offer it to other students. When students predictably refuse...
Intel's Classmate Convertibles have been a huge success: 7 million of these PCs are scattered across the globe in classrooms in more than 70 countries. Now Intel is introducing a new product to the Learning Series; a cheap, versatile, tough, education tablet. More »
...regular and irregular past tens? A bilingual education teacher integrates the introduction and reinforcement of regular and irregular past tense English verbs with a discussion of family activities over the previous weekend. The strategy is characteristic of which of the following approaches...
Public scrutiny and the threat of government regulation are leading to a decline in industry-sponsored funding of accredited continuing medical education (CME) for physicians, and this decline represents an opportunity to make CME more relevant, cost-effective and less open to bias, wrote a...
youth can be too young for sex? Youths can be 16 and younger? If sex is something that should be done when someone "feels"!they are ready, isn't that a broad scale. Why when people think of say 2 preteen minors having sex, people say it shouldn't be done? Why not, if they are practicing safe sex...
It is no longer the case that science teachers and concerned parents only need to worry about creationists invading US classrooms, via personal intrusion (by parents, students, or creationist teachers) or by legislation or regulation. Increasingly climate change denialism is being shoved into...
Here is a press release that will be distributed shortly:
NCSE TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL A new initiative in the struggle for quality science education
OAKLAND, CA January 16, 2012
Science education is under attack--again.
This time it's under attack by climate change deniers...
Since they were pre-teens, Kathrine McKay and Kathryn Lito had aspirations of pursuing a nursing career. So when they applied to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Nursing, they decided to take an...
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), announced the introduction of a new education campaign designed to help answer parents' questions about immunization and to offer health-care professionals a reference tool to supplement their discussions about...
Teachers teach facts instead of concepts. Teachers teach from the textbooks and barely understand what is in the book anyway. There is not enough hands-on learning. All teachers really do anyway is to show videos most of the time. What should really happen is that a teacher should learn how to...
Heidi Kaeslin, a special education teacher from Lincoln High School in Stockton, California is on paid leave for potential ethics violations after school officials discovered that she had been running a cadre of porn site on a school-issued laptop. More »
Hello, I have a presentation in class about a topic of interest in Special Education. I have to talk about a topic of interest but I've been surfing the web for the last couple of hours & everything is too general. Do you guys know about a specific topic that I could talk about?
Thank you!
I know if I take Driver's Ed in school, it'll drop my insurance rates and let me go straight to the DMV to get my license without taking the driving test.
If I took it on Florida Virtual School, would I still have lower insurance rates and not have to take my driving test?
PLEASE HELP. I've...
I want to find out what your fellow students, parents, teachers, school administrators, and community members think about physical education and nutrition in US schools. This survey is quick and easy to get filled out...