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Season Of Caring: Communities in Schools
Communities In Schools is the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization by Tracey McCain High Point, NC – A growing number of students make it to high school without ever learning how to read. Educators say students typically drop out to hide their illiteracy. A Triad…
Author: digtriad.com
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New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories. In evolutionary terms, the brain’s ability to remember a fear or trauma response has been crucial to our long term survival.…
Author: The University of Queensland
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Cone shell toxin offers new hope for chronic pain sufferers
Original Source Better chronic pain relief could be possible in the future, according to research announced today by scientists at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute. Neuropathic and chronic pain is typically caused by injury to the nerves, resulting in uncontrolled activation of pain pathways, and affects…
Author: University of Queensland
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Bangor man given Alzheimer's study grant
A QUEEN’S academic from Bangor has been awarded £228,000 to further his research into how Alzheimer’s disease progresses. Dr Stephen Todd, who works in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Queen’s, has been announced as the only Beeson Ireland 2008 scholar after a transatlantic panel…
Author: The Community Telegraph
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U.S. Aid Urged for Education's Entrepreneurs
by Erik W. Robelen Washington With the presidential candidates both underscoring their support for entrepreneurial initiatives in education, policy experts are advancing ideas for helping such efforts flourish. In their Oct. 15 debate at Hofstra University, both Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Barack Obama…
Author: Education Week
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An immigrant's ID in the high court
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided one million USD to fund three projects aimed at helping the disabled in Da Nang to access health services and acquire essential work skills in order to successfully seek jobs. The US ambassador to Vietnam…
Author: Los Angeles Times
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South Africa to boost spending on health
by CLARE NULLIS South Africa will boost spending on education, health and infrastructure projects even though the global economic turmoil is expected to cut growth rates, its finance minister said Tuesday. Trevor Manuel argued that the South African economy will be shielded from the…
Author: Associated Press Worldstream
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Planning to leave the world of work
by CLARE NULLIS South Africa will boost spending on education, health and infrastructure projects even though the global economic turmoil is expected to cut growth rates, its finance minister said Tuesday. Trevor Manuel argued that the South African economy will be shielded from the…
Author: The Irish Times
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Budget cuts put rights at risk, says Amnesty
by OLIVIA KELLY THE DECISION to cut funding for two key human rights organisations in last week’s budget could spell their demise, executive director of Amnesty International Ireland Colm O’Gorman has said. The Government’s decision not to proceed with plans to merge the Equality Authority…
Author: Irish Times
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Report Cites Chronic Absenteeism in City Schools
by JENNIFER MEDINA More than 90,000 of New York City’s elementary school students – roughly 20 percent – missed at least a month of classes during the last school year, with attendance problems most acute in central Brooklyn, Harlem and the South Bronx, according to…
Author: The New York Times
