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Business news (Suburban Journals)
LAW The Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois has added Belleville-based Mathis, Marifian, Richter and Grandy to its list of members. Representatives from the firm will join other leaders in the business, industry, labor, education and government sectors that work together to encourage business investment and development in southwestern Illinois.
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On the Boards (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Foreign Policy Research Institute, a nonprofit education and foreign policy organization, has elected Dov S. Zakheim vice chairman of its board. Zakheim is vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va., and was undersecretary of defense and
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Community Calendar (Skokie Review)
Based upon space availability, The Review prints calendar announcements and items for columns, including campus news, newsmakers and others for local organizations and individuals. The deadline is 14 days before the desired publication date, however there is no guarantee for publication.
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Greenberg Traurig Announces 2010 Public Interest Fellows (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, in alliance with Equal Justice Works, has named its 2010 Fellows. Nine individuals will receive funding though the Greenberg Traurig Fellowship Foundation to provide pro bono legal services to community programs. The public interest law fellowships begin in September and run for two years. The combined classes of 2009 and 2010 will consist of 19 ...
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West Carroll Spelling Bee Winners (The Prairie Advocate)
The annual Spelling Bee at West Carroll Intermediate School was held on Wednesday, January 27, in the Media Center. Sixteen students who had been previous winners in classroom spelling bees were competing that day. Fifth grade teacher Beth Diener acted as pronouncer.
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Court ruling in Riverside case assists in advocacy for special-needs students (The Press-Enterprise)
A recent court decision in a Riverside County case says special-education teachers have the same standing to sue a school district as the special-needs students they serve. The ruling is reminiscent of the access to courts that civil rights workers gained during the 1960s -- the right to take action on behalf of others, even if the workers themselves were not targets of discrimination, one ...
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EP Global Communications, Inc. Welcomes Stephen DeFelice, MD, to Advisory Board (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
EP Global Communications, Inc. , , , , the parent company of Exceptional Parent magazine, is proud to announce that Stephen L. DeFelice, MD, has joined the EPGL Advisory Board. Dr. DeFelice is one of the world's leading authorities on nutraceutical products and is credited for introducing the term "nutraceutical."Â
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Letters to the editor: Hoffman can defeat Kirk in fall (Glenview Announcements)
There is a primary election coming up on Feb. 2, and democrats need to be very concerned about who we will nominate to run for Barack Obama's old Senate seat for two very important reasons.
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Letters to the editor: More talk on New Trier (Wilmette Life)
What is wrong with this picture?
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BRIEFCASE: Boulder, Broomfield, Weld businesspeople in the news (Boulder Daily Camera)
For 50 years of service toward the transportation industry, Harley Keeter Jr. received the Golden Achievement Award from the American Truck Historical Society.
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| NATIONAL NEWS ON READING AND MATH |
Audit: school district literacy programs on track (Oswego Ledger-Sentinel)
Audit results of a literacy program for grades K-2 in the Oswego School District were presented to school board members last month.
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Schooling in sync; Students work together in reading groups. Teachers work together to identify what students need ... (The Bulletin)
There was a time when, at the start of each day, teachers could enter their classrooms, close their doors, and spend the day teaching with their own rules and their own schedules.Those days are over.A new academic system in place at 10 elementary schools seeks to create schoolwide schedules, rules and curricula that bring students and teachers in each grade together more regularly with the ...
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HILLSBOROUGH: HEF grants launch class programs, school upgrades (Hillsborough Beacon)
The Hillsborough Education Foundation awarded five grants totaling $6,926.55 for school programs this year.
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Tobi Tobias on Dance et al. (Arts Journal)
On Christmas morning last year, I walked the reservoir track in New York's Central Park, since the gym was, naturally, closed for you-know-who's birthday. Hundreds of people, most of them armed with cameras, were strolling around the loop in the delicious sunshine. Few of them were speaking English.
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HIGHER EDUCATION: Balanced world view (The New Straits Times)
International Islamic University of Malaysia’s alumni association members abroad are creating change in government, business and education, reports NURJEHAN MOHAMED.
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Special report: Food for thought (Ottawa Citizen)
Insect and rodent infestations. Undercooked meat. Sloppy dish-washing. Employees who don't clean their hands properly. Those are among the food safety hazards discovered this past year by City of Ottawa health inspectors who check the conditions at restaurants, cafeterias, pizza shops and even hot-dog wagons.
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STAAR test to replace TAKS for student assessment (The Carrollton Leader)
The Texas Education Agency announced Tuesday the new standard in student assessment testing. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) will be replaced by the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.
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STAAR test to replace TAKS for student assessment (The Colony Courier-Leader)
The Texas Education Agency announced last week the new standard in student assessment testing. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) will be replaced by the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STARR) beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.
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STAAR test to replace TAKS for student assessment (Flower Mound Leader)
The Texas Education Agency announced Tuesday the new standard in student assessment testing.
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Teach how to think, not take tests (The Age)
Victorian teachers are being directed to teach children strategies for taking the literacy and numeracy tests (The Age, 5/2).
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| National News on Autism |
Older Moms May Mean Higher Autism Risk (ABC News)
A similar link between parental age and autism was not seen among older fathers. Autism - Autism spectrum - Health - Mental Health - Disorders
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Age of mother affects child's autism risk: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Being an older mother significantly increases the risk of having a child with autism, but being an older father only increases the risk when the mother is under the age of 30, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Older mothers' kids have higher autism risk, study finds (CNN)
A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there's a link between autism and the mother's age at conception.
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Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers (AP via Yahoo! News)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
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UC Davis study suggests autism risk grows with mother's advancing age (The Sacramento Bee)
UC Davis researchers say that a 40-year-old woman's risk of having a child with autism is 50 percent greater than a woman between of 25 and 29 years old.
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Autism Risk Rises With Mother's Age (WebMD)
Regardless of the father's age, a child's risk of autism rises with the age of the child's mother. Moms 40 and older are 77% more likely to have a child with autism, compared to mothers under age 25.
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Study confirms link between maternal age and autism (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said Monday in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.
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Autism Risks Detailed in Children of Older Mothers (Fox News)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested
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Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers (San Francisco Chronicle)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found. "Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk...
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Autism risk in kids rises with mom’s age (MSNBC)
A woman's chances of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
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| HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS |
Older Moms May Mean Higher Autism Risk (ABC News)
A similar link between parental age and autism was not seen among older fathers. Autism - Autism spectrum - Health - Mental Health - Disorders
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Age of mother affects child's autism risk: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Being an older mother significantly increases the risk of having a child with autism, but being an older father only increases the risk when the mother is under the age of 30, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Older mothers' kids have higher autism risk, study finds (CNN)
A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there's a link between autism and the mother's age at conception.
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Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers (AP via Yahoo! News)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
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UC Davis study suggests autism risk grows with mother's advancing age (The Sacramento Bee)
UC Davis researchers say that a 40-year-old woman's risk of having a child with autism is 50 percent greater than a woman between of 25 and 29 years old.
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Autism Risk Rises With Mother's Age (WebMD)
Regardless of the father's age, a child's risk of autism rises with the age of the child's mother. Moms 40 and older are 77% more likely to have a child with autism, compared to mothers under age 25.
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Study confirms link between maternal age and autism (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said Monday in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.
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Autism Risks Detailed in Children of Older Mothers (Fox News)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested
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Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers (San Francisco Chronicle)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found. "Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk...
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Autism risk in kids rises with mom’s age (MSNBC)
A woman's chances of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
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