News tagged with teaching license

Should teachers be licensed on effectiveness or experience?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Michigan education officials are considering new standards for licensing teachers focusing more on effectiveness rather than years of educational and work experience. Are teachers ready?

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Clinical trial teaches binge eaters to toss away cravings

Of 190 million obese Americans, approximately 10-15 percent engage in harmful binge eating. During single sittings, these over-eaters consume large servings of high-caloric foods. Sufferers contend with weight gain and depression ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pellet guns and children

Last week an eighth-grader in Brownsville was shot and killed when he refused to stand down and lower his weapon.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 13

NY bill would require bachelor's degrees for RNs

(AP) -- New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor's degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Guidance materials issued for using medical recordings

(Medical Xpress) -- New advice and guidance on making and using clinical healthcare recordings for learning and teaching will be launched today. Clinical images, videos and other recordings are vital ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Future-Directed Therapy helps depression patients cultivate optimistic outlook

Patients with major depression do better by learning to create a more positive outlook about the future, rather than by focusing on negative thoughts about their past experiences, researchers at Cedars-Sinai say after developing ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Millions with low vision stay active by using special tools

As a pre-teen, Amber McMahon was a voracious reader. When she stopped curling up with her favorite books, her family chalked it up to adolescent distractions. When she asked to sit closer to the blackboard in school, her ...

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created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple fans reach for Jobs' devices to mourn him

(AP) -- He was a conjurer, a modern magician who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives. And as people gathered at Apple Stores from Sydney to San Francisco to mourn Steve ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

An oracle for object-oriented programmers

In the last 40 years, the major innovation in software engineering has been the development of what are called object-oriented programming languages. “Objects” are, effectively, repositories for ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Blackwater game aims for fun, not controversy

(AP) -- In the world of video games, realism reigns supreme, but the makers of a game based on the infamous private security firm Blackwater are intentionally steering clear of it.

Technology / Software

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Gaga's anti-bullying stance can help, says expert

Lady Gaga and other celebrities commenting on bullying have the chance to teach young people about the horrors of bullying abuse, says the director of the University at Buffalo's Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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