Cancer on campus: Over 150 students and staff at North Carolina university 'are diagnosed with host of tumors and disease' - as officials find lecture halls and classrooms teeming with toxic chemicals
More than 150 cancer cases have been linked to Poe Hall, a class building at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Reports found high levels of the cancer-causing cehmicals PCBs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Correction: Understanding classroom bullying climates: the role of student body composition, relationships, and teaching quality - Dietrich L, Cohen J.
The article "Understanding Classroom Bullying Climates: the Role of Student Body Composition, Relationships, and Teaching Quality" was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal on 16 December 2019 without open access. After pub... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 30, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Overcoming Isolation in the Online College Classroom
Many online colleges and universities are facing attrition issues as students struggle to feel a connection with peers and instructors in the classroom (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - March 28, 2024 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Education Source Type: news
A Brief But Spectacular take on harnessing AI in schools
Adrian Antao is a high school English teacher at KIPP NYC. Adrian has worked with educators, coders and designers at the nonprofit Playlab.ai to develop Project Toni, an AI tool to support his students with their writing revisions. While many are worried about using AI in the classroom, Adrian has…#adrianantao #kippnyc #adrian #playlabai #projecttoni (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
West Virginia opens the door to teaching intelligent design
In 2005, then–U.S. District Court Judge John Jones ruled that intelligent design (ID)—the idea that life is too complex to have evolved without nudging from supernatural forces—cannot be taught in public school biology courses because it is not a scientific theory. This month, the West Virginia legislature found a workaround, and passed a bill that doesn’t name ID but will nevertheless allow public school teachers there to discuss it in the classroom.
The bill, which the state’s governor is expected to sign before the end of the month, is the latest example of what evolution educator at the University of Au...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 18, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
The health context paradox in the relationship between victimization, classroom bullying attitudes, and adolescent depression: an analysis based on the hlm model - Li M, Gong H, Sun W, Ma P, Chen Y, Gao Y.
From the perspective of the health context paradox, this study examined the relationship between adolescent victimization and depression based on the diathesis-stress model and attribution theory using a nested model. A survey was conducted on 3743 Chinese... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Girls' experiences of cellphone porn use in South Africa and their accounts of sexual risk in the classroom - Mayeza E, Ngidi ND, Bhana D, Janak R.
Violence remains a persistent challenge in South African schools, prompting investigations into underlying risk factors and mitigation strategies. However, an under-explored aspect of this violence is the potential link between the consumption of Internet ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Florida cannot ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ issues in class
Florida education officials cannot ban teachers in public schools from talking about about sexual orientation and gender identity in their classrooms, after a settlement in a lawsuit against Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay law, which LGBTQ advocates have criticized as dangerous and homophobic.…#florida #lgbtq #rondesantis #conservatives #desantis (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
AI can transform education for the better
AS PUPILS AND students return to classrooms and lecture halls for the new year, it is striking to reflect on how little education has changed in recent decades. Laptops and interactive whiteboards hardly constitute disruption. Many parents bewildered by how their children shop or socialise would…#byjus #crunchbase #blackrock #byju #divyagokulnath #newyorkcity #danrosensweig #openai #kateedwards #pearson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Student-to-teacher victimization and its negative impact on teaching approaches: applying propensity score matching - Choi J, Faucher E, Newnam M, Han S.
The negative impact of student-to-teacher victimization on teachers' perceptions of the work environment and their well-being is supported by growing empirical literature. For instance, violence in the classroom can have a negative impact on teachers thems... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Venez à la rencontre de Marguerite Diarra. Son but est de former davantage de sage-femmes et d'am éliorer l'acc ès aux soins maternels au Mali.
Venez à la rencontre de Marguerite Diarra. Son but est de former davantage de sage-femmes et d'am éliorer l'acc ès aux soins maternels au Mali.
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Strategic communications managercbalesMarch 08, 2024March 08, 2024 12:00 PMPar une matin ée ensoleillée à l ' école Vicenta Maria de Ségou au Mali, Marguerite Diarra démontre la gestion active de la troisième phase de l’accouchement en utilisant un Mama-U, un simulateur obstétrique/gynécologique représentant l ' ut érus d ' une femme. Marguerite forme des sage-femmes qualifi ées prêtes à s ' occup...
Source: IntraHealth International - March 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
School District Fined Over Staff Working Amid Asbestos
An Iowa school district is facing thousands of dollars in fines for having employees work inside an asbestos-contaminated building. Newly released state records show the Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the North Linn Community School District $70,000. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources also fined the district an additional $6,000.
The records show the incident happened during renovations at a middle and high school complex in August 2022 near Coggon Iowa, about 30 miles north of Cedar Rapids. A worker found asbestos under the floor tile when preparing to install new carpeting. Instead of h...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - March 4, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Asbestos (general) Asbestos Exposure Companies Mesothelioma Source Type: news
Smartphones face bans in US schools
You can take their , but you'll never take their freedom. James Madison High School in Houston was locked down earlier this month after students "stormed out of their classrooms" to protest a new ban on cellphones in school, the said. The student body had been "had been in an uproar" over rules…#houston #flint #michigan #fears #cbsnews #democrats #republicans #tomcotton #timkaine #tedcruz (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hearts melt at confused school therapy cat wondering where kids are
A therapy cat has melted hearts on social media after her owner shared a video of her looking confused by a lack of students. Mochi, who works as a school therapy cat in a Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, is seen sitting outside a classroom door in a clip her owner, under the username…#dallas #fortworth #tiktok #petkeen #ptds #mochi #petofweek (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One Way to Reduce Child Obesity: Get Kids Moving More in Class
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 -- Regular standing and walking activities in the classroom can aid in the fight against childhood obesity, a new study shows.Children who took part in the Active Movement program experienced an 8% reduction in their... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - February 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
