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Banned Books

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Is there a way to find out what books are banned in the United States? I want to make sure I’m not going to be taking any banned books into the classroom. Teacher Forums – Teacher Chat

Graduation/Testing Requirements for Sp. Ed. High School Students

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Hi. I taught special education in the middle school setting for 3 years, but lost my position due to huge staff reductions. I was recently offered a position in a high school for the coming school year, but I am quite nervous about it as I feel very uncertain about the laws/expectations/testing requirements etc… for [...]

Learning Resources LER6900 Time Tracker Programmable Electronic Timer

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Learning Resources LER6900 Time Tracker Programmable Electronic Timer List Price: .95 Time Tracker, Time Tracker Adapter. Keep students on track with programmable electronic timer. Set green, red and yellow lighted sections and six sounds to indicate time remaining. Keep students on track with programmable electronic timer. Set green, red and yellow lighted sections and six [...]

English Grammar for Students of French: The Study Guide for Those Learning French (English Grammar Series)

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

English Grammar for Students of French: The Study Guide for Those Learning French (English Grammar Series) List Price: .95 List Price: .95 Your Price: .00- Thousands of students have found this book the ideal way to master and upgrade their French grammar. Your Price: .00 – Learning English

Turning medicine inside out: It’s all about the data

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

(Mike Deal aka ZoneDancer/Flickr) From the ashes of the demise of Google Health may yet rise a health care information system that really works — for doctors and patients alike. And let’s not forget caregivers – those responsible for the health of their children or aging parents. They need all the help they can get. [...]

The iSpawn: The birds, the bees, and the zebrafish

Monday, July 25th, 2011

One of the characteristics that make zebrafish a fantastic model for research is that they spawn…a lot. A healthy female zebrafish can lay upwards of 1,000 eggs each week. By comparison, the mouse, another species widely used in research, may have a single 12-pup litter each month. Sometimes, though, that isn’t enough. A researcher screening [...]

Ectaco NTL-2S iTRAVL English-Spanish Talking 2-way Language Communicator & Dictionary Gray

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Ectaco NTL-2S iTRAVL English-Spanish Talking 2-way Language Communicator & Dictionary Gray List Price: 9.95 1,010,000 entry English-Spanish translating dictionary with voice synthesis. Audio Travel PhraseBook with speech recognition and real human pronunciation translates and speaks 14,000 travel-related words and phrases in both languages. Audio Travel PhraseBook includes the following topics: Basics, Traveling, Hotel, Local Transport, [...]

Class pics – small classroom

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

I started a blog where I am uploading pictures of my class as I am busy getting it ready for the school year. I am starting in a new school so I had to move ALL my stuff over. I am ALWAYS open to ideas as to how I can make the arrangement better in [...]

Brick Top Simple English Lesson 1: Nemesis

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

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Treatment abandonment in childhood cancer: Are we willing to face this challenge?

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

(Photo: The Advocacy Project/Flickr) Though the diagnosis is overwhelming for patients and families to receive, many childhood cancers have become “curable diseases.” At major U.S. centers like mine, the Dana Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center, research efforts now largely focus on survivorship, refining risk stratification, minimizing treatment toxicity and developing more effective salvage therapies upon relapse. [...]