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• A Case for Throwing Out the Old Way We Think About Teachers
• Massive Open Online Courses Revolutionizing Higher Education
• One in 20 youth has used steroids to bulk up: study

A Case for Throwing Out the Old Way We Think About Teachers Posted: 19 Nov 2012 03:52 PM PST Barnett Berry shows a picture of himself from 1979 to a group of Arkansas teachers.

Massive Open Online Courses Revolutionizing Higher Education Posted: 19 Nov 2012 12:30 PM PST Perhaps you've heard of Massive Online Open Courses, MOOCs. The first such course so named was available in 2008, but it wasn't until 2011 that both institutions and the public entered the arena that may well change higher learning, according to CampusExplorer.com . ...

One in 20 youth has used steroids to bulk up: study Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:20 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About five percent of middle and high school students have used anabolic steroids to put on muscle, according to a new study from Minnesota. In addition to steroid use, more than one-third of boys and one-fifth of girls in the study said they had used protein powder or shakes to gain muscle mass, and between five and 10 percent used non-steroid muscle-enhancing substances, such as creatine. Researchers said a more muscular body ideal in the media may be one factor driving teens to do anything possible to get toned, as well as pressure to perform in sports. ...

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