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• A Guide to the Conspiracy Theories Fuelling the Common Core Fight
• More Florida teens trying hookah
• As Schools Boost Access to EpiPens, Do Teachers Know How to Use Them?
• Teen at Center of the Maryville Rape Case Hospitalized After Attempted Suicide
• $4.5M requested for pre-K at Hawaii public schools
• 10 Colleges With the Most Older Students

A Guide to the Conspiracy Theories Fuelling the Common Core Fight Posted: 07 Jan 2014 09:38 AM PST So far only one Common Core conspiracy theory has panned out: conservative megadonors like the Koch brothers want to destroy the plan and eventually take down the Department of Education. As Politico reported on Tuesday, conservatives are funding advocacy groups that want to use anger over the national education standards to get rid of teacher tenure, promote voucher programs and push the government out of education policy. As it turns out, they have a lot of anger to work with. What exactly is Common Core and why are people upset over it? The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an education initiative that sets math and language arts-focused education standards for public schools nationwide.

More Florida teens trying hookah Posted: 07 Jan 2014 09:34 AM PST By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More and more Florida high school students are trying hookah - water pipes used for smoking tobacco, according to a new study. "Hookah smoking is associated with a host of smoking-related health problems including but not limited to cardiovascular disease, oral disease, cancer and decreased (lung) function," said Adrienne J. Heinz, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California. "Hookah and cigarette smoke contain many of the same toxins," she said. Heinz studies alcohol and drug use patterns and was not involved in the Florida study.

As Schools Boost Access to EpiPens, Do Teachers Know How to Use Them? Posted: 07 Jan 2014 08:25 AM PST Dr. Dave Stukus, a pediatric allergist at Nationwide Children's Hospital, contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Anyone with severe allergies knows that an epinephrine auto-injector can be the difference between life and death. With approximately two and a half million epinephrine auto-injectors (such as EpiPens and Auvi-Qs) in circulation, my colleagues and I at Nationwide Children's Hospital want to ensure that people know how to administer them appropriately — you could save a life. A new law signed by President Barack Obama on Nov. 13 last year provides states with financial incentives to pass laws that allow schools to stock epinephrine, and to treat children who do not have a prescription for the drug.

Teen at Center of the Maryville Rape Case Hospitalized After Attempted Suicide Posted: 07 Jan 2014 08:07 AM PST Daisy Coleman, the teenager who was run out of her town after accusing two fellow high school students of rape, is in a Kansas City hospital on Tuesday after an apparent suicide attempt. Her mother, Melinda Coleman, told Fox 4 that Daisy attended a party for about an hour on Saturday, after which she faced an immediate onslaught of cyberbullying. Melinda Coleman also discussed the attempt on her Facebook page, asking the online group Anonymous to do something to stop the online abuse her daughter faces. According to Coleman and her mother, Daisy's classmates — along with some of their parents — started harassing the teenager on and offline after she accused two popular Maryville high school seniors of raping her and her best friend.

$4.5M requested for pre-K at Hawaii public schools Posted: 07 Jan 2014 07:32 AM PST A top priority for the governor is a $4.5 million funding request for 32 preschool classrooms at 30 public schools in underserved or rural Hawaii communities. Executive Office on Early Learning Director ...

10 Colleges With the Most Older Students Posted: 07 Jan 2014 07:18 AM PST The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Unlike their younger peers, these students tend to be more doubtful than traditional students about going to school and less likely to have concrete plans in terms of what to study, according to a November report by Public Agenda. While overall enrollment of students 25 and older continues to grow, they are still the minority on most college campuses. On average, students age 25 and older accounted for roughly 15 percent of all degree-seeking undergraduate students during fall 2012, according to enrollment data reported by 1,124 ranked schools in 2013 to U.S. News in an annual survey.

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