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Class Size

The Rising Trend in Private Education: Teeny, Tiny Schools

Read in The Wall Street Journal

Families reacting to an influx of voucher funds and postpandemic woes are increasingly choosing so-called microschools...

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Content Training

How ancient Egyptian cosmetics influenced our beauty rituals

Read in CNN Style

The mysteries of the ancient Egyptians are vast, but their beauty tricks are no secret. Makeup might seem like a modern phenomenon -- one that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry -- but cosmetics were equally important to daily life in the ancient world. From the earliest era of the Egyptian empire, men and women from all social classes liberally applied eyeliner, eyeshadow, lipstick and rouge.

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Homeopathic Drugs

FDA ANNOUNCES NEW ENFORCEMENT APPROACH TO DRUGS LABELED AS HOMEOPATHIC

Read on Registrar Corp

Once small and specialized, homeopathic drugs now comprise a nearly $3 billion industry. Following an increase in reported health concerns stemming from these products and a flurry of unsubstantiated health claims surrounding the industry, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking new measures to curb the widespread distribution of potentially harmful drugs labeled as homeopathic.

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Management Skills in the Classroom

What leaders get wrong about emotional intelligence (and 3 ways to improve it)

Read in Fast Company

We are living in an era of emotional intelligence. Since the concept’s inception in the 1990s , it has become a sought-after skill among managers today. Emotional intelligence is also a crucial part of leadership. Organizations often succeed because they have emotionally intelligent leaders who can create work environments that enhance employee EQ (“emotional quotient,” or how emotional intelligence is measured). According to one study, restaurants with emotionally intelligent managers....

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Burn Treatment

Novel approach leads to potential sepsis prevention in burn patients

Read in SCIENMAG

Study demonstrates possibility of treating antibiotic-resistant pseudomonas aeruginosaCredit: TTUHSC Immediately following severe burns, bacteria reach the wound from different sources, including the patient's skin, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tracts and health care-related human contact. Within the wound, bacteria multiply, establish an infection and move from the infected burn wound into the bloodstream, causing serious complications like...

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Learning Style

The Science Behind Procrastination and How You'll Beat It

Read in Entrepreneur

Don't delay reading -- here is some of the best advice written on the subject of procrastinating. I had every intention to crank this article out immediately following my morning routine. Already had the material put together in an outline, and I’d put it in my calendar to-do-list. I kept dragging my feet on writing the piece all morning. Even worse, while I’m usually a pro at blocking out distractions, I was more than willing to get a fantastic amount of work done quickly. What’s going on here?

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Communication Skills

Emotions Like Love, Anger, and Anxiety May Differ Between Cultures

Read in Newsweek

December 19, 2019 While certain human emotions—like anger and fear—are universal, the meanings of the words used to express them vary significantly from culture to culture, according to researchers. To explore whether the concept of a word like "love" is the same in different tongues, for instance Turkish and English, an international team of researchers examined a sample of 2,474 languages. They looked for examples of what is known as colexification, where a word has more than one meaning in a

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Dealing with Conflict

How to Stop People from Taking Sides Amid Conflict in Your Office

Read in Inc.

Differences of opinion are okay. Total rifts that tank productivity and relationships are not.

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Understanding Students Motivation and Skill Level

If you want to improve diversity, stop asking me to “meet you where you are”

Read in Fast Company

Imagine this: A friend calls you in the middle of the night and asks you to pick them up. Your first question is likely to be, “Where are you?” If your friend is in Istanbul—and you are in New York—your answer will probably be a no. It seems like a strange request, right? Yet this is a request that marginalized people get all the time. There is an expectation that they have to “meet” the other person depending on their understanding of that person’s experiences...

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Depression

Two-thirds of Parents say Barriers like Mood Swings Make it Hard to Spot Depression in their Kids

Newsweek

Two thirds of parents in the U.S. say they feel there are barriers to them recognizing their child has depression, according to a survey. Of the nationally representative sample of 819 parents, who lived with a child aged between 0-18 years old, 40 percent said they might find it hard to tell normal changes in moods from symptoms of the mental illness. 30 percent said children were good hiding their feelings.

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Storing and Organizing Records

How to share Notes app folders on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Read in 9to5Mac

A lesser-known but very useful feature included with iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina is improved sharing in the Notes app. Follow along for how to share Notes app folders on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Folder sharing for iCloud Drive in the Files app was originally planned for the launch of iOS 13, but...

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Photonics Encyclopedia

The RP Photonics Encyclopedia

...is a large scientifically founded encyclopedia on optics and photonics, which serves both scientific researchers and industrial professionals worldwide.

In 2008, the encyclopedia appeared as a two-volume book with 555 articles. Since then, the online version has been expanded substantially to cover more areas outside laser technology. It is now an optics and photonics encyclopedia.

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