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Common Goal Systems is pleased to announce the continued growth of SchoolInsight in Oklahoma. SchoolInsight is a cloud-based student information system (SIS) that meets the specific needs of Oklahoma school districts, including interoperability with "The Wave," the state longitudinal data system. After entering the state in 2011, 100% of beta customers renewed their subscriptions, the company hired a local account representative, and the customer base expanded to a dozen school...
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a genetic, neurobiological disorder that results in challenges with attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity that affects more than 13 million Americans, along with their families, friends and colleagues. The ADHD Awareness Coalition partnered with TotallyADD.com to conduct the first-ever Totally ADD & Me video contest seeking honest, funny, and meaningful videos from people living...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First Look West (FLoW), www.flow.caltech.edu the largest clean energy business challenge for students in the West, announces its second annual competition offering more than $100,000 in prize money as well as start up packages for launching new companies. FLoW also seeks cleantech experts as mentors and corporate partners to support this exciting program. Led by the California Institute of Technology, FLoW is a consortium of...
By the time our children reach kindergarten their learning and developmental patterns are already taking shape, as is a trajectory for their future health. Now, for the first time, scientists have amassed a large collection of research that looks "under the skin", to examine how and why experiences interact with biology starting before birth to affect a life course. Biological Embedding of Early Social Adversity: From Fruit Flies to Kindergartners, a special volume published in the...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- If you're sick of seeing young people turn to crime, vandalism and substance abuse instead of developing their potential and contributing to society because no one is giving them the guidance and direction all youths need and deserve, you can become empowered to step up and help. Mentor or Die: The Ultimate Blueprint to Developing a Mentoring Mindset by Kevin Hall can educate and motivate you to become a real leader in your...
Hate the Lakers? Do the Celtics make you want to hurl? Whether you like someone can affect how your brain processes their actions, according to new research from the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. Most of the time, watching someone else move causes a 'mirroring' effect – that is, the parts of our brains responsible for motor skills are activated by watching someone else in action. But a study by USC researchers appearing Oct. 5 in PLOS ONE shows that whether or not you like...
NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Impact Creativity, an unprecedented nationwide campaign to raise $5 million over three years to fund theatre education, enrich our nation's youth through drama and prepare the American creative workforce of tomorrow, has now impacted more than eight million taxi riders across the country. Back in June, the National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) propelled its groundbreaking Impact Creativity initiative to new heights when it partnered with...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online How many times have you driven a route that you were familiar with, made it safely to your destination, and then realized that you can’t recall any of the specifics of your journey? Maybe you were focusing on the music on the radio or the stress of the day. Perhaps in our increasingly digital existence, you were paying attention to incoming texts or listening to the turn-by-turn directions of your GPS unit. This psychological...
Research: Clinicians' gut feeling about serious infections in children: Observational study Doctors who experience a gut feeling about serious illness when treating a child in primary care should take action upon this feeling and not ignore it, a study published today on bmj.com suggests. Serious infection can easily be missed in young children and making a diagnosis has been described as "like finding a needle in a haystack". A clinician's intuitive feeling that something is wrong,...
Teachers are on a constant quest to hunt down ways in which they can not only simplify their own curriculum, but also ways in which they help students grasp the many principles of learning they need in order to succeed once they finish school and enter into today's competitive work environment. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 24, 2012 San Francisco, CA based MindMaple Inc, the creators of the popular mind mapping software MindMaple Lite and MindMaple Pro, have announced the...
