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• NIH Awards More than 50 Grants to Boost Search for Causes, Improve Treatments for Autism

  NIH Awards More than 50 Grants to Boost Search for Causes, Improve Treatments for Autism Recovery Act Funds Support Strategic Goals for Autism Research The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than 50 autism research grants, totaling more than [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:33am EST
  by John Young

• Groupthink.

  “Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. Individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking are lost in the pursuit of group cohesiveness, as are the advantages of reasonable balance in choice and thought [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:26am EST
  by John Young

• Open Meetings.

  § 10004. Open meetings. (a) Every meeting of all public bodies shall be open to the public except those closed pursuant to subsections (b), (c), (d) and (h) of this section. (b) A public body may call for an executive session closed to the public pursuant to subsections (c) and [...][...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:08am EST
  by John Young

• 8 Reasons to not link student testing data to teacher evaluations…..

  This is tricky stuff indeed…. A Policy Brief on linking testing to teacher evaluations. As you know, one of the big-ticket items on the Obama agenda is a proposal to evaluate teachers by looking at changes in their students’ test scores. As I explain in my forthcoming book, this idea comes [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:36am EST
  by John Young

• We had an executive session tonight.

  This is what I learned: Posted in Uncategorized [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:05am EST
  by John Young