Peter on March 30th, 2009

I’m assembling articles on the predominant models of health education for a literature base.   Here’s a continuing list: National Public Radio. (2004, February 24). Sex education in America. Retrieved April 30, 2009, from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1622610 The debate over whether to have sex education in American schools is over. A new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, [...]

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Peter on March 24th, 2009

An interesting U.S. Census article in today’s Post: At a forum last week sponsored by the Brookings Institution, census officials and other experts also warned that increases in foreclosure and joblessness would make it harder to accurately count the population during the 2010 census because more Americans are moving out of their homes and into [...]

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Peter on March 22nd, 2009

This was an intense week: a one-day to DC for the CAEAR ReThink, a full day training at the Florida School of Addiction Studies, and a presentation to translators/interpreters working with police and for the court system, in addition to a lot of meetings and tasks in between.   I also decided the time was [...]

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Peter on March 15th, 2009

I passed the Qualifying Exam!  The dissertation work can commence, and the proposal defense will be next.  This is great!   In other school news, I saw this article in the NY Times this morning: Education officials classify some 5.1 million students in the United States — 1 in 10 of all those enrolled in [...]

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Peter on March 10th, 2009

Today I attended a Fulbright Scholar Program presentation, which was very informative.  Former USF President and current Exec. Director Betty Castor was there, in addition to past Fulbright recipients.  I’ll be taking a look at this opportunity very closely in the coming year.

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Peter on March 4th, 2009

Today I attended a presentation on DOE IES grants at the Research & Training Center for Children’s Mental Health Conference, which was extremely helpful.   The IES was created by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 and is comprised of 4 centers: National Center for Education Research (NCER)  National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)  National [...]

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