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The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic revealed how essential public health workers are to the world. Not only did they teach people how to prevent the spread of coronavirus, but they contributed to emergency health policies aimed at keeping people safe.
With a bachelor’s degree in public health, you can pursue a career that helps improve people’s health and well-being—without directly treating their ailments.
This guide explores what to expect from a BS degree in public health, including admission…
A few years ago, the Head of Math at my school confided in me that he was trying to “sneak” explicit instructions into his department. The school was full of romantic ideas about learning and childhood, and anything “teacher led” was seen as top-down, coercive, antiquated, or just plain boring. But my Head of Math friend had observed too many lessons in which the students were given large “authentic” problems and then blamed for not being spongey enough to absorb the math. Sensing he’d be ignored if he used the words “explicit” or “direct” with his teachers, he opted for…
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and Frank Trinity, JD, AAMC chief legal officer, issued the following statement on the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard:
“We are deeply disappointed with the US Supreme Court’s decision to dismantle its longstanding precedent in the 2003 case, Grutter v. Bollingers, which had recognized student body diversity as a compelling interest permitting the limited consideration of race in admissions. Today’s decision demonstrates a lack of…
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We are living in a time when a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. Dozens of states are attempting to erase history from textbooks and curriculum if it paints certain populations in an unflattering light, and teachers’ jobs are under threat in many places if they teach certain concepts.
This is no accident. It’s happening at a time when more excellent work than ever before is being published to accurately and inclusively represent history.…
Province announced support to expand the number of medical school seats at Queen’s | Queen’s Gazette
The expansion includes seats for new Queen’s-Lakeridge Health family medicine training program to alleviate doctor shortages in the region.
Ontario’s Minister of Colleges and Universities, Jill Dunlop, shares remarks during the announcement event at Lakeridge Health in Oshawa, Ontario. Also visible, from left to right: Todd McCarthy, MPP for Durham; Lorne Coe, MPP for Whitby; Jane Philpott, Dean of Queen’s Health Sciences; Peter Bethlenfalvy, Minister of Finance; and Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health.
Queen’s is among several post-secondary institutions named during an announcement today that is being marked as the provincial government’s largest expansion of medical education…
Daily Leg Update – Saskatchewan government under the microscope for decision to pay down debt instead of spending more on priority areas.
REGINA – Reaction was swift on Wednesday after finance minister Donna Harpauer presented Saskatchewan’s 2023-24 budget.
The focus of interest groups at the legislature quickly zeroed in on the $1 billion surplus, and the decision by the province to retire $1 billion in operational debt in the provincial budget.
In speaking to reporters Wednesday, Premier Scott Moe defended the decision to address the debt.
“What we have decided with increased interest rates, this was in the best interests…
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In the 15 years I’ve been an ELA teacher, do you know the number one thing that finally turned my small group discussions from surface-level talks that seemed like a waste of a class period into engaging, high-level analysis and collaboration? Discussions during which I not-so-secretly hoped my principal…
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This post was supposed to be just for math teachers. I was going to share an instructional approach that, as dramatic as this sounds, has taken the math world by storm. The methodology is called Thinking Classrooms, and now that I have gotten a closer look at…