Science, Medicine, & Education

Boxer seeks prompt college guidelines on sexual assault

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release). – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Monday, May 5,  sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, urging him to quickly finalize and release regulations that will provide clear guidance to universities on how to address sexual assault on campus. A recent report issued by the White House Task Force to

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Anti-Semitic speech, behavior on the rise, but not violence

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Despite a 20% decline in the number of violent incidents against Jews, last year saw a sharp rise in abusive language and behavior, threats, and harassment of Jewish people on an individual basis around the world, according to the annual report presented on April 27, 2014, by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor

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Israel advocate says pro- Palestinians excel on campuses

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Former IDF Lt. Hen Mazzig, who coordinates Israel advocacy for StandWithUs’s Pacific Northwest Chapter on 15 college campuses in and around Seattle, Washington, says the American Jewish community may be too focused on interacting with present-day elites, while pro-Palestinian advocates are building a constituency among the college

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Syrian attack on school another war crime — Cardin

WASHINGTON , D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland.), a senior member of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, condemned the Assad regime’s attack, on April 30, on a school in the city of Aleppo that killed as many as 47 people, mainly children. The students were preparing

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Franken bill would require colleges to post net costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — With college growing increasingly unaffordable and student loan debt continuing to rise, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have introduced a bipartisan bill to give students and families a better estimate of college costs before they apply for schools. The bill would also help ensure that prospective

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Day school Israel education feeds sense of connection

NEW YORK (Press Release) — Sixty-five years after its establishment, Israel remains a central feature of Jewish educational programming in North America, perhaps nowhere more ubiquitously than in Jewish day schools. The AVI CHAI Foundation’s newly released report, “Hearts and Minds: Israel in North American Jewish Day Schools,” takes the measure of what day schools seek to

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Toxins taken during pregnancy can turn baby’s genes off

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — In the 1950s and 1960s, pregnant women with morning sickness were often prescribed the new drug thalidomide. Shortly after the medicine was released on the market, a reported 10,000 infants were born with an extreme form of the rare congenital phocomelia syndrome, which caused death in 50 percent of cases and

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Senator Richard Blumenthal moves against sexual assaults on college campuses and in the U.S. military

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In a letter to Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) – joined by U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) –on Wednesday, April

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Bill requiring early vision testing for students advances

SACRAMENTO (Press Release)– To improve literacy rates among children, the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday, April 30,  supported a measure by California Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg to improve vision-screening at elementary schools on a bipartisan vote of 6 – 0, with the roll still open for additional votes from three committee members. Senate Bill 1172 will ensure

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Represent women in drug trials — 15 Senators

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–In advance of Mother’s Day, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and a group of bipartisan women senators today urged the Obama administration to stand up for women’s health to make sure medical treatments are safe and effective for women. In a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, the senators urged that more

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Davis, Ryan offer bill to help social learning in schools

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Reps. Susan Davis (D-California) and Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) introduced legislation in the House to help schools include social and emotional learning (SEL).  The Supporting Emotional Learning (SEL) Act (H.R. 4509) would support teacher training in SEL to help young people better handle societal issues thus boosting their academic potential.  Students

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