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OM Brazil receives new team members

For OM Brazil, the year started with 10 great reasons to be encouraged and motivated: the arrival of 10 new workers.




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Notice of Correction: Ryan SA, Ammerman SD, OConnor ME; AAP Committee on Substance Use and Prevention; AAP Section on Breastfeeding. Marijuana Use During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Implications for Neonatal and Childhood Outcomes. Pediatrics. 2018;142(3




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Interim Guidance for Basic and Advanced Life Support in Children and Neonates With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19




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Tummy Time and Infant Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review

We conducted a systematic review to demonstrate that tummy time was positively associated with gross motor development; prone, supine, crawling, and rolling development; reduction in BMI-z; and prevention of brachycephaly.




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Outcomes, Resource Use, and Financial Costs of Unplanned Extubations in Preterm Infants

Using a matched cohort design, in this study, we define the adverse clinical and financial implications of UEs in the NICU.




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Fin24.com | Foreign funds: an investment case?




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Fin24.com | As risk-free as an investment gets

Money market funds are about managing income.




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Fin24.com | Beware tax on soccer entertainment

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is sure to increase entertainment spend, but firms should note that wining and dining linked to a business undertaking may be taxed.




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Fin24.com | New PAYE tax process for SMEs

Small- and medium-sized firms have until the end of October to comply with the first biannual PAYE tax reconciliation process.




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Fin24.com | Get with the Top 200 programme

The terminology of our main ratio and performance measurements.




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Fin24.com | EPS: a deeper meaning

The beauty of the EPS table is that you can spot the ‘sleepers’ – the companies that deserve wider recognition due to superior performance over five years.




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Fin24.com | Demanding or demeaning?

There are so many surprise rankings on this year's p:e table, you're bound to go back into old Sens announcements.




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The "Creative Destruction" of the American School Publishing Industry

Marc Tucker discusses the consolidation of the American textbook industry and its impact on the quality of the instructional materials publishers now produce.




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Teachers Told Me Their Stories of Sexual Assault and Harassment—and Why They Keep Silent

Even in this extraordinary #MeToo era, ordinary women who've experienced harassment or assault at work are often reluctant to share their stories publicly. Arianna Prothero found that to be just as true as she reported on sexual harassment and assaults in schools and other K-12 workplaces.




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Don't Blame Teachers for Selling Their Lesson Plans. Blame the System That Makes It Necessary

Schools can't even afford to hire enough teachers, so why are we surprised that teachers are turning to a website for resources? asks Kat Tipton.




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Fin24.com | Life cover: with investment?

Should a life policy also include an investment component? A financial planner gives his take.




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Fin24.com | SA member of new economic club

SA is part of a new group of exciting emerging economies, the so-called Civets, says HSBC.




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Harvest time

An outreach team helps to harvest a field and a family.




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SMS Bible verses become daily bread

Pamir Productions radio ministry sends texts to encourage listeners and viewers.




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A message of forgiveness

The 2012 movie of 'Les Miserable' provides an opportunity in Kazakhstan to discuss faith, forgiveness and obedience.




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God was chasing me

A girl from Central Asia shares her testimony about how she became a believer after seven years of hearing about Jesus.




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Seeking merit from God

An OMer shares with a local Muslim man through the concept of earning merit with God.




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From homeless to hopeful

Anna, a homeless woman, found the source of life through the love and care of an OM team in Central Asia.




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Breaking barriers for homeless ministry

A worker uses previous experience with homeless ministry to reach out in Central Asia and introduce his church to people they could serve.




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Hugging grandmas and businessmen

OM Chile's Intensive Training participants spend a morning sharing the gospel in a local plaza in Santiago.




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Meeting again in heaven

An OM Chile short-term participant describes a recent ministry outing as the hardest night of his life but remains hopeful in spite of it all.




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Quality time with water slides, dramas and pizzas

OM Chile celebrates Christmas with the boys and girls of two children's homes in Santiago.




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Meetings arranged by God

Worker Mirjam Hoolsema, from the Netherlands, talks about her experience with a woman she saw every day during her daily devotion.




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Successes and struggles in the children's home

OM Chile’s Children’s Ministry knows the power of God’s Word and the support of encouraging adults can change children’s lives.




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The miracle of a family meal

Jessie Stein tells the story of God's faithfulness in the midst of learning a foreign language and the struggles of a broken family.




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Achievement Gap

Achievement gaps in math between Latino students and their white counterparts set in before kindergarten, says a new report by Child Trends' Hispanic Institute.




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Achievement Gaps

White teachers are generally less optimistic about their black students' chances of obtaining a four-year degree than black teachers—and those lowered expectations could become "self-fulfilling prophecies" when students internalize them or when teachers change their approach to students as a result,




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The Achievement Gap Isn't on Parents

A recent blog post by Walt Gardner ("The Hard Truth About the Achievement Gap," placed the blame for the achievement gap on one group above others: parents.




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Start Early: Close the Achievement Gap Before It Starts

The non-marital birth rate to women age 24 and under was 71 percent in 2017. Here's what that means for educational outcomes and schools, according to guest blogger Ian Rowe.




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Flipped Classrooms May Exacerbate Student Achievement Gaps. Here's How

Flipped classrooms have been getting attention as a way for teachers to find more time for activities and individual support during the regular school day, but a new study cautions that the model could trade short-term gains for wider achievement gaps.




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The Deficit Lens of the 'Achievement Gap' Needs to Be Flipped. Here's How

Does a student have a fixed or a growth mindset? That's the wrong question for us to measure, argues researcher Dave Paunesku.




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Achievement Gaps

In 50 years, the achievement gap has been unchanged, with the poorest 10 percent of students performing three to four years behind the wealthiest 10 percent of peers, finds a new study in the journal Education Next.




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Black-White Achievement Gaps Go Hand in Hand With Discipline Disparities

As black-white achievement gaps widen in schools, so, too, do disparities in discipline rates between black and white students, according to a study published Wednesday of 2,000 schools.




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Does 'the Achievement Gap' Evoke a Negative Stereotype? What the Research Says

What we call education inequality defines how—and even if—we solve it, write three researchers.




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Poverty, Not Race, Fuels the Achievement Gap

A new analysis finds that high-poverty schools are the least effective. But why those schools stifle achievement is harder to figure out.




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The Dangerous Narrative That Lurks Under the 'Achievement Gap'

Black students are not to blame for their lack of educational opportunities, argues assistant principal Eric Higgins.




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Who's to Blame for the Black-White Achievement Gap?

Why don’t black students perform as well as white students on tests? One reporter considers her personal history to understand this disparity.




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Missouri Teachers See Student Academic Gains After Making Home Visits

A new study found that students who received teacher home visits did better on state tests and had better attendance records than students whose homes were not visited.




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Study: Teachers May Need Training in How to Deal With Parent Harassment

A new study shows that teachers with negative parental interactions are more likely to have such experiences. How can teachers deal with parental harassment?




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What a Lesson Plan for Parent Engagement Looks Like

Let's make engaging students and families beyond our classrooms a part of every lesson plan, Megan M. Allen writes.




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Can Visiting Students at Home Make Teachers Less Biased?

A study by RTI International and Johns Hopkins University found evidence that teachers' assumptions and biases about their students' families can change after visiting their homes.




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Tighter Home-School Bonds Improve Students' Social and Emotional Skills (as Well as Academics)

Partnering with parents can help students of any age who have trouble with social or mental health issues. But the devil is in the details, finds an analysis of more than 100 studies.




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What's a More Important Parent Investment: Money or Time?

Two new international studies look at how parents judge how to invest in their children's education, and what happens to children's academic progress when one parent can't be involved.




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Education Week American Education News Site of Record - News

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Storytime, Meet Number Play: Early Math in the Home Matters for Later Skills

Preschool-age children who frequently play number-related games at home show better math skills and growth by the end of kindergarten, finds a new study in the journal Child Development.