Longtime leader in the prevention of sexual assault and dating violence against women Joe Biden called on mobile developers to come up with a new innovative tool that would better protect women during dangerous situations.
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, along with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced the “Apps Against Abuse” contest, a national challenge for developers to create an application in which women could designate trusted friends or emergency contacts and allow them to check in with these individuals during at-risk situations. Additionally, the app will provide fast, easy access to information and resources regarding sexual assault or dating violence.
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PHILADELPHIA — Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have provided the first neurobiological evidence that memories formed in the same context become linked, the foundation of the theory of episodic memory.
The research was conducted by professor Michael Kahana of the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences and graduate student Jeremy R. Manning, of the Neuroscience Graduate Group in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. They collaborated with Gordon Baltuch and Brian Litt of the departments of Neurology and Psychology at the medical school and Sean M. Polyn of Vanderbilt University.
Their research was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
“Theories of episodic memory suggest that when I remember an event, I retrieve its earlier context and make it part of my present context,” Kahana said. “When I remember my grandmother, for example, I pull back all sorts of associations of a different time and place in my life; I’m also remembering living in Detroit and her Hungarian cooking. It’s like me
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An L.A. Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled against supporters of a new law that lets parents radically overhaul a low performing school.
Six months, ago, parents at Compton Unified’s McKinley Elementary School became the first to file a “parent trigger” petition. The school district rejected it, saying there was no place on the petition to write the date each signature was collected.
Dates are important, the district argued, to determine a McKinley student’s enrolled status and to make sure the signature was collected after the law had been approved. Lawyers for the parents went to court, saying the date the petitions were submitted was the most important date.
In a tentative ruling, L.A. Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr has agreed with Compton Unified, noting that the absence of dates on the petition is “fatal.” He’ll hear more arguments in two weeks, but it’s not likely he’ll change his decision.
Policymakers are crafting regulations for the parent trigger law. A lot’s riding on
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So much going on. It’s hard to keep up. So here’s a round-up of a few things on the local education scene that are actually pretty important, but haven’t gotten much attention in recent days:
MTEA executive director is out: Stan Johnson, the executive director of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, is out, continuing a period of difficulties and instability in leadership of the union. Johnson resigned last week “for personal reasons,” according to a union spokesman who said there would be no further comment. But Johnson’s abrupt departure suggested it was not an amiable matter.
Johnson was previously president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the union organizations which has been at the heart of education politics in Wisconsin in recent decades. He was one of the most widely known teachers’ union figures in the state.
In a period when all teachers’ unions have been facing a lot of challenges, the MTEA has had had the complication of continuing leadership issues. Tom Morgan was named executive director in 2007, succeeding long-term union leader Sam Carmen. But Morgan died of Read full article…
Tuition for New Jersey students at Rutgers University will raise by 1.8 percent in the coming school year after the university’s Board of Governors rolled back the increase.
The university had proposed an in-state tuition increase of 3.6 percent as part of a package that would have raised student costs overall by about 3 percent.
Board chairman Ralph Izzo said it was too high.
The university’s administration must now find about $12 million in spending cuts to pay for the lower tuition increase.
The university’s overall budget is more than $2 billion.
Under the plan approved Thursday, out-of-state tuition will still be up by about 5 percent.