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  • New K-12 Advocacy Groups Wield State-Level Clout

    Education Week
    New organizations are making their impact felt in statehouses on issues such as teacher evaluation and charter schools.
    New organizations are making their impact felt in statehouses on issues such as teacher evaluation and charter schools.
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  • Who Is Writing the 'Next Generation' Science Standards?

    Education Week
    As the general public now gets a chance to weigh in on a first draft of common standards in science, the question arises: Who is writing these voluntary standards, anyway?
    As the general public now gets a chance to weigh in on a first draft of common standards in science, the question arises: Who is writing these voluntary standards, anyway?
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  • Brain Gain, Brain Drain

    Inside Higher Ed
    A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research provides data on just which countries are gaining and which are losing talent.
    A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research provides data on just which countries are gaining and which are losing talent.
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  • Teens Compete in International Science Research Fair's Pittsburgh Finals

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    American and international teenagers are competing this week at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center for Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2012—the world's largest high school science research competition.
    American and international teenagers are competing this week at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center for Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2012—the world's largest high school science research competition.
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Blick’s Pick

Evacuated tube transport:

There are a lot of videos available on the web that depict proposed new technologies for transportation, energy generation, and communication. I take all of these with large grains (or crystals) of salt, as it is easy to create a professional-looking animation and hard to invent a world-changing new invention. Physics teachers could ask students to use the data in this video to verify the claim of traveling from NY to LA in 45 minutes, and also to brainstorm the technical challenges of building such a system. YouTube link

Blick's Pick offers a new science video every week (archived here). Visit Blick on Flicks for Jacob Clark Blickenstaff's reviews of movies and other media.

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On May 16 in 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declares that nicotine is addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.

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