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Early childhood education: Avoiding expulsions
Trinity Day School in Tulsa praises the work of a little-known Oklahoma program for improving the behavior of children in its classrooms and strengthening the school's curriculum.
The Child Care Consultation program fits a recommendation made by a national panel last week as a way to reduce expulsions in early childhood programs.
Allison Geary, special projects coordinator for the nationally accredited Trinity Day School, said the school has used the consultants at least seven times in the last six months.
"It benefits our school as a whole," Geary said. "Parents can have more confi dence that we are not only relying on our own instincts and knowledge, which are good, but also on the body of scholarly research to follow best practices."
The program's goal is to keep children enrolled in centers when they might be in danger of being asked to leave.
Fires continue to threaten Hampton Roads after a hectic night
After brief training this afternoon, more than 100 soldiers will be available, according to a news release. Virginia Guard aviation support already is on standby. Wind and flames teamed to make Sunday night incredibly busy for local firefighters as scores of blazes broke out. One person was charged with two misdemeanors after fire burned three acres in a Suffolk neighborhood. "It’s just crazy," Jim Judkins, a Suffolk Fire Department spokesman, said Sunday night. "We’re looking at conditions like they have in California, high winds and low humidity. It’s just a bad day for fires." Gov. Tim Kaine declared a state of emergency as flames, fanned by winds gusting to 50 mph and higher, swept hundreds of acres of brush and woodland, wrecked a Virginia Beach apartment building, destroyed a Chesapeake home and left motorists stalled as an interstate highway was closed.
Barbara Anderson: Experts, bureaucrats are unlikely guides on path to ...
After assaulting the proposed "economic stimulus plan" last week in this column, I went looking for an economic stimulus plan of my own. Of course, one can criticize a plan without having an alternative plan to present. There are so many more plans, on so many subjects, than there is time to acquire enough expertise to address all of them. Critics play a valuable role just by opposing bad ideas, encouraging those who present them to return to the drawing board. In a democracy, citizens have an obligation to at least know what they don't want, and hope they will recognize the better idea when they finally see it. All taxpayers have a right to support tax limitation, knowing what they can afford and should reasonably be expected to pay for the services they consider essential.
Silverton may sue doc over laser treatment
British news presenter Kate Silverton is threatening to sue the doctor who conducted the laser skin-rejuvenation procedure that temporarily disfigured her.
Silverton, 37, underwent the treatment to have acne scars removed and to improve her skin tone; however, her face ended up swollen and covered in painful sores and lumps, the Daily Telegraph reported.
She was also forced to take two weeks off from her job at the BBC, the report said.
Although Silverton is now back to work, she told her attorneys to begin proceedings against the Jan Stanek clinic in London.
"It's been awful. I went in to get some minor scarring on my cheeks treated. I was told it would be a routine procedure and I'd be back to work in days. The treatment, however, caused a massive skin reaction," Silverton told the Telegraph.
Keep Father Time From Marching On: New Laser Treatments Offer Gentle And Effective Skin Resurfacing In A Flash
For most people, the significant downtime involved in undergoing an invasive laser resurfacing procedure to reverse the obvious signs of aging skin is not realistic given today's busy, deadline-driven lifestyle. Now, a number of new minimally invasive laser skin resurfacing technologies are delivering noticeable improvements for people looking to freshen up their look without spending weeks under wraps, as is common with their invasive counterparts.
Speaking at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy), dermatologist Jeffrey S. Dover, MD, FAAD, associate clinical professor of dermatology at Yale University Medical School in New Haven, Conn., shared his professional experience with three of the newer laser skin resurfacing procedures being used to treat fine lines, wrinkles, photodamage and uneven skin pigmentation.
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