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But the other half set the bar very low early on, and starting about now expect big annual achievement gains, according to a report being released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy.
• Sync up to your brain's power hours
Your brain now has moderate levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which in reasonable amounts can actually help your mind focus, says Sung Lee, MD, secretary of the International Brain Education Association.
• Study debunks teens' oral sex myth
Proponents of sex-education programs that focus on abstinence said the findings debunked the criticism that the approach was inadvertently prompting more teens to have oral sex, which still carries the risk of sexually transmitted disease, in order ...
• Notre Dame alum donates $20 million to school
Ralph Stayer announced Monday he was donating the money to his alma mater for the construction of a new building for executive education in the school's Mendoza College of Business.
• How to make your day-care safer during a disaster
Unlike K-12 public schools, which are largely complying with a federal mandate to have a disaster plan, early childhood education and care is not federally regulated, and few states require disaster planning, Smith says.

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» Fundamentals of Microbiology   - Very complete lecture notes with detailed graphics, Summer '03 - from the Univ. of Conn.


» American Society for Microbiology - Education - Supports educators and students by offering career listings, curriculum resources, publications, workshops, networks, and funding for educational programs. Includes events schedule, organization news, and online library of peer reviewed sites.
» Environmental Microbiology Course - Environmental Microbiology - An on-line and distance learning course (Biology 447) from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with an emphasis on water microbiology issues.
» General Microbiology II - Micro 521 - Ohio State University - Marie-A. Gilles Gonzalez - Spring 98
» Host-Parasite Interactions - Bacteriology 330 - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Ken Todar, Spring 97
» Infectious Diseases Lectures - Dr. Chamberlain's Infectious Diseases Lectures for medical students at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.
» James E. Graham - Assistant Professor at University of Louisville School of Medicine. Research involves bacterial gene expression associated with infectious diseases. Includes a description of research and publications.
» Medical Microbiology: Neal Chamberlain's Microbial World - Contains lecture notes in infectious diseases, immunology and microbiology, a bacterial unknown lab manual, computerized clinical cases, a most common causes of infections file, test files, a clinical cases links page, and a photo gallery of pathogenic bacteria.
» Medical Microbiology Synopsis - Site provides an overview of medical microbiology for students of medicine. Typical and atypical microbial flora are listed per specimen source and characterized in flowchart diagrams that can be easily memorized.
» Medical Parasitology - Liverpool John Moores University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine provides a vocational programme for professional microbiologists with an interest in obtaining an MSc in medical parasitology.
» Microbes in Action - Provides scientific information and hands-on activities in microbiology to K-12 teachers via curriculum units and workshops.
» Microbial Genetics - University of Arizona - Christina Kennedy and Sandy Pierson, Spring 97
» Microbiology Courses at Kapiolani Community College - University of Hawaii - Kapiolani Community College - JOHN M. BERESTECKY, Ph.D.
» Microbiology Online - Information and resources to support UK schools microbiology teaching at all Keystages to post-16.
» Microbiology Webbed Out - Online textbook by Timothy Paustian. Topics include classification, the structure of procaryotes, bacteria growth and nutrition, metabolism, host parasites, control of microbial growth, and genetics of bacteria.
» Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research - MISSION: To expand the scope and quality of research in biodefense and emerging infectious diseases in the region, with the goal of developing the next generation of diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics against selected biologic threats.
» MSc Virology (Medical) by distance learning - The MSc Virology by distance learning (Liverpool John Moores University) provides a vocational programme for busy professional microbiologists with an interest in infectious disease.
» Prokaryotic Microbiology - Bacteriology 303 - University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ken Todar, Spring 97
» Taxonomy of Oxalate-degrading bacteria - Oxalate-degrading bacteria, oxalate, taxonomy, oxalate utilization