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Higher Education Report Card Gives Arkansas An 'F' In Affordability (KTHV Little Rock) It's getting more and more expensive to send your child to college. Forty-nine states flunk when it comes to college affordability and Arkansas is among them, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. us.rd.yahoo.com
Important And Significant Progress In The Efforts To Discover The Origins Of Age-Related Hearing Loss (Medical News Today) Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, accounts for 30 percent of all hearing loss. So, why do some people lose their hearing as they get older but other people can still hear a pin drop? The answer may be in a study released online in the journal Human Molecular Genetics. Advance access is available online at http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/papbyrecent.dtl. us.rd.yahoo.com
Inside Game Piracy, Part 1: Crushing Discs, Pushing Education (Gamasutra) [Game piracy is still a major issue, and in this first part of a Gamasutra special report, we talk to the ESA and PC Gaming Alliance -- discussing why cracking down on physical goods piracy and "making people think just one more time before they click download" may break the vicious cycle.] When 2D Boy recently claimed that the piracy rate for its PC independent game World of Goo was something ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Or Ami addresses parenting issues (The Acorn) Congregation Or Ami's Center for Jewish Parenting is currently offering a series of lectures that cover a wide range of parenting issues. Last month, Or Ami invited representatives from Beit T'shuvah and Malibu's Visions Treatment Facility to help parents understand some of the reasons why children turn to drugs and how the abuse can be prevented. us.rd.yahoo.com
Opposing Viewpoints: Education (Brigham Young NewsNet) Members of the BYU Republicans and Democrats share their opposing viewpoints on education in today's op-ed. us.rd.yahoo.com
Why human rights are no luxury (Baltic Times) Exactly 60 years have passed since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. Looking back, I think that in Europe, despite ups and downs, we can be proud of many important advances. us.rd.yahoo.com
Rev. Debra Haffner: Unearthing Common Ground: Why Reducing Abortions is Not the Goal (HuffingtonPost) The call to reduce unintended pregnancies is the right one. What we must focus on now are the means: sex education (not abstinence-only) and universal access to contraceptive services. us.rd.yahoo.com
Sadanand Menon: How National is the NID? (Business Standard India) As a nation, we have been rather poor in institutional histories. us.rd.yahoo.com
Opposition in 'humiliating backdown' on schools bill (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne has denied the Coalition has backflipped on its opposition to the Schools Assistance bill, after agreeing to pass it without further amendments. us.rd.yahoo.com
Latest issue (Aliran Online) Aliran Kesedaran Negara (Aliran) is a social movement. Its aim is to raise social consciousness and encourage social action that will lead to social justice. us.rd.yahoo.com
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