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STEMteach: Preparing the Next Generation of Mathematics and Science Teachers
With an increasing demand for individuals prepared in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), one university responded to this call by changing its teacher preparation program. Better-prepared mathematics and science teachers have the opportunity to engage and excite students, thereby preparing and promoting more of them to enter the STEM professions. The described program is a replication of the national UTeach model that recruits content majors in mathematics and science to explore the teaching profession during a first-semester course that includes an early field experience in the elementary grades. This field experience is designed to be engaging for both the teacher education candidates and the elementary students in an effort to demonstrate the joy of teaching and to retain the candidates in the program. The ultimate goal of the program is to increase the production of quality secondary mathematics and science teachers who can transfer their own deep understanding of their content to students so that these students will be career and college ready in the STEM disciplines
Parenting Programmes for preventing tobacco, alcohol or drugs misuse in children under 18 : a systematic review
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Health Education Research following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Petrie, J. ,Bunn, F. and Byrne, G. (2007) 'Parenting Programmes for preventing tobacco, alcohol or drug abuse in children under 18:a systematic review'. Health Education Research 22 (2) pp.177-191] is available online at: http://her.oxfordjournals.org/archive/index.dtl --Copyright Oxford University PressWe conducted a systematic review of controlled studies of parenting programmes to prevent tobacco, alcohol or drug abuse in children under 18. We searched Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, specialised Register of Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group, Pub Med, psych INFO, CINALH, and SIGLE. Two reviewers independently screened studies, extracted data and assessed study quality. Data were collected on actual or intended use of tobacco, alcohol or drugs by child, and associated risk or antecedent behaviours. Due to heterogeneity we did not pool studies in a meta-analysis and instead present a narrative summary of the findings. Twenty studies met our inclusion criteria. Statistically significant self-reported reductions of alcohol use were found in six of 14 studies, of drugs in five of nine studies and tobacco in nine out of 13 studies. Three interventions reported increases of tobacco, drug and alcohol use. We concluded that parenting programmes can be effective in reducing or preventing substance use. The most effective appeared to be those that shared an emphasis on active parental involvement and on developing skills in social competence, self-regulation and parenting. However, more work is needed to investigate further the change processes involved in such interventions and their long-term effectivenessPeer reviewe
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Beyond Crises: The Unending Challenge of Controlling Nuclear Weapons and Materials
Book abstract: At the height of the Cultural Revolution a Chinese long-range nuclear missile is fired within the country, and the nuclear warhead it is carrying detonates. A French nuclear device is exploded in Algeria during a coup there. The Soviet empire has collapsed, and shots are fired at a Russian crowd intent on rushing a nuclear weapons-laden plane straining to remove a stash of nuclear weapons to a safer locale. Pakistani civilian governments are routinely pushed aside by a powerful, nuclear-armed military that observers worry might yet itself fall prey to a faction willing to seize a portion of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. This volume reveals previously unknown details on each case and teases out what is to be learned. This book is ideal not only for policymakers and analysts, but for historians and teachers as well
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Reducing Nuclear Dangers
Ron Rosenbaum wants us to be worried. His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III is intended as an urgent warning that the terrifying dangers of nuclear weapons did not disappear when the Cold War ended two decades ago. There are still many thousands of nuclear weapons in the world—about 95% of them in the U.S. and Russian arsenals—and thousands of them are constantly poised for launch within minutes
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Strengthening Global Approaches to Nuclear Security
Despite substantial progress in improving nuclear security in recent years, there is more to
be done. The threats of nuclear theft and terrorism remain very real. This paper recommends learning
from the much stronger national and international efforts in nuclear safety, and in particular taking
steps to build international understanding of the threat; establish effective performance objectives;
assure performance; train and certify needed personnel; build security culture and exchange best
practices; reduce the number of sites that need to be protected; and strengthen the international
framework and continue the dialogue once leaders are no longer meeting regularly at the summit level
Cosmic microwave background constraints on cosmological models with large-scale isotropy breaking
Several anomalies appear to be present in the large-angle cosmic microwave
background (CMB) anisotropy maps of WMAP, including the alignment of
large-scale multipoles. Models in which isotropy is spontaneously broken (e.g.,
by a scalar field) have been proposed as explanations for these anomalies, as
have models in which a preferred direction is imposed during inflation. We
examine models inspired by these, in which isotropy is broken by a
multiplicative factor with dipole and/or quadrupole terms. We evaluate the
evidence provided by the multipole alignment using a Bayesian framework,
finding that the evidence in favor of the model is generally weak. We also
compute approximate changes in estimated cosmological parameters in the
broken-isotropy models. Only the overall normalization of the power spectrum is
modified significantly.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
The Wellbeing Toolkit Training Programme: A Useful Resource for Educational Psychology Services?
Background. Supporting pupils’ social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) development is a task that schools are expected to undertake in England, yet many staff members find it challenging due to their belief that they don’t possess the necessary skills.
Objective. To evaluate a commercially available, training resource, The Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit, aimed at raising the skills of adults working with children in the SEMH area. Design. The Toolkit was adapted and used as training material by a professional team comprised of educational psychologists, clinical psychologists, and specialist teachers, for schools within an eastern region in England. A mixed methodology was employed to evaluate the usefulness of the Toolkit as a training resource, as well as its perceived effectiveness in raising the skills of school professionals working within the SEMH area. Qualitative as well as quantitative data was gathered from the two groups participating in training, as school staff delegates, and as facilitators of training delivery. Descriptive statistics and content analysis were used for data analysis.
Results. The findings suggest evidence of improved skills and knowledge in the area of SEMH, with some specific impact on delegates’ practice. Implications for practice are discussed
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Threat Perceptions and Drivers of Change in Nuclear Security Around the World: Results of a Survey
Leaders at the 2010 nuclear security summit agreed on the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear
material in four years. This goal implied that many countries would change their nuclear security
policies. But the factors that drive changes in nuclear security policies, and that constrain those
changes, are not well understood. We conducted a survey of selected nuclear security experts in
countries with nuclear weapons, highly enriched uranium (HEU), or separated plutonium, to explore
this issue. The survey included: (a) perceptions of which threats are credible; (b) approaches
to nuclear security based on a design basis threat (DBT); (c) changes in nuclear security policy in
the last 15 years; (d) factors causing and constraining changes in nuclear security policy; and (e)
policy on how much information to release about nuclear security. This paper describes the survey,
its results, and implications for next steps to strengthen global nuclear security
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