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Americans of All Ages Are Ready for Citizen Service: Are Politicians Ready to Lead Them?
This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce
Original Source The nation faces an impending health care crisis as the number of older patients with more complex health needs increasingly outpaces the number of health care providers with the knowledge and skills to adequately care for them. As the nation’s baby boomers turn…
Author: Institute of Medicine
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AAFP FOUNDATION RECEIVES $2.9 MILLION GRANT TO FOCUS ON ENSURING HIGH-QUALITY GERIATRIC CARE
The following information was released by the American Academy of Family Physicians: Family physicians and America’s seniors stand to benefit from a $2.9 million grant recently awarded by The Atlantic Philanthropies to the AAFP Foundation. The three-year grant is to help the Academy develop and…
Author: States News Service
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Don't limit learning to the school year
The Center on Education Policy’s study on the effects of the No Child Left Behind law documents the major changes that parents, students and teachers have seen in classrooms in Baltimore and across the country over the past five years (” Reading, math eat up…
Author: Baltimore Sun
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Pioneering Trinity course produces first graduates
The first students of a pioneering university course for people with intellectual disabilities complete their studies tomorrow. The 19 Trinity College students, who will be awarded certificates in contemporary living when they formally graduate in December, plan now to work in various areas including office…
Author: Irish Times