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| The latest news from the Academies
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Aug. 4 -- A new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council offers guidance on how to assess children in preschool and early childhood programs such as Head Start. Well-planned assessments can help improve programs and lead to better outcomes for children, but poor assessments or misuse of results can harm both children and programs, the report says. Extreme caution is needed in implementing high-stakes assessments in early childhood settings.
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Jul. 31 -- A new report from the National Research Council presents 60 innovations that could significantly boost crop and animal production in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, including nine that could be immediately developed into agricultural applications. The technologies range from those that are years from being implemented to others that are available but not widely applied in these regions.
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Jul. 29 -- To date, U.S. plans for participation in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project have been effective and well thought out, says a new National Research Council report. However, funding uncertainties cast doubt on U.S. commitment to this international collaboration. Stable U.S. funding is needed to effectively plan for participation in ITER, to benefit from coming fusion energy research, and to take part in future international scientific collaborations.
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| Breaking stories in science
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Aug. 1 -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recognize August as National Immunization Awareness Month. Immunization, noted as one of the most significant health interventions of the 20th century, has helped eradicate smallpox worldwide, virtually eliminated polio from this hemisphere, and significantly reduced the occurrence of measles, diphtheria, rubella, pertussis, and other diseases in the U.S. While many people are routinely immunized, there are still tens of thousands of deaths around the world caused by vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Jul. 25 -- Texas utility regulators announced the largest renewable-energy investment in the U.S. when they recently approved a $4.9 billion plan that will build extensive transmission lines to carry wind-generated electricity from remote western parts of the state to urban centers like Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.
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Jul. 18 -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City has announced the implementation of an alternative to the current poverty measure. It will be the first time any local government has reformulated the nation's 40-year-old standard for determining poverty levels, which is based primarily on food expenditures.
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Jul. 10 -- Over the past few months, a salmonella outbreak has infected over 1,000 people around the U.S. The suspect food items -- certain types of tomatoes, jalapeno and serrano peppers and cilantro -- have had the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other public health officials scrambling to determine where in the cultivation and distribution chain the infection originated, and what can be done to protect consumers.
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