The role of the arts in learning: a comprehensive education should include the arts as a way to understand and appreciate the core curriculum and expand students' views of life and culture.
If you say to a room full of kindergartners, "Raise your hand if you are an artist," almost everyone will raise a hand. But if you ask a room full of high school students to do the same thing, virtually none will respond. Most students, as they get older,...

Emergency Nursing: Core Curriculum (6th edition).
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Emergency Nursing: Core Curriculum (6th edition) by Emergency Nurses Association, Saunders Publishing (available through Elsevier Australia), RRP $125.00 : ISBN 9781-41603-755-2 Whether you are a new or an experienced emergency nurse, you'll find that the Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum, 6th Edition is an...

Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses.
Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses by Linda Ohler and Sandra Cupples, Mosby (available through Elsevier Australia), RRP $100.00 : ISBN 1780323044110 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses provides transplant and critical care nurses guidance in caring for solid organ transplant recipients. The focus...

The saga of St. Joseph's: a core curriculum that works.
The last day of January, three hours out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, and I am driving across a snowy Indiana landscape under a darkening sky to fulfill a speaking assignment. Having written a book titled The Idea of a Catholic University, I have given several talks sponsored by...

Revolutionary Reading Game, ItzaBitza, Tapped by COMPUTER EXPLORERS to be Incorporated Into International Curriculum.
Innovative game, powered by Microsoft technology, combines learning to read with cutting-edge drawing technology. HOUSTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- COMPUTER EXPLORERS, a company dedicated to technology and learning, today introduced Sabi, Inc.'s educational computer game, ItzaBitza (http://www.itzabitza.com/), as part of the company's newest curriculum. ItzaBitza is designed...

University of Michigan's Zell Lurie Institute Welcomes Erik Gordon as Associate Director.
Gordon Will Hone Students' Entrepreneurial Skill Set While Collaborating with External Business Leaders to Elevate 'Real World' Experiences for Students ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies / Center for Venture Capital & Private Equity Finance,...

VSNA continuing education programs approved.
VSNA Continuing Education Programs Approved: 8/15/2008 Assuring Feeding Tubes Stay out of Lungs/ New WHO 9/6/2008 Major Depressive Disorder: Present State of Clinical Care 10/3/2008 Surviving Hive: Improve Relations w/Adults in 11/14/2008 A Workshop for Those Living with Grief/ Loss 11/7/2008 Boston MedFlight Critical Care Transport Conference 9/26/2008 Seminar...

ODYSSEY(R) Battery Teams with the Bob Bondurant Driving and Racing School.
READING, Pa., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ODYSSEY(R) battery by EnerSys(R) announced a new technical partnership with the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. As a technical partner, ODYSSEY(R) battery will provide the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving with batteries and supplies (i.e. battery chargers)...

Renaissance Learning, Inc. Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Renaissance Learning(TM), Inc., , a leading provider of technology to support personalized practice, differentiated instruction, and progress monitoring in reading, math, and writing for pre-K-12 schools and districts, announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.07 per...

Renaissance Learning, Inc. to Report Fourth Quarter 2008 Financial Results on January 29, 2009.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Renaissance Learning(TM), Inc., , a leading provider of technology to support personalized practice, differentiated instruction, and progress monitoring in reading, math, and writing for pre-K-12 schools and districts, today announced plans to release fourth quarter 2008 financial results on Thursday, January 29,...