Flat World Knowledge, Publisher of Open Source Textbooks, Secures $700,000 in Funding.
Expands Sales and Marketing Efforts in Preparation for Nationwide Commercial Launch in 2009 NYACK, N.Y., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Flat World Knowledge, a publisher of open-source college textbooks, today announced the completion of a $700,000 funding round, bringing total funding to date to $1.4 million. The new...

Wolters Kluwer Health Completes Acquisition of UpToDate.
UpToDate Expands Wolters Kluwer Health's Point of Care Portfolio CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry, today announced it has completed the...

Author makes the complex compelling; Gloria Parkinson recently honored for medical writing.
Byline: John Weeks CLINTON - Gloria Parkinson's job is to write about complex medical science information in a compelling way, thus allowing the average reader to gain useful knowledge that will help him or her discuss medical concerns with doctors. Now, she has been honored for her...

Everyone reads at Bookshare.org!
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Kim Brown found that her young son needed special education instruction at school, she took the skills she learned in the software industry and began researching technology tools for the classroom. Brown even adapted business software such as PowerPoint to help her son visualize...

Evaluation of the effectiveness of an early literacy program for students with significant developmental disabilities.
For the last 2 decades, educators have placed strong emphasis on teaching students to read using scientifically based interventions, implemented through the federal government's Reading First initiative and defined in research synthesis reports (Adams, 1990; National Institute for Literacy, 2001). These reports provide converging evidence that learning to read...

Response to Alan L. Berger.
I write in great appreciation of my friend Alan Berger's fine article on Mel Gibson's Passion and Catholic-Jewish relations, (1) which well represents the Jewish side of the controversy--and I write in the midst of yet another crisis in the relationship, one I believe more serious in its implications...

DEALS.
Byline: The Register-Guard Lunar Logic executive buys firm from founder Mark Lipson Todd Edman, formerly Lunar Logic's chief operating officer, bought the company from its founder Mark Lipson. The terms of the sale were not disclosed. Edman bought Lunar Logic's assets,...

Modern school mathematics.
There was much enthusiasm when the phrase "Modern School Mathematics" was coined shortly after the 1958 National Defense Education Act was passed. Many federally funded study groups such as the The Greater Cleveland Mathematics Project, The School Mathematics Study Group, as well as the The University of Illinois Arithmetic...

Definitions of insanity in college students.
The legal concept of insanity has had many definitions throughout the years, and the precise definition used is critical in determining the status of a person in the legal system. Past research has demonstrated that different professions working in the legal system cannot agree on the definition of insanity...

LeapFrog Unveils the 'Crammer'.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-8 October 2008-LeapFrog Unveils the 'Crammer'(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Kids can now study using a new pocket-sized device from LeapFrog Enterprises, a developer of technology-based learning products. The company announced that the Crammer Study & Sound System, a homework and study device for...