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In March 2018, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was appointed head of the Federal Commission on School Safety by President Donald Trump.The purpose of the commission was to improve student safety at school by providing plans and recommendations of action designed to meet specific needs, including a range of issues from social-emotional support, school safety infrastructure, and the ...
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) has worked with scientists, since 1981, to find new methods to replace the use of laboratory animals in experiments, reduce the number of animals tested, and refine necessary tests to eliminate pain and distress (the Three Rs as described in Russell and Burch's Principles of Humane Experimental Technique). [1]
Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) is a grant program funded by the United States Department of Education, United States Department of Justice, and United States Department of Health and Human Services that helps school districts, in partnership with mental health providers, law enforcement and juvenile justice agencies, implement projects that create safe and healthy schools and communities.
State-wide ordinances for school closures began on March 16, 2020, and by March 24, 2020, all states had closed schools until further notice. [2] In the interest of public health, school closures for the COVID-19 pandemic were used to curb transmission of the disease and encourage social distancing, much like in the past with Swine Flu and MRSA ...
The company raised a $30 million Series C in May 2020, bringing the company's post-money valuation to $1 billion. In the U.S., Quizlet is used by two in three high school students and one in two ...
The Safe Schools Declaration describes the immediate and long-term consequences of attacks on students, teachers, schools, and universities, and the military use of schools and universities, during times of armed conflict. It contrasts this with the positive and protective role that education can have during armed conflict.
Schools and universities have closed and in some form e-learning has developed. [27] Taiwan: Schools were closed in a two-week extension of holidays in spring 2020. In 2021, schools were closed from 19 May until the start of the new academic year on 1 September. This second period of nationwide closures was due to a spike in domestic COVID-19 ...
CK-12 was established in 2007 by Neeru Khosla and Murugan Pal as a not-for-profit educational organization. [5] Teacher-generated content was initially made available under Creative Commons Attribution licenses so as to make it simpler, easier, and more affordable for children to access educational resources.