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• Teachers are a lot less enthusiastic about innovation than you think

  Patrick Gleeson Education

  A courageous teacher fights an unwieldy bureaucracy to introduce powerful new learning strategies. Recognize this? It's basically the plot of "Dangerous Minds," the movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer, a plot it shares with a lot of other heartwarming film and television dramas. But also — if you accept the results of an Education Week 2018 poll on teachers and innovation — it’s a storyline you're not that likely to find in real life. Teachers, it turns out, are less enthusiastic about innovation in education than you might think. It's actually their administrators who favor it.

• New drug testing rule targets applicants for unemployment benefits

  Grace Ferguson Civil & Government

  On Oct. 4, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor published a final rule giving states more freedom to expand the number of people who must pass drug tests in order to qualify for unemployment benefits. Those who fail the test would be disqualified from receiving unemployment assistance. Note that unemployment benefits are paid for by employer — and, in some states, employee — payroll taxes and are generally granted to employees who lose their job through no fault of their own. Before we explore the new rule, let's take a trip down memory lane.

• Board meetings: From pipeline to platform

  William D. Pawlucy and Robert C. Harris Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  We’ve all used the term "pipeline." Most often, we use it when the association board asks, "Do we have enough future leaders in the pipeline to sustain our volunteer structure of board and committees?" The leadership pipeline for volunteers include the processes of identification, assessment, training, election or appointment, role fulfillment and succession. The processes must be taken in order to maximize volunteer impact. The pipeline is somewhat rigid. Often it ends with volunteer burnout or a sense of, "I’m out, I’ve done my civic duty."

• What’s trending this time of year? In a word, words

  Bob Kowalski Marketing

  As a new year starts, you’ve heard about plenty "of-the-years." They must be important. They get so much airtime and are shared ceaselessly on social media, a lot of times by the very brands that are being honored. Besides the newsmakers of the year, a few other off-the-beaten-path declarations make the media rounds. We apparently talk a lot, so much so that we have more than one Word of the Year. Or should that be "words" of the year? At least three dominant sources provide us the Word of the Year, but they don't agree on what it is. For one of them, the Word of the Year is actually "words."

• How diet influences macular degeneration

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  The risk of irreversible age-related macular degeneration (AMD) increases with age. About 10 million people have reduced vision due to AMD in the U.S. The disease is most common among older white Americans, affecting more than 14% of white Americans age 80 and older. The causes of AMD are complex, but smoking, abdominal weight, unchecked cardiovascular disease, and hypertension increase the risk. Recent research suggests that a diet high in consumption of red and processed meat, fried food, refined grains, and high-fat dairy also may be a risk factor for developing late AMD.

• A look at marijuana policing trends and why they matter

  Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Some say that there is a generational war over American cannabis laws going on right now. While many states have legalized marijuana and cannabis-based businesses are flourishing, there are instances of illegal pot causing havoc around the country. In recent news from California, the city of Rancho Cordova and Sacramento County underwent a massive crackdown on illegal marijuana operations that hurt legal cannabis businesses. The pot police, as these investigators are colloquially termed, have seized over 3,100 marijuana plants in Rancho Cordova alone.

• Are business travelers traveling too much?

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  While it is not news that frequent travel can be bad for your health, studies by global corporate travel management company CWT find that the psychological effects can be just as disconcerting as the physical erosion. Independent research commissioned by CWT has revealed that the concerns most frequent travelers have about their lives and lifestyles should be addressed. The two biggest worries that affect frequent business travelers around the world are home life deterioration and putting pressure on colleagues.

• Credit where credit is due

  Anne Rose Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  I recently heard an accurate assessment of lazy people: they are always sticking their names on someone else's work. This occurs frequently in numerous situations: the politician's proposed legislation, prominent with his name but written by his unnamed staff. Or, the academic whose name is credited on the front page of the peer-reviewed journals is actually indebted to unnamed underlings who did the bulk of the study. This is really common in work settings where "work" is defined as the result of some committee.

• Diminishing bug populations may cause ecological ‘collapse’

  Dave G. Houser Waste Management & Environmental

  We have a major bug problem — and ironically it is the bugs, not we humans, that are threatened. The first global scientific review of insect populations published last February in the U.K. reveals that insect population declines around the world threaten to cause a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems." A follow-up report last November in the journal Biological Conservation concluded, "Insects around the world are rapidly declining. Their absence would have devastating consequences for life on the planet."

• As 2020 begins, news from the Arctic offers scant environmental hope

  Michelle R. Matisons Waste Management & Environmental

  The late 2019 Madrid U.N. Climate Summit didn’t offer much in the way of good news regarding international consensus on climate goals. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has also produced its annual report on the Arctic that does not bode well for the future, as a major climate date, the year 2020, is now here. There's perhaps no better litmus test for climate health than Arctic ice, which is melting at a pace that concerns more than just scientists and climate change activists.

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