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• How will you celebrate Inclusive Schools Week?

  Savanna Flakes Education

  Each year, during the first full week of December, schools across the nation take a moment to celebrate their progress in inclusive practices. Schools focus on their growth in promoting welcoming K-12 communities, embracing all students, and ensuring every student has an opportunity to learn, participate and contribute. As we embark on this week, commemorate your successes in effectively including students and look ahead for ways to challenge yourself to meet the ever-increasing needs in your classroom.

• Girls’ education — not just a third world problem

  Bambi Majumdar Education

  In celebrating the International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11, Dell announced plans to expand investment in STEM education for girls in underserved communities. In partnership with Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology, Dell will support a massive national after-school computer science educational program. This will lead to increase in materials and supplies for the STEM curriculum and offer students a wide exposure to technical organizations and the industry as a whole.

• Study: Retail clinics do not reduce trips to ED for minor ailments

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Healthcare officials hoped retail walk-in clinics would divert patients from hospital-based emergency departments. The findings of a new study have proved otherwise. The study, authored by researchers at the nonprofit group RAND Corporation was published online this month in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. It looked at 2,000 emergency departments in 23 states over a six-year period. When retail clinics opened nearby, there was no significant reduction in ED visits for 11 low-acuity illnesses like respiratory infections, urinary tract infections and earaches. Low-acuity illnesses make up about 13.7 percent of all ED visits.

• AHLA survey highlights 2017 hotel trends

  Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Earlier this month, the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) and Smith Travel Research (STR) released the "2016 Lodging Survey." The goal of this biennial survey is to provide a current and comprehensive understanding of hotel operations. Drawing from the findings, hoteliers with a futuristic mindset may also be able to identify the critical travel trends heading into 2017.

• Surgeon general addresses opioid addiction crisis

  Dorothy L. Tengler Mental Healthcare

  Doctors most often prescribe opioids to relieve pain from toothaches and dental procedures, injuries, surgeries and chronic conditions such as cancer. Opioids usually are safe when they are used correctly, but people who misuse opioids can easily become addicted.

• Tweet the mission statement

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  Every association has one — a reason for existence. It is expressed as a mission statement or a statement of purpose. For organizations filing IRS Form 990 annually, the statement is included on page one. Through time mission statements tend to accumulate clutter. What started out as the purpose of the organization gets weighed down by inserting priorities, adding values and expanding to include narrative.

• Want to grow your nursing career? Join a workplace committee

  Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

  ​Busy, hard-working nurses may not readily acknowledge that membership in a workplace committee is a strategy for nursing career growth and professional development. However, committee work can lead to many positive outcomes for nurses seeking a novel way to dig deeper into their career trajectory and involvement in healthcare leadership.

• Reclaim your time from the co‑workers who waste it

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  What is more frustrating than staying late in the office to get something done only to have your co-worker swing by with a full coffee and plant herself at your desk? Or perhaps it is yet another meeting with your boss about how to improve time management and increase efficiency?

• San Francisco may have found a solution to its noisy approach paths

  Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & Automotive

  Residents of areas under controversial new approach paths to San Francisco International Airport have been awaiting the outcome of meetings aimed at relieving the constant noise from aircraft. But will the decision made last week simply relocate the problem to other neighborhoods?

• When will self-driving cars become the norm?

  Robert Gordon Science & Technology

  The hardest part of vehicle safety is to ensure the person behind the wheel is at his or her best while driving. Human error continues to be a significant factor in traffic fatalities. Experienced drivers have been shown to be safer drivers who make fewer errors in judgment than younger drivers, but experience is not the only factor. Issues such as fatigue, emotional distress, distractions and more cause even the most experienced driver to have a lapse in judgment.

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