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• The needless struggles of struggling readers: Tutoring

  Howard Margolis Education

  For reading instruction to effectively capitalize on struggling readers’ (SRs) abilities to remediate their academic and social-emotional difficulties, schools must fully and accurately identify their abilities and difficulties. Doing so is often far easier said than done. It requires updated knowledge about the complexity of reading and writing as well as the research on effective interventions. Knowledge, however, is not enough. It also requires the ability to successfully put such research into practice.

• Texas’ bighorn license plate boosts more than funding

  Chester Moore Jr. Recreation & Leisure

  The desert bighorn sheep is now officially a celebrity in Texas. A new conservation license plate features a stunning bighorn image. Those who purchase it for $30 get the satisfaction of knowing $22 goes directly to sheep conservation efforts of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). The new plate design is a first for TPWD. "Our longtime plate artist, Clemente Guzman, retired, so we decided to use a photograph of a majestic bighorn sheep proudly looking into the desert — and perhaps its future," said Janis Johnson with the TPWD Conservation License Plate program.

• US economy adds 75,000 jobs; unemployment rate stays at 3.6%

  Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The May jobs report shows that nonfarm payroll employment rose 75,000 following 263,000 new hires in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. May’s rate of unemployment stayed at 3.6%. Is May’s drop in job creation a sign of a slowing economy? "One month doesn’t make a trend," according to Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, hourly wages barely rose in May.

• 6 excuses executives give when they can’t find talent

  Roberta Matuson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Is it just me or is anyone else tired of the excuses executives give when they can’t find talent? This article includes six of my favorites. For example, one I hear is, "there are no people out there." Really? Then explain to me why your competitor has people lining up outside her door waiting to work for her? There are plenty of people who are willing and ready to work. You have to be worthy of having them. Are you? If not, what can you do to change this?

• Fixing those inevitable mistakes

  Anne Rose Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The issue isn’t whether we make mistakes. We all make mistakes, some more frequently than others, and some mistakes more critical than others. The issue is: when you do fix them? Or is it safe to ignore the "little" mistakes? As a service provider, I hate making mistakes that will impact my clients’ expectations; even if those mistakes aren’t catastrophic, they nevertheless diminish my reputation and professionalism in my clients’ eyes.

• 3 ways knowing how to break the rules makes you a better leader

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The best part of any ethics class I teach — for me at least — is telling the students to try to get away with something. The assignment asks them to pick an ethical dilemma previously presented by one of their classmates and then, in as much detail as possible, explain how they would work around the rules to accomplish the desired, unethical outcome. While the activities vary, there is one thing that is consistent at every school and in any class within which this is assigned: my best students are also the best at breaking the rules. Here are three ways knowing how to break the rules also makes you a better leader.

• Report: Millennial workers 5 times more likely to seriously consider suicide…

  Terri Williams Mental Healthcare

  Millennial workers are different from their older workplace counterparts in a variety of ways. However, one difference in particular is cause for alarm. According to a recent report by Catapult Health, millennials are more likely to be depressed and more likely to consider suicide than other generations in the workforce. The report, "Depression and the American Workplace," is based on an analysis of over 150,000 preventive health checkups that Catapult Health conducted in the past year in various workplace settings around the country.

• Healthcare providers on the brink

  Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

  No one in their right mind would argue that healthcare careers aren’t stressful. Burnout, depression, stress-based illness, and even suicide are common in certain populations of healthcare workers. If our nation and the world depend upon nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and other professionals to provide care that millions of patients require, why are we ignoring the stressors that cause healthcare providers to develop debilitating symptoms, abandon their careers, or even take their own lives?

• 6 simple ways to boost your hospital’s hand-washing compliance

  Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Your hospital staff knows that hand-washing is essential for reducing infection rates, but sometimes they may cut corners when it comes to compliance. Stress, fatigue, and high workloads can lead to your doctors, nurses and workers skipping proper and continual hygiene steps. Also, patients very rarely wash their hands when they're in bed — and their visitors almost never make it a practice to so, either. Yet, boosting compliance rates can be much easier than you think. Here are six surprising (and easy) ways to identify hygiene risk situations and quickly fix them to protect everyone in your care environment.

• Walmart joins worldwide effort to reduce its plastic consumption

  Scott E. Rupp Waste Management & Environmental

  The war on plastic continues. In April, the Oregon Senate approved a limited ban on plastic straws. Its passage would make the state the second after California to enact measures limiting single-use plastic straws. Several individual cities, including Seattle; New York City; and Portland, Oregon, have also implemented their own policies to curb plastic straw usage. Not to be outdone, retail giant Walmart announced a "bold" plastic waste reduction commitment by "leveraging its massive private brand program." In addition to reducing plastic packaging, it is doing away with plastic bags.

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