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12 hours ago ago from Music Education, Musician

The NEA Foundation Learning and Leading grants are provided to individuals to fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research and to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. Maximum Award: $2,000. Eligibility: K-12 public school teachers, public school ...

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20 hours ago ago from Seansandvik's Blog

A Closer Look on Daughter's Fertility Author: sean sandvik A new research study has found and identified a chemical pathway by which a mother's smoking before and after pregnancy might reduce her daughter's fertility by as much as two thirds. As we all know, cigarette smoking during pregnancy is a definite no-no, and has been shown in retrospective studies to affect the fertility of a woman's offspring. But this would be the first study ...

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4 hours ago ago from From Animal To Meat

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5 hours ago ago from Conservative Thoughts and Profundity

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