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The Kentucky Professional Education Standards Board’s university-based alternative pathway to certification, known as Option 6, allows qualified teacher candidates to work in a full-time teaching position within a Kentucky school while enrolled in a participating teacher preparation program. Through this option, teacher candidates obtain a temporary provisional certificate valid for one year. ....
Tennessee Department of Education and Tennessee STEM Innovation Network announce $35,000 award to provide additional programming, resources for student opportunities. A three-year pursuit has paid off, and students at Christiana Middle School will reap the rewards. Christiana Middle School has been named the first Rutherford County STE(A)M-designated school. The Tennessee STEM Innovation Network and the Tennessee Department of Education Innovation made the announcement today at a . ....
Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the mushroom bodies (a part of the insect brain involved in learning, memory and sensory integration) of “primitive” sawflies and sophisticated honey bees. They found that three diverse, specialized Kenyon cell subtypes in honey bee brains appear to have evolved from a single, multifunctional Kenyon cell-subtype ancestor. In the future, this research could help us better understand the evolution of some of our own higher brain functions and behaviors. ....