Academy Group

Helping Schools Make the Grade; Green Dot is turning troubled public institutions into successful charter schools.(Organization overview)
U.S. News & World Report; 1/1/2010; 2031 words; ...the teachers were failing them. And I include myself in that group," Minix says. "At the time, many teachers didn't know...Locke Family of Schools, made up of eight small college-prep academies and one technical school. In the brief time since the Green...

TOP STORIES OF 2009: The year in review Special anniversaries, new school keep towns humming
Mundelein Review (IL); 12/31/2009; 1904 words; ...new job as president of the statewide children's advocacy group, Voices for Illinois Children.In September, local Democratic...Catholic middle school. The new school, named Frassati Catholic Academy, is planned to open in August 2010, Lewinski said, and will...

CRITICS' CHOICES
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 393 words; ...Mondays spend New Year's Eve twistin' your melon, man. Academy, Liverpool (0844 477 2000) Film choice Humpday Piquant mumblecore...art choice For the blind man in the dark room... Scattergun group show that's funny and clever in its incoherence. ICA, London...

In cancer-ridden rats, loneliness can kill.(Report)
NewsRx Health; 12/27/2009; 825 words; ...than rats living in a social group, according to researchers...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "There is a...triggered by being separated from a group. Stress is linked to many...tumors in rats that lived in groups or in isolation. Although...of tumors as those living in ...

Facebook and systems biologists take note: Network analysis reveals true connections.
NewsRx Health & Science; 12/27/2009; 982 words; ...that all networks have groups in them and those groups are connected in many...networks, ranging from a group of dolphins to a network...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS...can be classified into groups with the nodes connecting...other depending on their group ...