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In a multicenter clinical trial, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that higher doses of stereotactic radiation therapy requiring fewer treatments are safe and effective for patients with low-to-intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

Results of the trial, available in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), which delivers ultra-precise radiation, was effective in treating patients with localized prostate cancer in five 30-minute sessions every other day over two weeks. That compares to the typical radiation protocol for prostate cancer of 42 to 45 daily treatments administered over eight to nine weeks. Read full post…

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The Colorado Commission on Higher Education Friday got an update on some changes in senior management at the Department of Higher Education.

During the half-hour conference call meeting, Deputy Executive Director Matt Gianneschi told commissioners that Chief Academic Officer Cheryl Lovell will be leaving the department July 1. Before joining the department Lovell was a professor at the University of Denver. She’s been significantly involved in working with the Department of Education on implementation of the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids law.

Inta Morris, assistant director of interdepartmental affairs, is becoming senior director for grants and special projects, and Special Assistant Kim Poast is becoming associate deputy director for access and student services. M

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Exposing deaf or hard of hearing children to signed or spoken language early is critical to their ability to learn a language. That’s one of the findings of a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

But there are some obstacles to providing quality early intervention for all children with hearing problems as well as determining whether those programs are effective.

One of those challenges is that early intervention service providers and schools have trouble attracting and retaining qualified staff. Schools and service providers have difficulty retaining teachers, interpreters, and other staff because these professionals can receive better pay outside of the education system.

The report comes on the heels of the renewal of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program in December.

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The report, from the National Center on Education and the Economy, sets out an agenda for improving American schools based on efforts undertaken in those countries whose students score the highest on international assessments.

Among the steps: less frequent standardized testing and a greater emphasis on the professionalization of teaching.

“We’ve been unwilling to pay teachers at the level of engineers, Marc Tucker, NCEE president, told Education Week. We’ve been solving our problems of teacher shortages by waiving the very low standards that we have. We ha

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