Round-Up: Indiana Withdraws From Common Core, Teaching as a Second (Or Third

Round-up: Indiana withdraws from Common Core, teaching as a second (or third
Indiana becomes first state to withdraw from Common Core (AP): Indiana's legislature has approved a bill that removes the state from the Common Core standards and instead calls for the implementation of new benchmarks for students. Some critics are …
Read more on The Seattle Times (blog)

Vancouver: Giving junkies a fix to keep them off the street
There was the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) from 2005 to 2008, he says, and the Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME), in which he participated in 2013. Three times a day, Thompson explains, …
Read more on Al Jazeera America