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To attract more prospective SLPs to graduate programs--and fill local schools' needs for more SLPs--some education agencies and universities are collaborating to cover tuition in exchange for students committing to work in their schools. Other efforts focus on making it easier for prospective SLPs to attend graduate school while working full time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the increasing use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT among students and professionals, highlighting their popularity and the challenges in detecting AI-generated content. Topics include the rise of AI tools in educational settings, difficulties in distinguishing AI-written work from human-authored texts, and the ongoing debates about the implications for academic integrity and detection methods.

Field of Dreams: Selldorf ArchitectsÕ airy new Mwabwindo School bolsters the 14+ Foundation's educational network in rural Zambia Asked the architect Annabelle Selldorf if she would consider designing a primary school in rural Zambia for his nonprofit, the 14+ Foundation, she remembers replying, "Hello? To that end, Selldorf -- who visited the site during construction -- is now designing student housing for Mwabwindo. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses what libraries learned about community needs during the pandemic. Topics covered include the practice of curbside pickup of books and other materials which had lessened in 2022, the continuing availability of parking lot Wi-Fi from libraries, the addition of digital materials, schools' continuing bookmobile journey, and analog adoption in rural areas. Also noted are schools' automation of their 3D-printing operations.

The article discusses the court case Perez v. Sturgis Public School which shows how Miguel Perez, a child with an individualized education program (IEP), can be overlooked that gaps in service-delivery systems and can result in long-term harm for children with disabilities. Topics include the failure of the school district to provide Perez with a free appropriate public education (FAPE), case details, and lessons learned from the case.

The article discusses things that should be considered before going to a library school. Topics covered include assumption of many book lovers on library school, the need of people who decide on library school to continue to pursue work in libraries, and reason that many students opt for nearby schools.

The article discusses the benefits of the partnerships between local schools and public libraries in the U.S. Topics include Harlandale Independent School District (ISD), Texas as the first local system to partner with San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) on the Sora program, evolution of Baker & Taylor's Community Sharing Program, and the Sora partnerships launched by Fresno County Public Library (FCPL) in California with the Fresno, Central, and Selma Unified School Districts (USD).

The article reviews the architectural design of the IGS Kalbach-Riedberg middle school in Frankfurt, Germany, designed by the firm NKBAK architects.

The article evaluates the design of a school building at the Charter Oak Elementary school in West Hartford, Connecticut, by the firm Perkins Eastman.

The article evaluates the architectural design of the Groupe Scolaire Louis de Vion school complex in Montévrain, France, designed by the firm AAVP.

The article presents an interview with Diana Haneski, library media specialist at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDHS) in Parkland, Florida. Among the issues she discussed include how her survival from the February 2018 mass shooting at MSDHS led her to implementing initiatives aimed at supporting students' emotional recovery, the significance of River, a Bernedoodle and therapy dog, to the library, and how she helped transformed the library into a student relaxation area.

The article discusses ways academic librarians can support authors who hold marginalize identities. Topics include the need for librarians to know how systematic racism is embedded in publishing and how they are complicit, including academic publishing in library's information literacy offerings, and the reliance of many small open access publishers on volunteers to take on copyediting, typesetting, and publication management responsibilities.

Problem/Condition: Commercial tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States. Most tobacco product use begins during adolescence. In recent years, tobacco products have evolved to include various combusted, smokeless, and electronic products. Period Covered: 2021. Description of System: The National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is an annual, cross-sectional, school-based, self-administered survey of U.S. middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) students. A three-stage cluster sampling procedure is used to generate a nationally representative sample of U.S. students attending public and private schools. NYTS is the only nationally representative survey of U.S. middle and high school students that focuses exclusively on tobacco use patterns and associated factors. NYTS provides data to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive youth tobacco use prevention and control programs and to guide tobacco regulatory activities. Since 2019, NYTS has been administered electronically via tablet computers. Because of emergency COVID-19 protocols that were in place across the United States during the 2021 NYTS fielding window (January 18-May 21, 2021), the 2021 survey was administered using a web URL to allow participation by eligible students learning under varying instructional models (in-person, distance/virtual, and hybrid). In total, 50.8% of student respondents reported completing the survey in a school building or classroom and 49.2% at home or some other place. CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analyzed data from the 2021 NYTS to assess tobacco product use patterns and associated factors among U.S. middle and high school students. Overall, 20,413 students (out of 25,149 sampled students; student response rate: 81.2%) completed the questionnaire from 279 schools (out of 508 sampled schools; school response rate: 54.9%). The overall response rate, defined as the product of the student and school response rates, was 44.6%. The sample was weighted to represent approximately 11.97 million middle school students and 15.44 million high school students. Students with missing information about grade level were excluded from the school-level analyses (n = 135). Results: In 2021, an estimated 34.0% of high school students (5.22 million) and 11.3% of middle school students (1.34 million) reported ever using a tobacco product (i.e., electronic cigarettes [e-cigarettes], cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, hookahs, pipe tobacco, heated tobacco products, nicotine pouches, and bidis [small brown cigarettes wrapped in a leaf ]). Current (past 30-day) use of a tobacco product was 13.4% for high school students (2.06 million) and 4.0% for middle school students (470,000). E-cigarettes were the most commonly currently used tobacco product, cited by 11.3% of high school students (1.72 million) and 2.8% of middle school students (320,000), followed by cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, hookahs, nicotine pouches, heated tobacco products, and pipe tobacco. Current use of any tobacco product was reported by 14.2% of students identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) (versus 7.9% of heterosexual); 18.9% of students identifying as transgender (versus 8.2% of not transgender); and 14.2% of students reporting severe psychological distress (versus 5.5% with no distress). Among students who currently used each respective tobacco product, frequent use (on ≥20 days of the past 30 days) ranged from 17.2% for nicotine pouches to 39.4% for e-cigarettes. Among current users of any tobacco product, 79.1% reported using a flavored tobacco product; by product, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used flavored tobacco product. Among current users of any tobacco product, the most commonly reported source of access was from a friend (32.8%). Among students who currently used e-cigarettes, 53.7% used a disposable device, 28.7% used a prefilled/refillable pod or cartridge device, 9.0% used a tank or mod system (a system that can be customized by the user), and 8.6% did not know the device type. Among students who had ever used e-cigarettes, the most common reason for first trying them was "a friend used them" (57.8%); among current e-cigarette users, the most commonly cited reason for current use was "I am feeling anxious, stressed, or depressed" (43.4%). Among all middle and high school students, 75.2% reported past-year recognition of any antitobacco public education campaign ads. Exposure to marketing or advertising for any tobacco product was reported by 75.7% of students who had contact with an assessed potential source of tobacco product advertisements or promotions (going to a convenience store, supermarket, or gas station; using the Internet; watching television or streaming services or going to the movies; or reading newspapers or magazines). Among students who reported using social media, 73.5% had ever seen e-cigarette-related content. Among all students, perceiving "no" or "little" harm from intermittent tobacco product use was highest for e-cigarettes (16.6%) and lowest for cigarettes (9.6%). Among students who currently used any tobacco product, 27.2% had experienced cravings during the past 30 days; 19.5% reported wanting to use a tobacco product within 30 minutes of waking. Moreover, 65.3% of students who currently used tobacco products were seriously thinking about quitting the use of all products, and 60.2% had stopped using all products for ≥1 day because they were trying to quit during the past 12 months. Interpretation: In 2021, approximately one in 10 U.S. middle and high school students (9.3%) had used a tobacco product during the preceding 30 days. By school level, this represented more than one in eight high school students (13.4%) and approximately one in 25 middle school students (4.0%). E-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product in 2021. Tobacco product use was higher among certain subpopulations, such as those identifying as LGB or transgender, or those reporting psychological distress. Importantly, approximately two thirds of students who currently used tobacco products were seriously thinking about quitting. However, factors that might continue to promote tobacco product use among U.S. youths, such as the availability of flavors, access to tobacco products, exposure to tobacco product marketing, and misperceptions about harm from tobacco product use, remained prevalent in 2021. Public Health Action: The continued monitoring of all forms of youth tobacco product use and associated factors through surveillance efforts including NYTS is important to the development of public health policy and action at national, state, and local levels. The 2021 NYTS was successfully administered during the COVID-19 pandemic using a web URL to allow participation by eligible students learning under varying instructional models. As a result of these modifications to the fielding procedures, any comparison of results between 2021 NYTS findings with previous years, including the direct attribution of any potential changes in tobacco product use, is not possible. Parents, educators, youth advocates, and health care providers can help protect youths from the harms of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. In addition, the comprehensive and sustained implementation of evidence-based tobacco control strategies, combined with FDA's regulation of tobacco products, is important for reducing all forms of tobacco product use among U.S. youths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An architectural review is presented for the Garden School in Beijing, China designed by the firm OPEN Architecture.

An architectural review is presented for the Ergolding School in Ergolding, Germany designed by the firms Behnisch Architects and Leinhäupl and Neuber.

The article addresses preparations made by school leaders in the U.S. to support special education staff and students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include factors that decision-makers must consider to safely bring students and staff together in the same building, remarks from Dawn Merth-Johnson, a speech-language pathologist in Wisconsin, and technology support as the main focus for JoAnn Wiechmann, executive director of the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School Distrct.

The article informs about extensive preplanning, effective communication, and the ability to innovate drove Hoar Construction and JonesDBR to complete the Aston Hall project at Texas A&M University in 11 weeks. It mentions that arms race among universities to provide first-class facilities and amenities that will attract students and faculty to campus continues to escalate. It also informs that specific knowledge of the applications and fundamentals needed for renovation or expansion projects.

"Apart from the excitement of seeing so many people using it", Della Rocca continúes, 'the MAXXI pavilion taught us the beauty of repurposing simple technologies and humble materials into lively designs.' In 2016, Della Rocca and Bottero started up their own practice, BDR Bureau, whose first realised project was the refurbishment of a small apartment in the centre of Turin. PHOTO (COLOR): In Della Rocca's first built scheme (opposite), the refurbishment of a small apartment in Turin, a yellow curtain on a circular railing was incorporated to block off part of the dining room should a guest require to sleep there. [Extracted from the article]

Controversy surrounds the UK government's Priority School Building Programme, including claims that it is underspending and delayed, and that the schools it has produced are, due to significantly tightened budgets, inferior to those provided under the preceding Building Schools for the Future scheme. In 2013, he was joined by Jennifer O'Donnell to form the practice O'Donnell Brown. [Extracted from the article]

The article talks about the launch of the 2020 U.S. Census on April 1, 2020, which will be the first conducted primarily online and libraries stand to play a major role in helping provide internet access and information to assure an equitable and accurate count. It mentions the opportunities for libraries to get involved in Census. It also mentions that decennial census determines everything from federal representation along with funding to the distribution of free school lunches and libraries.

The article offers a directory of library schools in the United States. Addresses, contact information and degree programs are included.

Presents a directory of universities and colleges that offer degrees in library science.

Lists accredited aerospace and aviation schools in the world. Enumeration of universities in Eastern and Southern America; Citation of web sites of each school; Specific locations of aerospace colleges in Canada and Europe.

Presents a critique of the architectural design of the Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University in New York City, New York. Connection of buildings using ramp system; Ramp-and-glass-wall assembly; Imitation of older building details; Choice of colors; Conflicts in contextualism.

Discusses how New York City's Bank Street School for Children created a reading database. Focus on making a suggested reading list; Use of the data management program Personal File System; How the students created a database so they could search for reading suggestions; Advantages and limitations; The file contents.

Presents designs by four New York City firms who were each commissioned to design one flexible, modular prototype school building that will be reconfigured for three different sites. Gruzen Samton Steinglass, Perkins and Will, The Ehrenkrantz Group & Eckstut, and Richard Dattner; The Prototype School Program.

Provides information on the architectural design of the Wray School in Wray, Colorado. Comments on the materials used in the establishment of the school; Description of the facilities of the institution; Impact of the location on the structure of the buildings of the school.

In this article, the author talks about how on she became the fourteenth employee, and first librarian, to start work at privately owned, Charlotte School of Law, North Carolina. Topics include how Charlotte School of Law achieved full American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation on June 10, 2011, which was 18 months after her departure; and how she helped hire and train six staff members and supervised two collection moves: the Mecklenburg County Law and Government Library collection.

The author shares how and why she runs a private speech-language pathology practice, which features puberty and sex education for people with communication, cognitive or developmental disabilities, as a side career. She discusses her goals to help neurodiverse students understand sexuality, relationships and relates social mores. She explains her approach to balancing her full-time work in schools as a speech language pathologist and private company given the risks of conflict of interest.

The article discusses about the trend of banning of books, which occurred not long after the first book was published. Topics discussed include the increasing numbers and disturbing trends of book bans, as documented by PEN America and ALA; the Index of School Book Bans, which is a detailed study of recent book bans in U.S. schools and school libraries, and several insights from the index of school book bans.

Unprecedented is an often over-used description, but never has it been better applied than now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors discuss the issue of converting nonlibrary spaces to create new library buildings. They mention the positive and negative aspects of using an existing building, the kinds of buildings that might be possible candidates for conversion, and experts to consult when considering accepting a specific building.

The article features Alistair Shuttleworth, a project manager for Portakabin Ltd. in England. Noted is his role on building a temporary school for the pupils of Kensington Aldridge Academy (KAA) who were survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. Mentioned is the installment of modular buildings for the KAA2 project.

Focuses on the renovation of the Little Red School House, a boarding school in New York, New York. Addition of a library at the facility; Involvement of 1100 Architect in the project; Presentation of the architectural details of the school.

The article considers picture books as means to bring community together and strengthen school culture. Topics discussed include examples of the titles selected throughout the years for the Book-of-the-Month program, information on the books that have been the most influential, and recommendation for a school or library that is interested in launching a similar book-of-the-month program.

Discusses the design approaches used in the building addition and site improvement for the Far Hills Country Day School in Far Hills, New Jersey. White exteriors and louvers on building's side; Arcaded entrance; Improvement of parking and traffic pattern; Landscaping and utilities work; Upper School building addition; Renovation of Lower School building.

The article features the career of Kym Meyer as the director for public school partnerships at the Learning Center for the Deaf (TLC) in Framingham, Massachusetts. Meyer joined the school as an educational audiologist in 1994. She continues to promote the profession of educational audiology and its place in schools. She shared the challenges she encountered in the profession, including making sure school districts remember that the school can provide the necessary services for students.

The article presents questions and answers related to pseudoscience, including possible reasons why school administrators support pseudoscientific claims, strategies that audiologists and speech-language pathologists may use to counter these claims, and the prevention of misinformation.

The article reports that the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) started its annual convention prior to the AGG1 show in Indianapolis. Topics discussed include the needs for a collective commitment and bipartisan compromise for making investment required for the U.S. economy, technological innovations on solving technical issues, and the need for schools and hospitals to be built by NSSGA materials to serve their communities.

Focuses on the amount of money spent in the repair and construction of schools and K-12 facilities in the 1990s. Factors which influence the rate at which repairs are made to facilities; Information on a study conducted by the United States Department of Education.

The article focuses on the popularity of comics and graphic novels in the educational market in the U.S. since the last decade. Topics covered include the stronger foothold of graphic novels in school libraries and classrooms, how the exploration by teacher of new ideas in teaching has led them to different formats of media, including graphic novels, and graphic novels as a go-tool for teachers and librarians in engaging reluctant or struggling readers.

The article reports on the development of the Heads Up Concussion in Youth Sports initiative by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Heads Up offers information to sports teams, schools and parents to help in preventing concussions and distinguish when a child has suffered from a concussion. Information about what treatment to seek as well as return-to-play and return-to-learning guidelines.

The article showcases pictures and floor plans of Braamcamp Freire School which is designed by CYDB (Cristina Verissimo and Diogo Burnay) Arquitectos and constructed on previous historical layers that is located in Pontinha, Lisbon.

The article discusses projects to improve both green spaces and pedestrian access between different parts of town. It mentions "national comms campaign" to raise local government's profile, alongside going into schools to talk to young people from an early age about the opportunities of a career in local government.

The article describes efforts by U.S. schools to address social and emotional learning according to several teachers and librarians. Saugatuck Elementary in Westport, Connecticut, has adopted the RULER social and emotional learning program from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Wilson West Middle School in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, provides social and emotional literacy lessons that focus on young adolescent concerns.

The author reflects on a conference held in Omaha, Nebraska on May 10-12, 2018 which discussed how to foster more literacy-rich communities through alliances between public libraries and schools. The event was developed by the periodical "Library Journal" and sister publication "School Library Journal" with Omaha Public Schools and the Omaha Public Library. The common goal of cities involved in the partnerships of schools and libraries is mentioned.

An introduction is presented to a series of articles on school architecture and design published in the same issue of the journal.