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The article focuses on recent discussions about handling conflicts and controversies in schools, emphasizing the need for effective strategies to address them. Topics include the increasing debate on managing political and societal issues in education, the exploration of various approaches to handling conflicts and disturbances in the classroom, and the challenges of maintaining neutrality and addressing controversial topics within the educational framework.

The article offers information on the development and promotion of critical thinking in educational settings, highlighting its relative absence in German schools despite its presence in international discussions and documents. Topics include the reasons for this neglect; the definition and significance of critical thinking, encompassing self-directed, rational, skeptical, and habitual thinking; and the foundational questions of critical thinking.

The article delves into the emergence and implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, particularly focusing on the advent of tools like ChatGPT-3 by OpenAI and its potential impact on teaching and learning methodologies. It reflects on the rapid advancements in AI technology, addressing various applications ranging from personalized learning to automated grading systems.

The article discusses the importance of life and everyday competencies in the context of modern education. It emphasizes the need to complement traditional academic subjects with life and everyday skills. It is further reported that life skills are described as psychosocial abilities that empower children and adolescents to navigate the challenges of daily life successfully and engage effectively with others.

Following the relaxation and eventual withdrawal of anti-COVID-19 measures, there has been a dramatic increase in acute respiratory infections worldwide. Next to Influenza A and B virus, the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) plays a leading role as a causative agent. In infants, acute RSV infections were responsible for severe disease manifestations during the recent winter season, causing an unforeseen number of physician contacts and hospital admissions. Quick laboratory diagnosis is important to recognize clinically relevant respiratory pathogens. Due to the relevance of RSV, the German Federal Government has established compulsory notification of positive RSV tests in 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the need to reconsider the culture of examinations in education. Topics include perspectives on examinations with the limitations of traditional justifications for examinations in the context of digitalization; and information on alternative formats, such as digital and learner-centered approaches, should be considered to promote students' potentials, well-being, and career readiness in the 21st century.

Minute plastic particles may enter the human body through the intestinal tract or the air. An international research group examined whether such particles occur in arteriosclerotic vascular lesions. In their study on persons undergoing carotid artery sur - gery, they found plastic particles in 150 out of 257 (58.3 %) ex - cised lesions. Patients with plastic in their lesions had a 4.5-fold higher risk of developing negative cardiovascular events in the following 33 months compared to plastic-negative patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview is presented with the author Margrit Stamm. Topics discussed include changes in family upbringing in recent years; positive effects of commitment or promotion orientation on educational psychology; and different behavior and actions in relation to the sexes when it comes to becoming self-employed.

The article focuses on self-regulation in educational psychology. It mentions about its advantages for learning strategies for memorizing, repeating, deepening and linking new knowledge, planning and monitoring one's own learning, and maintaining motivation and effort and perseverance in achieving goals over a longer period of time.

The article discusses the technical losses in learning progress on the one hand and as psychosocial changes in children and young people during the Covid-19 pandemic created learning gaps. It offers information on non-representative surveys of teachers, school management and advisory services with loss of prosocial skills among schoolchildren.

The question arises as to whether there may be poorer and delayed care for complex diseases in the clinics at the weekend. Above all, it is discussed whether sepsis patients who are admitted at the weekend have a worse overall prognosis as a result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the impact of educational digitization and technology on the educational objectives and achieve individually tailored pedagogy. It explore the importance of educational technology related pedagogical content of knowledge for effective teaching. It mentions benefits of individualized teaching by use of several technologies such as learning platforms and digital textbooks.

Starting in 2013, various scientific journals reported an unusual international outbreak of infections. Cardiosurgical patients who had undergone open heart surgery developed chronic inflamma - tion of heart valve, adjacent heart muscle and other structures. The causative agent was identified as Mycobacterium chimaera, a non-tuberculous Mycobacterium. First thought to be rare, it was later identified as a frequent colonizer of water systems. 10 years after the first description, new cases still occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]