Infections in the nose and sinuses also can cause sore throats, because mucus from the nose drains down into the throat and carries the infection with it. The most dangerous throat infection is epiglottitis, which infects a portion of the larynx (voice box) and causes swelling that closes the airway.
Next Generation Science Standards. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Next Generation Science Standards is a multi-state effort to create new education standards that are rich in content and practice, arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an internationally benchmarked science education..
The intent of the NGSS is to focus on a smaller, more teachable number of disciplinary core ideas that students should know by the time they graduate from 12th grade. It is important that the focus be put on the core ideas, rather than the countless number of facts and details associated with them. It is also important to recognize that the core ideas called for in the NGSS are more demanding than the content in many state science standards.