A barcode for fungi has been published in PNAS - part of the activity of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBoL). Schoch, C.L. et al. (2012) Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi PNAS 2012 109 (16) 6241-6246; published ahead of print March 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117018109
The US National Academies' Press has just released A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Interesting parallel to the UK exercise on reviewing the National Curriculum for England. The direction of the UK review is opaque, but some interesting input views expressed on the Science Council website, especially from SCORE. It seems that international comparisons are being made in some way, but which and how is unclear.
