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• Morning-after pills available at 13 NYC schools
• New York City Public Schools Go to Plan B
• How Some Colleges Are Improving Black Graduation Rates
• Hunger University: Are College Students the New Face of Food Insecurity?
• College Students Get a Hand From Investors
• Kenyan teachers reach pay deal, end strike
• Readers Write: Grading teachers isn't enough; Teachers deserve useful evaluation and support.

Morning-after pills available at 13 NYC schools Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:51 PM PDT The New York City Department of Education is making the morning-after-pill available to high school girls at 13 public schools.

New York City Public Schools Go to Plan B Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT The New York City Department of Education has been stocking nurses' offices at 13 public high schools with Plan B, a "morning after" hormonal birth-control pill. The medication will be available free of charge to students as young as 14. No parental notification will be required for a girl to seek and be supplied with the emergency contraceptive.

How Some Colleges Are Improving Black Graduation Rates Posted: 24 Sep 2012 10:56 AM PDT While college-degree attainment for black students remains persistently low, some colleges and universities are implementing programs that are helping boost graduation rates, a new study shows.

Hunger University: Are College Students the New Face of Food Insecurity? Posted: 24 Sep 2012 08:58 AM PDT There's a startling new trend on college campuses, and it's sweeping the nation: hunger.

College Students Get a Hand From Investors Posted: 24 Sep 2012 08:43 AM PDT To pay tuition, students sell all kinds of things, from lattes at Starbucks to their own bodies (for medical trials). But Alex Jasiulek has sold--or mortgaged--something new: the 10 years of his life after graduation.

Kenyan teachers reach pay deal, end strike Posted: 24 Sep 2012 07:39 AM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan teachers have called off a strike for higher pay that started on September 3 after signing a deal with the government, their union said on Monday. Under the terms of the deal, public school teachers will get a pay rise of 5,250 shillings for the lowest paid, taking their pay to 19,000 shillings a month. The highest paid will get 142,000 shillings a month, a rise of 22,000 shillings. Unions had demanded between 100 and 300 percent pay rises. The deal leaves the government with an extra 20 billion shillings to find in the 2012/13 (July-June) fiscal year. ...

Readers Write: Grading teachers isn't enough; Teachers deserve useful evaluation and support. Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:39 AM PDT The Aug. 13 cover story, "The measure of a teacher," reminds us that too often the dialogue on teacher evaluation focuses on its potential for harm, rather than the benefits that good systems, infused with teacher buy-in, can bring.

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