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• Court: Ala can't check student immigration status
• Court blocks Alabama student citizenship checks
• Quick Study: Binge Drinking May Be the Most Depressing Road to Happiness for College Students
• Analysis: New studies weigh college value and cost
• Indiana public schools wage unusual ad campaign
• Wisconsin creates new teacher equivalency license
• A Fair Education? Military Kids Struggle With New Schools, Red Tape, and High Stress
• Despite the Possibility of College Debt, Having a Degree Is Still Better Than the Alternative
• Chicago teachers take contract case to schools
• Corinthian Colleges posts $6.5M fiscal 4Q loss
• Binge Drinking Apparently Makes College Students as Happy as Bros
• Old Cellphones Take On New Life For Soldiers Calling Home

Court: Ala can't check student immigration status Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:53 PM PDT Part of Alabama's immigration law that ordered public schools to check the citizenship status of new students was ruled unconstitutional Monday by a federal appeals court that also said police in that state and Georgia can demand papers from criminal suspects they have detained.

Court blocks Alabama student citizenship checks Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:43 PM PDT A federal appeals court has ruled that part of Alabama's tough immigration law that ordered public schools to check the citizenship status of new students is unconstitutional.

Quick Study: Binge Drinking May Be the Most Depressing Road to Happiness for College Students Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:10 PM PDT The study: Binge drinking could be how some college students achieve social satisfaction and happiness, a study finds. Researchers surveyed 1,595 students on a liberal arts campus in the Northeast to evaluate their drinking behavior, level of contentment, and place in the pecking order. They found that students who were female, poorer, of color, LGBTQ, didn't belong to fraternities or sororities and didn't binge drink had lower levels of social satisfaction than their peers who did binge drink.

Analysis: New studies weigh college value and cost Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:06 PM PDT Two new studies offer emphatic answers to much-discussed questions about higher education: Yes, a college degree is worth it, but yes, it's the middle-class that's getting particularly squeezed with student debt in the pursuit of one.

Indiana public schools wage unusual ad campaign Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:02 PM PDT Struggling Indiana public school districts are buying billboard space, airing radio ads and even sending principals door-to-door in an unusual marketing campaign aimed at persuading parents not to move their children to private schools as the nation's largest voucher program doubles in size.

Wisconsin creates new teacher equivalency license Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:16 PM PDT There's a new way for teachers to get licensed to work in Wisconsin's public schools.

A Fair Education? Military Kids Struggle With New Schools, Red Tape, and High Stress Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:58 AM PDT Children in military families often don't have good school experiences. That's because they are one of the country's most transient populations. The average student from a military family will attend schools in six to nine different school systems from kindergarten to their senior year. These kids often deal with emotional issues connected to their parents' deployments and stress from leaving old friends behind. Bureaucratic red tape in some districts prevents graduation, and a slow transfer of records also creates problems.The Department of Education states that more than 1. ...

Despite the Possibility of College Debt, Having a Degree Is Still Better Than the Alternative Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:59 AM PDT Workers with no college degree or higher education were the hardest hit during the economic recession that began in December 2007, according to a new study from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

Chicago teachers take contract case to schools Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:14 AM PDT The Chicago Teachers Union has begun informational pickets at several elementary schools to call attention to ongoing contract talks.

Corinthian Colleges posts $6.5M fiscal 4Q loss Posted: 20 Aug 2012 06:53 AM PDT For-profit education company Corinthian Colleges Inc. said Monday it posted a $6.5 million fiscal fourth-quarter loss, hurt by lower revenue and losses from discontinued operations.

Binge Drinking Apparently Makes College Students as Happy as Bros Posted: 20 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT A survey released at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver figured out that wealthy, white fraternity brothers are the "happiest" college students, but there's one great equalizer between them and the rest of the not as "happy" students: binge drinking. "I would guess it has to do with feeling like you belong and whether or not you're doing what a 'real' college student does," Colgate University's Carolyn Hsu, who authored the study, said in an interview with Livescience. ...

Old Cellphones Take On New Life For Soldiers Calling Home Posted: 19 Aug 2012 10:01 PM PDT DEAR ABBY: My son is a career soldier, Army Rangers Airborne, and yes, I am proud of him. During his 15 years of active duty he has been involved in every "action" around the world. The greatest gift I have been given started with an idea conceived by two high school students in Massachusetts. The program is called Cell Phones for Soldiers, and these are the basics:Old cellphones are donated and then sold to a recycler, and with that money phone cards are purchased and donated to soldiers all over the world. Eighty percent of calls home by active-duty soldiers are made using these cards. ...

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