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• Argentine teachers' strike delays school year
• Energy drinks linked to risky behaviors among teens
• Asbestos poisoning victims want Yale honor revoked
• Federal Regulators Eye Parent PLUS Loans, Student Debit Cards
• Victims protest Swiss man's honorary Yale degree
• Yale caught up in dispute over honorary degree
• Judge keeps alive suit challenging California teacher tenure laws
• The Benefits of Connecting Kids With Autism to Social Media

Argentine teachers' strike delays school year Posted: 05 Mar 2014 11:12 AM PST BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's teachers are on strike after rejecting a 31 percent pay hike, delaying the first day of school for nearly 6 million children.

Energy drinks linked to risky behaviors among teens Posted: 05 Mar 2014 08:13 AM PST By Kathleen Raven NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consuming highly caffeinated energy drinks like Amp, Red Bull or Rockstar could be a telltale sign of other problems for high school students, according to a Canadian study. The more often students reported drinking energy drinks, the more likely they were to also report feeling depressed, seeking out risky experiences, drinking alcohol or smoking. "Young people tend to mix alcohol with energy drinks - and that's also a problem," lead author Sunday Azagba told Reuters Health. In a survey of 8,210 public high school students from the Atlantic Canadian region, 62 percent reported having at least one energy drink in the previous year.

Asbestos poisoning victims want Yale honor revoked Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:47 AM PST NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — Victims of asbestos poisoning in Italy are urging Yale University to rescind an honorary degree given to a Swiss man later convicted of negligence in some 2,000 asbestos-related deaths.

Federal Regulators Eye Parent PLUS Loans, Student Debit Cards Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST Last month, the U.S. Department of Education kicked off the latest round of negotiated rule making -- a little-known process that can result in rules and regulations that have big implications for federal student aid recipients. On the docket this time around are several issues of importance to student loan borrowers, including Parent PLUS loan eligibility and debit cards for student loan refunds. The actual regulations result from negotiated rule making, a process in which representatives of federal agencies -- in the case of student loans, it's the U.S. Department of Education -- and affected constituencies work together in a committee to reach consensus on what can ultimately become a proposed rule. After a series of public hearings or "listening sessions" where anyone -- yes, even you -- can propose policy or procedure changes to improve the federal financial aid process, the department develops a tentative agenda of issues for negotiation.

Victims protest Swiss man's honorary Yale degree Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:32 AM PST NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — Victims of asbestos poisoning in Italy, and some Yale University alumni and faculty, are urging the school to rescind an honorary degree given to a Swiss man later convicted over contamination in Italy.

Yale caught up in dispute over honorary degree Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:20 AM PST NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Victims of asbestos poisoning in Italy, and some Yale University alumni and faculty, are urging the school to rescind an honorary degree given to a Swiss man later convicted over contamination in Italy.

Judge keeps alive suit challenging California teacher tenure laws Posted: 04 Mar 2014 06:10 PM PST By Dana Feldman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge refused on Tuesday to dismiss a closely watched legal challenge to California's teacher tenure laws, which education reform advocates say inflict public schools that serve poor and minority students with a disproportionate share of the worst teachers. "These five statutes are violating the rights of California public school students each and every day," plaintiffs' attorney Theodore Boutrous said in court on Tuesday. "They inevitably put and keep grossly ineffective teachers in the classroom in front of students." The lawsuit, if successful, is seen by some education reform advocates as opening a new front in the battle over how best to improve a U.S. public school system that critics say is failing too many children, especially in low-income and urban districts. The suit was filed on behalf of nine California students in 2012 by the education advocacy group Students Matter and went to a non-jury trial in January before a Los Angeles Superior Court judge.

The Benefits of Connecting Kids With Autism to Social Media Posted: 04 Mar 2014 04:55 PM PST Michele McKeone studied streaming video before YouTube existed and designed a social network before Facebook became a household name. As an undergrad in digital media at The University of The Arts in Philadelphia, she immersed herself in the world of digital media. "As a support teacher for children with autism, I realized that while there was no curriculum designed to teach digital literacy that matched the unique needs of my students, these skills were becoming increasingly important in our day to day interactions and changing the way we work, communicate, and even socialize," she says. Last summer McKeone launched Autism Expressed, the first and only online learning program teaching digital literacy to students with autism and other developmental disabilities.

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