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• Aiming for a Top 100 college? It's not at all necessary to thrive, poll finds
• Florida girl graduates college and high school a week apart
• Public Schools Are Getting More Diverse—but Where Are the Teachers of Color?
• Florida girl graduates college and high school
• 10 U.S Presidents who also worked as teachers
• Elite Colleges Don't Buy Happiness for Graduates

Aiming for a Top 100 college? It's not at all necessary to thrive, poll finds Posted: 06 May 2014 03:59 PM PDT And although college generally puts people on a track toward a better life, the poll points to lots of room for outcomes to improve. Only 39 percent of college graduates describe themselves as engaged at work, according to the survey, co-sponsored by Purdue University in Indiana and the private, Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation. On Tuesday, a group of congressional Democrats fired their own salvo on the issue of college costs by introducing legislation to allow Americans to refinance student loans at the same low interest rates now offered to current college students. Also last year, President Obama launched a College Affordability and Transparency Center within the Department of Education, to give Americans a window on costs and graduation rates around the country.

Florida girl graduates college and high school a week apart Posted: 06 May 2014 03:33 PM PDT By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Last week, just days before her high school graduation, 16-year-old Grace Bush collected a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from a south Florida university, fulfilling her proud parents' cost-saving plan on tuition. Bush will graduate from high school this Friday, but is already planning on heading back to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton for a master's degree in public administration before seeking a law degree. Home-schooled until 13 with her eight siblings, Grace began reading around the age of 2, her mother Gisla Bush said. "Then one day I saw her reading by herself and from that point on she did everything her other sisters did." Grace Bush began taking college classes at 13 and enrolled in summer sessions to finish the college degree in three years.

Public Schools Are Getting More Diverse—but Where Are the Teachers of Color? Posted: 06 May 2014 03:20 PM PDT If you attended public school and most of your teachers shared your racial background, go ahead and open your knapsack of privilege. According to a new report from the Center for American Progress, although 48 percent of public school students were kids of color in 2013, those pupils didn't usually see people who looked like them at the head of the class. This racial divide between teachers and students is up 1 percent from 2012, and it's worse in some states than others. In California, which officially became a majority minority state this spring, the report notes that 73 percent of students are nonwhite.

Florida girl graduates college and high school Posted: 06 May 2014 02:26 PM PDT By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Last week, just days before her high school graduation, 16-year-old Grace Bush collected a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from a south Florida university, fulfilling her proud parents' cost-saving plan on tuition. Bush will graduate from high school this Friday, but is already planning on heading back to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton for a master's degree in public administration before seeking a law degree. Home-schooled until 13 with her eight siblings, Grace began reading around the age of 2, her mother Gisla Bush said. "Then one day I saw her reading by herself and from that point on she did everything her other sisters did." Grace Bush began taking college classes at 13 and enrolled in summer sessions to finish the college degree in three years.

10 U.S Presidents who also worked as teachers Posted: 06 May 2014 06:55 AM PDT On National Teacher Day, Constitution Daily looks at 10 Presidents who were teachers in some capacity before they occupied the White House - including one who later married his own teacher.

Elite Colleges Don't Buy Happiness for Graduates Posted: 06 May 2014 12:00 AM PDT A word to high-school seniors rejected by their first choice: A degree from that shiny, elite college on the hill may not matter nearly as much as you think. A new Gallup survey of 30,000 college graduates of all ages in all 50 states has found that highly selective schools don't produce better workers or happier people, but inspiring professors—no matter where they teach—just might. This survey adds an interesting twist, because it looked not only at graduates after college;

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