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• Nigeria delays start of school year over Ebola virus
• Four college students killed in fiery Ohio plane crash
• Former Yale professor takes on elite colleges: They’re 'exacerbating income inequality'
• Pursue an Entrepreneurship Major, Minor as an International Student
• New Evidence That Sleep-Deprived Teenagers Need to Start School Later

Nigeria delays start of school year over Ebola virus Posted: 26 Aug 2014 01:42 PM PDT Nigeria said Tuesday that resumption of classes in all public and private schools will be delayed by a month to put in place "preventive measures" against the Ebola virus, which has claimed five lives in Lagos. "All primary and secondary schools in private and public sectors are to remain closed until Monday, October 13," Education Minister Ibrahim Shekarau said while addressing a meeting of senior teachers in the country. The ministry said Nigeria has recorded 13 confirmed cases of Ebola, including the Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who brought the virus to the economic capital Lagos on July 20 and died five days later. Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu announced that the total number discharged is now seven.

Four college students killed in fiery Ohio plane crash Posted: 26 Aug 2014 11:53 AM PDT By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Four Ohio college students were killed late Monday in a fiery plane crash near a Cleveland-area airport, investigators and college officials said on Tuesday. The 1999 Cessna went down on Monday about 10 p.m. local time (2300 ET Tuesday) near a runway at Cuyahoga County Airport, about 16 miles (25 kilometers) from downtown Cleveland, according to Case Western Reserve University officials and the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The victims, all students at Case Western in Cleveland, were on a sightseeing flight and attempting to return to the airport when the accident occurred, according to National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson.

Former Yale professor takes on elite colleges: They’re 'exacerbating income inequality' Posted: 26 Aug 2014 06:57 AM PDT William Deresiewicz, a former Yale professor and author of the new book 'Excellent Sheep,' argues that admissions standards, especially at the most elite colleges in the country, exacerbate income inequality.

Pursue an Entrepreneurship Major, Minor as an International Student Posted: 26 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT Growing up in a family full of entrepreneurs meant entrepreneurship is not a new concept for me, but becoming one is a challenge. Students do not have to study entrepreneurship as an academic major or minor in order to be an entrepreneur, but as competition grows, it has become an important major in higher education. Various countries have different rules and regulations on how students can be an entrepreneur, but as an international student in the U.S., an entrepreneurship major at your college could possibly help in starting a business. Here are some other reasons why it's a good path of study for international students.

New Evidence That Sleep-Deprived Teenagers Need to Start School Later Posted: 25 Aug 2014 04:38 PM PDT Now the American Academy of Pediatrics is putting pressure on schools to adjust the time the morning bell rings. The medical organization wrote that insufficient sleep in adolescents is a "public health issue that significantly affects the health and safety, as well as the academic success, of our nation's middle and high school students." It recommends that middle and high school students get 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep every night. Department of Education, roughly 43 percent of public high schools start before 8 a.m., but if a student is in the high school band or on the swim team, he or she may stagger into school as early as 6:30 a.m. for practice.

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