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• State in northeast Nigeria shuts schools after Islamist killings
• Black preschoolers more likely to face suspension
• Theory: Maybe Black Toddlers Are Suspended From Preschool More Because of Racism
• Online Graduate Degrees Hit a Sweet Spot of Quality, Convenience
• Thousands of preschool kids face suspension

State in northeast Nigeria shuts schools after Islamist killings Posted: 21 Mar 2014 10:39 AM PDT By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's northeasterly Borno state has ordered all of its schools to shut to protect children after Islamists killed dozens of pupils in an attack last month, an official from the state Education Ministry and several parents said on Friday. Security officials said the militant Boko Haram group had shot or burned to death at least 29 pupils in a boarding school in northeast Nigeria, although a journalist who counted bodies in the morgue after the attack put the figure at 59. "All public and private schools have been directed by the state ministry of education to end their second-term academic calendar latest this week," said a senior official in the ministry who declined to be named. Boko Haram, the militant group's widely used nickname, means "Western education is forbidden".

Black preschoolers more likely to face suspension Posted: 21 Mar 2014 08:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Black students are more likely to be suspended from U.S. public schools — even as tiny preschoolers.

Theory: Maybe Black Toddlers Are Suspended From Preschool More Because of Racism Posted: 21 Mar 2014 08:29 AM PDT In 2011, over 8,000 kids were suspended from preschool — preschool! — in America. More than half were black, despite comprising less than half of the student population. Sure, we can entertain a lot of theories why this is the case, but I am going to go with this one: America has a problem with racism. As the Associated Press reports, the data, which will be released on Friday, comes from the civil rights section of the Department of Education.

Online Graduate Degrees Hit a Sweet Spot of Quality, Convenience Posted: 21 Mar 2014 05:00 AM PDT While distance learning is hardly new, technology has now made it possible -- and attractive -- for hundreds of highly regarded U.S. institutions to offer their postgraduate degrees to students around the world. A 2012 study by Eduventures, a Boston-based higher education research and advisory firm, reported that 35 percent of all master's degree students are taking their courses at least 80 percent online, a jump of nearly 16 percent in just one year. Many prestigious institutions now in the game impose modest residential requirements on online students. As part of MBA@UNC, a three-year-old program of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, students must participate in at least two three-day immersion weekends in cities like Johannesburg, Istanbul and Chicago, where they network with business executives, gain insights into specific industries and get career counseling.

Thousands of preschool kids face suspension Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Even preschoolers are getting suspended from U.S. public schools — and they're disproportionately black, a trend that continues up through the later grades.

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