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• Apples, Shmapples: Here Are Some Awesome Treats For Teachers For Appreciation Week
• Schools seek changes to healthier lunch rules
• Condi Backs Out Of Rutgers Commencement
• Skip college, forfeit $800,000: Fed study
• Bullied High-School Kids Carry Weapons to School
• US teachers nowhere as diverse as their students

Apples, Shmapples: Here Are Some Awesome Treats For Teachers For Appreciation Week Posted: 05 May 2014 04:02 PM PDT Teachers should be appreciated 365 days a year, right? While we know that's not the case often enough, this week is all about teachers. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in proclaiming May 6–10 Teacher Appreciation Week, said, "Teachers are central to every single community in America. Each day, teachers come to school ready to tackle a job that is critically important, extraordinarily complex, often joyful, and, at times, heartbreaking.

Schools seek changes to healthier lunch rules Posted: 05 May 2014 11:43 AM PDT ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Becky Domokos-Bays of Alexandria City Public Schools has served her students whole-grain pasta 20 times. Each time, she said, they rejected it.

Condi Backs Out Of Rutgers Commencement Posted: 05 May 2014 11:40 AM PDT After protests by students and faculty, former Secretary of State under George W. Bush announced she will not be giving the Rutgers University commencement speech.

Skip college, forfeit $800,000: Fed study Posted: 05 May 2014 10:01 AM PDT Over a lifetime, the average U.S. college graduate will earn at least $800,000 more than the average high school graduate, a study published Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows. That's after accounting for the high cost of college tuition and the four years of wages lost during the time it takes to complete a typical undergraduate degree, the researchers found. "Although there are stories of people who skipped college and achieved financial success, for most Americans the path to higher future earnings involves a four-year college degree," wrote Mary Daly, the San Francisco Fed's associate director of research, and Leila Bengali, a research associate, in the latest Economic Letter from the regional Fed bank. In short, they found, "college is still worth it." A college student who pays $21,200 in yearly tuition will recoup that investment by age 38, the researchers found.

Bullied High-School Kids Carry Weapons to School Posted: 05 May 2014 08:49 AM PDT "The figures are staggering," said study author Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York. "What we are finding is exceptionally high rates of high-school students carrying weapons to school if they have previously been a victim of bullying, and they have otherwise had threats to their safety and property," Adesman told Live Science.

US teachers nowhere as diverse as their students Posted: 05 May 2014 04:01 AM PDT U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students. Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite. New studies from the ...

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