2014年8月29日星期五

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Ebola in mind, US colleges screen some students

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 07:16 AM PDT

Dr. Robert Palinkas, director of the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois, poses in an exam room in Urbana, Ill., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Extra health checks are part of protocols campuses throughout the United States have in place as they prepare for as many as 10,000 students from Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where more than 1,000 people have died in the worst Ebola outbreak in history. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try to insulate campuses from the worst Ebola outbreak in history.


Should You Skip College to Save Money?

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 06:53 AM PDT

With the average student loan debt in the United States at $33,424 this month, it's no wonder the worth of college has been called into question. These findings suggest that it isn't necessarily the college education that creates talent or success;

In Texas, big school finance questions remain

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 04:18 AM PDT

Pumping an extra $3.4 billion into Texas public schools didn't convince a judge that the state is adequately funding classrooms. But how much more money it will take — and how those funds should be divvied ...

Build Better Teachers

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 12:00 AM PDT

The New York Times calculates that the federal government now spends $107.6 billion on education yearly, which is layered over an estimated $524.7 billion spent by states and localities (source: National Center for Education Statistics). Reformers have urged — depending upon where they stand ideologically — smaller class sizes, more accountability, merit pay for teachers and educational choice.
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