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• Study: College Students' Transfer Plans Could Affect Obama Ratings
• Graduate Education Programs Lead in Attracting Latinos
• Arkansas Bill Would Force These Kids Today To Learn How To Make Correct Change

Study: College Students' Transfer Plans Could Affect Obama Ratings Posted: 12 Feb 2015 06:30 AM PST About 30 percent of freshmen at the least selective colleges plan to transfer to another institution before completing their degree, according to the University of California--Los Angeles' 49th annual survey of new college students. Schools that have a mission of access and that serve minority students could see a negative effect on their potential federal rating if significant numbers of students leave for another school before graduating. "For many years the federal government has measured graduation rates at four-year schools based on first-time, full-time students who earn a degree from their first institution within six years of enrollment," said Kevin Eagan, interim director of UCLA's Cooperative Institutional Research Program. "We know from our research that students who start college intending to transfer tend to follow through on those plans.

Graduate Education Programs Lead in Attracting Latinos Posted: 12 Feb 2015 06:00 AM PST Not all college students will go to graduate school, but the percentage of Hispanics who get a master's degree is especially low. Only 7 percent of all master's degrees earned in 2012 were awarded to Latinos, according to a recent report from Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization that studies how Latinos perform and advance in school. "From 2003 -- 2012, the number of master's degrees earned by Latinos increased 103%, compared to African Americans (89%), Asians (65%), and Whites (36%)," the report states. Education experts have a few theories on why Hispanic graduate students choose this field, and encourage prospective students who are Latino to carefully research schools they are considering for this degree.

Arkansas Bill Would Force These Kids Today To Learn How To Make Correct Change Posted: 12 Feb 2015 04:54 AM PST Cursive handwriting and diagramming sentences are practically extinct skills among America's school-aged kids. The Republican has announced that he will propose a bill mandating that kids in Arkansas public schools learn how to make correct change, reports Little Rock CBS affiliate KTHV. "An operator of a sale barn in northwest Arkansas told me: 'My wife and I went to Sonic the other night bought two drinks for just over three dollars and when the attendant came out I handed a 20 dollar bill to the attendant,'" Hendren explained to KTHV. Hendren said he will make learning how to count correct change part of a broader bill mandating a personal finance curriculum in taxpayer-funded schools.

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