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• Arkansas budget bill boosts money for schools, prisons
• Students, staff left scrambling after Bucks Co. school abruptly closes
• Charges against Arizona teens in alleged murder plot dropped
• Debunking Myths About the U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings
• Train for a Problem-Solving Career as a Higher Education Consultant
• College students make bracelets to help jailed journalists
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Plans to Donate His Fortune
• College Students to Veteran Educators: Quit Telling Us to Avoid Teaching
• Teachers take 1,000 apples to New York governor in protest

Arkansas budget bill boosts money for schools, prisons Posted: 27 Mar 2015 03:19 PM PDT Arkansas' public schools, prisons and Medicaid programs are set to receive boosts in funding while most other state agencies will see a 1 percent cut under a nearly $5.2 billion proposed state budget unveiled ...

Students, staff left scrambling after Bucks Co. school abruptly closes Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:33 PM PDT Dozens of Bucks County high school students and their parents are scrambling to find a place to finish the academic year.

Charges against Arizona teens in alleged murder plot dropped Posted: 27 Mar 2015 02:01 PM PDT TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Prosecutors say there isn't solid evidence that five Arizona high school students who were charged with conspiracy to commit murder actually planned to carry out the killing of a fellow student.

Debunking Myths About the U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings Posted: 27 Mar 2015 06:30 AM PDT Each spring, after college admissions letters have been mailed, U.S. News sees an uptick in visitors to the Best Colleges rankings. High school seniors and their parents turn to our website to research tuition, financial aid resources, academic life and all of the other information we gather on 1,800 colleges and universities nationwide. One parent recently wrote: "After reading through the ("Best Colleges" guidebook), my daughter has seriously started considering a gap year and knows that a small liberal arts college is probably best for her. I also like that there are regional and state rankings since she has very particular ideas about where she wants to live while she studies.

Train for a Problem-Solving Career as a Higher Education Consultant Posted: 27 Mar 2015 06:00 AM PDT As colleges and universities struggle to cope with shrinking budgets and online competition, they're increasingly tapping experts like Joi Hayes, 27, for advice on keeping costs down. Hayes is a Washington, D.C.-based analyst in the education strategy and operations group of Huron Consulting, a 13-year-old company headquartered in Chicago that boasts one of the largest higher education practices in the country with some 335 employees. Her current project: helping a Midwestern university evaluate different budget models and decide on which one to implement. "I'm just really passionate about learning how to make things better." The job, says Hayes, who studied mechanical engineering as an undergrad at the University of Virginia, is "a perfect marriage" of two things she enjoys: education and the problem-solving aspect of her undergraduate major.

College students make bracelets to help jailed journalists Posted: 27 Mar 2015 05:04 AM PDT University of Maryland journalism students are raising money to launch a line of bracelets emblazoned with the names of journalists imprisoned around the world to raise money for the cause, and awareness ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Plans to Donate His Fortune Posted: 26 Mar 2015 05:56 PM PDT The longtime tech executive told 'Fortune' magazine that he also will pay for his 10-year-old nephew's college education.

College Students to Veteran Educators: Quit Telling Us to Avoid Teaching Posted: 26 Mar 2015 03:43 PM PDT We don't need your protection, we need you to stay strong and stand up for what you know is right," wrote Rivera. " 'Thank you for writing this post! I thought I was the only person who felt that way!' " The feedback, she says, led her to realize that aspiring teachers "shouldn't be working individually, but we should come together" as a unified force to push education reform. A year later, that idea and her blog post have become the blueprint for the Young Teachers Collective, an effort that Rivera and six other aspiring educators launched last week. Blending advocacy and vision with support-group nurturing and old-fashioned union-style organization, YTC calls for a "common vision for the future of education." The initiative also hopes to "provide young teachers with both a sense of hope and tools on how to fight for a better education system." That includes helping educators develop "political consciousness" about how systemic problems in the nation's education system contribute to poverty, crime, and disenfranchisement.

Teachers take 1,000 apples to New York governor in protest Posted: 20 Mar 2015 01:34 PM PDT Teachers from an apple-growing region in New York have delivered 1,000 of them to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) to protest education funding levels. The teachers from the Finger Lakes say each of the shiny ...

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