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• Teen tobacco users likely to use it in multiple forms
• Online Degrees Can Help Adults Switch Careers
• Big Gap in College Graduation Rates for Rich and Poor, Study Finds

Teen tobacco users likely to use it in multiple forms Posted: 04 Feb 2015 12:54 PM PST By Andrew M. Seaman A national survey of U.S. middle and high school students finds that those who use tobacco or nicotine products are likely to also use more than one type of product. About 15 percent of the adolescents reported smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes, bidis, hookahs or water pipes, using dissolvable forms of tobacco or "vaping" e-cigarettes. "Our study really shows that kids are using more than one of these products at the same time," said Youn Ok Lee of RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the report's lead author. Lee said there are many varieties of tobacco products available.

Online Degrees Can Help Adults Switch Careers Posted: 04 Feb 2015 06:30 AM PST While both online and face-to-face learning can help students achieve their new career goals, online study often allows for greater flexibility, particularly when it comes to balancing a job with an education, says Melissa Venable, online instructor and course designer at Saint Leo University and University of South Florida. In a 2014 survey conducted by Aslanian Market Research and Learning House, Inc., a company that helps colleges and universities develop and deliver online degree programs , 26 percent of undergraduate respondents and 19 percent of graduate respondents said they pursued online learning because they wanted a career in a new field. "Before online learning, I think you had to make more of a sacrifice," says Venable. Before students begin their online journey, experts say it's important to examine the necessary steps involved in doing so.

Big Gap in College Graduation Rates for Rich and Poor, Study Finds Posted: 03 Feb 2015 04:53 PM PST College completion rates for wealthy students have soared in 40 years but barely budged for low-income students, leading to a yawning gap in educational attainment between rich and poor that could have long-lasting implications for the socioeconomic divide. In 2013, 77% of adults from families in the top income quartile earned at least bachelor's degrees by the time they turned 24, up from 40% in 1970, according to a new report from the University of Pennsylvania's Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy and the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. "Education is one of the levers that we have in place to address income inequality. One small sign of progress is that more poor students are enrolling in college than they did 40 years ago.

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