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• Closing arguments begin in Atlanta test cheating trial
• Why teachers are better investors than pretty much anyone else
• Kanye West to Receive Honorary Doctorate Degree
• Seek Out-of-School Experiences to Help Choose a College Major
• Choose Between a Master's, Ph.D. in Engineering
• High School Teachers Guide Students Into Self-Publishing

Closing arguments begin in Atlanta test cheating trial Posted: 16 Mar 2015 04:47 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Closing arguments started Monday in the trial of a dozen former Atlanta Public Schools educators accused of participating in a test cheating conspiracy that drew nationwide attention.

Why teachers are better investors than pretty much anyone else Posted: 16 Mar 2015 11:34 AM PDT Openfolio, a platform where investors privately and publicly share their investment holdings, schoolteachers averaged better returns than people from any other profession.

Kanye West to Receive Honorary Doctorate Degree Posted: 16 Mar 2015 10:42 AM PDT "I was a gifted artist since age five and won national competitions and went to art school," he said. "I'm actually getting an honorary doctorate on May 5th from the Art Institute of Chicago."

Seek Out-of-School Experiences to Help Choose a College Major Posted: 16 Mar 2015 06:00 AM PDT Out-of-school experiences can be an excellent source of not just social, personal and emotional growth, but also of clarification. As high school students begin to consider college majors, they often turn to their course work and school-sponsored extracurricular activities for guidance.

Choose Between a Master's, Ph.D. in Engineering Posted: 16 Mar 2015 05:30 AM PDT Still, many engineers may find themselves wondering what a graduate degree could do for their career. Before choosing what kind of graduate degree to pursue, students should think about what they want to do with their lives after graduation, experts say. Master's degrees prepare students for careers in industry that don't have a research focus, says Babatunde Ogunnaike, dean of the college of engineering at the University of Delaware. Eddie Machek, who is earning a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Akron and who will start a doctoral program in engineering at Georgia Tech this fall, explains the difference between the degrees this way: "At a bachelor's level you are going to go out and do what's been done.

High School Teachers Guide Students Into Self-Publishing Posted: 16 Mar 2015 05:00 AM PDT In some high school classes, teens are becoming published authors through self-publishing projects. "It gave them real-world skills," says Tonya McQuade, an English teacher at Los Gatos High School in California, whose students published an electronic poetry anthology they created in class last year. National Poetry Month is in April and publishing a class poetry anthology, like McQuade's classes' did, might be a timely project for high school English teachers. Self-publishing platforms, such as Amazon's CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing, allow virtually anyone to publish a book for free or minimal costs.

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