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• Report finds few colleges have a Shakespeare requirement
• These Are the Best College Towns for Students
• Major Florida school district dumps almost all yearend testing
• The Closing of the Millennial Mind on Campus

Report finds few colleges have a Shakespeare requirement Posted: 23 Apr 2015 04:42 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — As Shakespeare would say, "We have seen better days."

These Are the Best College Towns for Students Posted: 23 Apr 2015 12:48 PM PDT The American Institute for Economic Research recently ranked the country's top college towns for 2014-2015, based on student life, economic health, culture and opportunity. Ithaca, N.Y., home to Ithaca College and Cornell University tops the list, thanks to entrepreneurial activity and research and development. College towns tend to have stronger local economies than cities of a comparable size, thanks to the stable demand for real estate from students and the relatively recession-proof field of higher education.

Major Florida school district dumps almost all yearend testing Posted: 23 Apr 2015 12:15 PM PDT By David Adams and Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - The Miami school district, the nation's fourth largest, said on Thursday it was eliminating most end-of-course exams, including all those for elementary school students, the latest blow to standardized testing in the state. "We have taken a responsible and logical approach to assessing students, in order to restore valuable teaching and learning time," Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, said in an announcement on Facebook. The move comes amid mounting statewide pressure to roll back standardized testing in Florida public schools, as well as recent computer glitches on computerized tests. It is also puts a dent in the educational legacy of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a possible Republican presidential candidate, who championed standardized testing while in office to grade schools and teachers based on student achievement.

The Closing of the Millennial Mind on Campus Posted: 23 Apr 2015 02:15 AM PDT Completing a college education, people have long presumed, shows that a young adult has not just mastered a particular subject but has broadened his or her intellect by exposure to many different disciplines, philosophies, and diverse approaches to both knowledge and life. Unfortunately, most of our universities and colleges end up promoting ignorance, insularity, fear, and infantilism. Rather than seek out heterodox opinions, the faculties and student bodies of these schools attempt to insulate themselves from opponents through speech codes, demands for "trigger warnings," demagoguery and shouting down of alternate views. Oberlin College in Ohio and Georgetown University in Washington DC both had groups invite Christina Hoff Sommers, a conservative critic of the current version of feminism, to speak on their campuses.

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