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• Mexico says teacher testing will go ahead as planned
• Minecraft meets ecology simulation in an open-world educational game
• How China is using drones to stop cheating on University entrance exams
• 7 Warning Signs an Online Degree is a Scam
• 10 Colleges With the Highest Internship Rates
• Afghan teachers' strike shuts down at least 27 schools
• APNewsBreak: Kansas budget chief lays out possible cuts

Mexico says teacher testing will go ahead as planned Posted: 09 Jun 2015 04:32 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government says teacher testing will go on as planned, despite the objections of radical teachers' unions.

Minecraft meets ecology simulation in an open-world educational game Posted: 09 Jun 2015 12:30 PM PDT Veteran studio Strange Loop Games is embarking on an ambitious project to create a new kind of open world multiplayer game where the survival of every player on the server depends on careful management of in-game resources. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Eco hopes to become a platform for teaching middle school students about ecology in a communal, cloud-based game world. The tools at players disposal are familiar to anyone who's played Minecraft.

How China is using drones to stop cheating on University entrance exams Posted: 09 Jun 2015 08:21 AM PDT Beginning this week, over 9 million high school students in China will sit down for a test called the Gaokao, an exam similar in nature to the SAT. As China's University entrance exam, the Gaokao, otherwise known as the Higher Education Exam, is both high stakes and high pressure as it helps determine which tier of University each student can attend. As CNN points out, "failure means no degree, poorer job prospects and possibly a life of regret." With so much on the line, some students over the years have increasingly turned to high-tech cheating in order to improve their scores. DON'T MISS: iPhone 6s release date may have just leaked In an effort to combat that, Chinese officials have come up with

7 Warning Signs an Online Degree is a Scam Posted: 09 Jun 2015 07:00 AM PDT Students have so many online programs to choose from -- some with promises of quick, effortless degrees that seem too good to be true. While anyone can fall prey to an online degree scam, international students and first generation college students can be particularly vulnerable to degree mills, says Karen Pedersen, chief knowledge officer for the Online Learning Consortium, a group dedicated to advancing the quality of online learning. When students start looking for a program, they want to know the information they are seeing on a website is trustworthy, says Tim Willard, spokesman for the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, or CHEA.

10 Colleges With the Highest Internship Rates Posted: 09 Jun 2015 06:00 AM PDT The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College, The Short List: Grad School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matter to you in your college or grad school search.

Afghan teachers' strike shuts down at least 27 schools Posted: 09 Jun 2015 05:48 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A teachers strike demanding higher pay has shut down at least 27 schools in Afghanistan's capital, officials said Tuesday.

APNewsBreak: Kansas budget chief lays out possible cuts Posted: 09 Jun 2015 05:37 AM PDT Kansas would likely be forced to lay off prison guards, cut aid to public schools and reduce payments to health care providers and nursing homes if legislators don't increase taxes, Republican Gov. Sam ...

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