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• I’ve Found a New Way to Rank Colleges—And It Has Nothing to Do with Learning
• Puerto Ricans face punishing drought amid economic slump
• Why Schools Need More Teachers of Color—for White Students
• More College Students Selling Stock—in Themselves

I’ve Found a New Way to Rank Colleges—And It Has Nothing to Do with Learning Posted: 06 Aug 2015 04:21 PM PDT Having a class where the professor wrote the textbook would be fantastic, but would you really trade that for living in a dump where the bathroom mold has been carbon-dated? Right now I'm a high-school ...

Puerto Ricans face punishing drought amid economic slump Posted: 06 Aug 2015 07:38 AM PDT Puerto Ricans are learning to live without water on an island that already was suffering an economic crisis. A severe drought is forcing businesses to temporarily close, public schools to cancel breakfast ...

Why Schools Need More Teachers of Color—for White Students Posted: 06 Aug 2015 05:30 AM PDT Noah Caruso, 17, calls South Philadelphia home. Known for cheesesteaks, pizza, and bakeries, South Philly is a close-knit, largely Italian American neighborhood where much of the population has traditionally shared the same background, culture, and race. Though an influx of immigrants has made the area more diverse in recent decades, South Philly, like the rest of the city, remains highly segregated. Caruso's predominantly white community was echoed at his middle school, Christopher Columbus Charter School, where he says all of his teachers were white like him, as were virtually all of his classmates. It was against this backdrop that Caruso enrolled in Science Leadership Academy (SLA)—a public magnet high school in the city—and landed in the freshman English class of Matthew Kay, his first black teacher.

More College Students Selling Stock—in Themselves Posted: 05 Aug 2015 09:26 AM PDT Elida Gonzalez feared drowning in college debt on her road to a middle-class job, so instead she sold investors a piece of her future. The now-23-year-old daughter of a farm worker from Santa Maria, Calif., signed up with 13th Avenue Funding, borrowing $15,000 to complete her bachelor's degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "I was able to trust them, which is really hard for me to do," said Ms. Gonzalez, who could pay back more than the cost of a traditional loan if she does well, but is on the hook for only 5% of her income for 15 years if she doesn't.

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