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• College students still largely misinformed about Ebola
• 3 Things to Know About Earning a Bachelor's Degree in Canada
• Why Schools Need More Teachers of Color—for White Students

College students still largely misinformed about Ebola Posted: 07 Aug 2015 07:18 AM PDT By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) - Months after the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014 had briefly the U.S., American college students still understood little about the disease and how it spreads, a 2015 survey suggests. "I was particularly surprised that almost a third thought you could get Ebola from mosquitoes, but this belief has also been echoed in the HIV literature," said Brandon Brown of the University of California Riverside School of Medicine, who coauthored a report about the survey in the American Journal of Infection Control. Most students got less than half of the survey questions correct, Brown told Reuters Health by email.

3 Things to Know About Earning a Bachelor's Degree in Canada Posted: 07 Aug 2015 05:30 AM PDT Canada isn't only known for moose, mounted police and maple syrup. Among a growing number of international students, it's also known for its world-class higher education system. About 336,400 international students came to Canada in 2014, up from 184,150 in 2008, according to the Canadian Bureau for International Education.

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.

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