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• Hillary Clinton Slams GOP for Ignoring College Debt at Debate
• 10 Cheap Online Graduate Education Programs for Out-of-State Students
• College students still largely misinformed about Ebola
• Why Schools Need More Teachers of Color—for White Students

Hillary Clinton Slams GOP for Ignoring College Debt at Debate Posted: 11 Aug 2015 03:35 PM PDT Hillary Clinton on Tuesday called out Republicans, and specifically Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, for "slashing" the investment in higher education and for ignoring the issue of college debt during the GOP primary debate. Really I admire you, greatly, for that," Clinton said during a town hall at the River Valley Community College in Claremont, New Hampshire.

10 Cheap Online Graduate Education Programs for Out-of-State Students Posted: 11 Aug 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. Prospective students looking for the right master's degree in education have a few factors to consider, including reputation, specializations offered and last but not least -- cost. The good news for cost-conscious consumers is that plenty of schools -- 31 , to be exact -- charged less than $350 per credit for out-of-state students.

College students still largely misinformed about Ebola Posted: 10 Aug 2015 07:12 PM PDT (This August 7 story has been refiled to add missing word 'reached' in first paragraph) By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) - Months after the Ebola virus outbreak of 2014 had briefly reached 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.

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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