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• Before protests, U. of Missouri saw decades of race tension
• The Secret Lives of Animals Revealed Through Their Poo
• US colleges head to China to grow basketball fan base
• Hundreds of teachers sacked from Pakistan 'ghost schools'
• 10 Historically Black Colleges Where Alumni Contribute the Most
• More Arab Region Universities Offer Blended Learning
• Vast majority of Chicago teachers ready to strike: reports
• Pa. budget deal near with higher sales tax, more school funding

Before protests, U. of Missouri saw decades of race tension Posted: 10 Nov 2015 04:46 PM PST COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — This week's events at the University of Missouri seemed to unfold rapidly, with little warning. But some students, faculty and alumni say the protests and sudden resignation of the president and chancellor are the culmination of years of racial tension on the state's flagship campus.

The Secret Lives of Animals Revealed Through Their Poo Posted: 10 Nov 2015 10:08 AM PST Not long ago in South Africa's Soutpansberg, I watched a line of otherwise fastidious visiting high school students standing at a workbench happily sifting with their fingertips through specimens of excrement. The U.S. Lower 48 would fit into it five times over.

US colleges head to China to grow basketball fan base Posted: 10 Nov 2015 07:36 AM PST HANGZHOU, China (AP) — Forty years ago, former basketball star Bill Walton made a decision he still regrets today. His UCLA college team was invited to play an exhibition game in China in 1973, the year it won its second national title with Walton, and he decided not to go. The rest of the team then stayed home, too.

Hundreds of teachers sacked from Pakistan 'ghost schools' Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:43 AM PST Pakistan authorities have halted funding to hundreds of "ghost schools" and fired 450 absentee teachers, with officials vowing Tuesday to launch a crackdown on the practice in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. "We have detected and stopped funds to some 650 ghost schools and sacked 450 teachers who never taught at any school but were drawing salaries," Abdul Saboor Kakar, the provincial education secretary told AFP. Raza Mohammad Braich, the provincial minister of education, confirmed the details and said authorities had detected several hundred more schools and teachers that would come under the clampdown.

10 Historically Black Colleges Where Alumni Contribute the Most Posted: 10 Nov 2015 06:00 AM PST 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.

More Arab Region Universities Offer Blended Learning Posted: 10 Nov 2015 04:00 AM PST The use of blended learning is becoming more common at Arab region universities, and can prove an added benefit to traditional learning for Arab international students studying in the region. Somali national Zakaria Mohamed Hagi Hassan is currently taking a mix of in-class and online learning for his course on advanced crop physiology in the College of Food and Agricultural Sciences at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "Online classes play an important role in a student's full understanding of the course, and sometimes it's a supplement for what you have learned in the class," says Hassan, who is pursuing a Master of Science in crop science.

Vast majority of Chicago teachers ready to strike: reports Posted: 09 Nov 2015 07:54 PM PST A total of 97 percent of Chicago public school teachers, who are negotiating a new contract amid severe statewide budget troubles, said they are prepared to strike if necessary, according to media reports on Monday, citing a union official. The district, which serves about 400,000 students at more than 600 schools, faces a $1.1 billion structural deficit and thousands of possible teacher layoffs after Christmas. The Chicago Public Schools' recently approved $5.7 billion budget counts on $480 million in aid from the state of Illinois it has not received.

Pa. budget deal near with higher sales tax, more school funding Posted: 09 Nov 2015 07:24 PM PST A potential deal to break Pennsylvania's budget stalemate in its fifth month includes a state sales tax increase, expanded school property tax cuts and hundreds of millions of new dollars for public schools, top state lawmakers said Monday.

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