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• French teachers use weeping Eiffel Tower image to help kids understand attacks
• An Unconventional Retirement on Panama's Pacific Coast
• US draws record number of international students
• 10 Colleges With the Highest Graduation Rates
• 3 teachers at Bronx school diagnosed with tuberculosis

French teachers use weeping Eiffel Tower image to help kids understand attacks Posted: 17 Nov 2015 07:46 AM PST French teachers are using the cartoon image of a weeping Eiffel Tower to help young children understand what happened in last Friday's attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people. The image of a grieving, humanized Eiffel Tower holding hands with young children and gazing at a pool of blood appears in a special online edition of the 'astrapi' paper that explains how "men full of hate" carried out the attacks. "What we know is that these were terrorists, people who use violence and terror to impose their ideas," says the text of the online paper, which is aimed at young children.

An Unconventional Retirement on Panama's Pacific Coast Posted: 17 Nov 2015 07:18 AM PST Peg Fairbairn's 30-year tenure teaching in Texas' public schools was winding down. Fairbairn's partner, April Hess, was still working as an accountant, but didn't want to be for much longer. The pair dreamed of retirement, but had only Fairbairn's pension to fund it.

US draws record number of international students Posted: 17 Nov 2015 06:50 AM PST Almost a million foreign students enrolled in US higher education programs in 2014-2015, representing a 10 percent jump year-over-year, the State Department said Monday. The strong growth demonstrated that the United States is the choice destination for higher education students, the report said. The increase is the largest in foreign students in the United States in 35 years, said the report, which has been tracking numbers since 1954.

10 Colleges With the Highest Graduation Rates Posted: 17 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. 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 graduate school search.

3 teachers at Bronx school diagnosed with tuberculosis Posted: 16 Nov 2015 03:55 PM PST New York City officials are trying to determine the next steps, after three teachers at a Bronx school were diagnosed with tuberculosis.

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