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• To woo students, more colleges now hand-deliver acceptances
• Can students sue “grossly ineffective teachers”?
• 5 Ways Undergrads Can Set Themselves Up to Pay for Grad School
• U.S. High Schoolers Discover Cuba on Educational Trips

To woo students, more colleges now hand-deliver acceptances Posted: 21 Mar 2016 07:36 AM PDT FRANKLIN, Mass. (AP) — The visitors walking up her family's driveway mystified Maya Wolf. Four wore blue jackets. One was in a lion mascot costume. Then, as it clicked, she reached to her mouth in surprise.

Can students sue “grossly ineffective teachers”? Posted: 21 Mar 2016 06:55 AM PDT What happens when students—particularly low-income and minority students—are disproportionately assigned ineffective teachers?

5 Ways Undergrads Can Set Themselves Up to Pay for Grad School Posted: 21 Mar 2016 05:15 AM PDT As a fourth-year college student who plans to attend grad school in the fall, Kathryn Leary, 22, a communication sciences major at James Madison University, is searching for ways to pay for her master's degree in speech-language pathology. "I just got my acceptance at James Madison University and I think that's where I'm going to go," says Leary, who clicked the box on her application to be considered for an assistantship.

U.S. High Schoolers Discover Cuba on Educational Trips Posted: 21 Mar 2016 05:00 AM PDT President Barack Obama is visiting Cuba this week, making him the first sitting president to visit the country in nearly 90 years. "They are very curious," says Gretchen Calhoun, a social studies teacher at Aspen High School in Colorado who is accompanying a group of 12 students to Cuba on a trip later this week -- though the trip, like many high school students take overseas, is not sponsored by the district. Calhoun thinks that her students feel it's almost like an opportunity to travel back in time to see a country that has essentially been sealed off from capitalism.

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