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• US teacher shortage: how to keep teachers from quitting
• College operator ITT Educational Services plans bankruptcy: sources
• 5 Money Lessons Teens Should Learn Before They Go to College
• Save Money by Spending Less Time in College
• Feds to Schools: Kids Don’t Need More Cops on Campus
• Fifth defendant admits role in college students' kidnapping

US teacher shortage: how to keep teachers from quitting Posted: 15 Sep 2016 02:17 PM PDT With rising class sizes and high rates of teacher turnover, students may be finding it harder now to build such relationships. Researchers at the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), a Palo Alto, Calif.-based think tank, concluded that most policymakers are tackling the wrong end of the problem: Don't just encourage people to join the profession, they say, find ways to keep them teaching once they get there. Halving the rate of attrition – which would prevent 130,000 teaching jobs from opening up each year – could almost eliminate teacher shortages.

College operator ITT Educational Services plans bankruptcy: sources Posted: 15 Sep 2016 08:06 AM PDT ITT's move comes after it said last week it would shut its 137 technical college campuses in 39 states, where roughly 35,000 students are enrolled and 8,000 employees work, as a result of the U.S. Department of Education decision. ITT has hired restructuring consultants Alvarez & Marsal LLC and bankruptcy law firm Faegre Baker Daniels LLP to prepare for the filing, the sources said this week. ITT Educational Services and spokespeople at Alvarez & Marsal and Faegre Baker Daniels did not immediately return a request for comment.

5 Money Lessons Teens Should Learn Before They Go to College Posted: 15 Sep 2016 07:30 AM PDT Only 20 states require high school students to take economics and even fewer -- 17 states -- require a personal finance class, according to the Council for Economic Education. "I think it comes down to three important elements, and the basic understanding of money, debt and compound interest," says Michael Martin, a financial advisor with Marius Wealth Management in New York City. "As parents nowadays, we give our kids way too much without them earning it," says Chad Slagle, president of Slagle Financial in Edwardsville, Illinois, and a father of four.

Save Money by Spending Less Time in College Posted: 15 Sep 2016 06:30 AM PDT The only thing growing more quickly than the sticker price on a college education may be the debate around the value of a degree -- particularly if a student takes on a big load of debt while majoring in something with no clear path to a decent job. With an eye toward giving families a way to save time and money, colleges and universities nationwide are offering accelerated degree programs that scoot students through in three years, allow them to get both a bachelor's and master's degree in four or five years, and provide a streamlined path through law school or medical school. Faith Finoli is "getting to finish my undergraduate and osteopathic medical degree in seven rather than eight years'' by choosing a three-year bachelor's in biology at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania coupled with a D.O. degree that takes an additional four years from partner school Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Feds to Schools: Kids Don’t Need More Cops on Campus Posted: 15 Sep 2016 02:43 AM PDT If unequal application of discipline in schools is a conduit in the school-to-prison pipeline, then police officers in schools are typically the pump. By some estimates, up to half the nation's public schools have at least a part-time officer patrolling the hallways—and some struggling districts are far more likely to employ a cop than a guidance counselor. Last week, however, the Department of Education sent a letter to districts around the country urging them to dial back the number of armed, uniformed law enforcement officers, often known as school resource officers, in their schools.

Fifth defendant admits role in college students' kidnapping Posted: 14 Sep 2016 09:02 PM PDT ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The fifth of nine people charged in the abduction and assault of two New York college students has pleaded guilty in exchange for a 35-year prison sentence.

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