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• Providence College students stage sit-in, cite campus racism
• Texas A&M leaders visit school, apologize for race incident
• Bad teachers: Which states are keeping track and which aren't
• 10 Colleges That Attract the Most Transfer Students
• Indian students, teachers protest after nationalist violence
• Indian teachers strike to protest at student's arrest
• 3 Spring To-Do's for High School AP Teachers

Providence College students stage sit-in, cite campus racism Posted: 16 Feb 2016 04:36 PM PST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — About 50 students at a Catholic college staged a sit-in at the president's office on Tuesday over allegations of campus racism.

Texas A&M leaders visit school, apologize for race incident Posted: 16 Feb 2016 01:12 PM PST DALLAS (AP) — Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp apologized Tuesday to high school students for racial insults that some minority students say they heard while visiting the College Station campus last week.

Bad teachers: Which states are keeping track and which aren't Posted: 16 Feb 2016 12:30 PM PST Only seven states got an "A" in a USA Today survey that ranked states across the nation on background checks, transparency on teacher disciplinary actions, mandatory reporting laws and how states handle sharing information about teachers' misconduct with other states. The survey indicates there are big gaps in info about teachers and points to a need for better coordination in collecting and sharing information about the misconduct of teachers.

10 Colleges That Attract the Most Transfer Students Posted: 16 Feb 2016 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.

Indian students, teachers protest after nationalist violence Posted: 16 Feb 2016 05:00 AM PST NEW DELHI (AP) — Students, journalists and teachers protested inside a university campus in the Indian capital Tuesday, demanding the release of an arrested student leader and denouncing violence by Hindu nationalists.

Indian teachers strike to protest at student's arrest Posted: 15 Feb 2016 04:53 PM PST Hundreds of teachers at one of India's top universities went on strike Tuesday to protest at the arrest of a student on a controversial sedition charge that has sparked mass protests. Student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on Friday for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans at a rally called to protest against a Kashmiri separatist's execution three years ago -- a charge he denies. Violence broke out on Monday at the court where Kumar, head of the student union at New Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), was remanded in custody.

3 Spring To-Do's for High School AP Teachers Posted: 15 Feb 2016 05:00 AM PST Earning a perfect score on the Advanced Placement calculus exam is extremely rare -- only 12 students did it last year. One of those test-takers was teen Cedrick Argueta, a student at Lincoln High School in Los Angeles. All of Argueta's classmates passed the test too -- an impressive feat -- and something his teacher Anthony Yom has achieved for three years, the Los Angeles Times reported this month.

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