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• Mexico town buries dead after clash between teachers, police
• Utah’s Plan to Recruit Teachers: Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary
• Thousands of California college students homeless and go hungry
• NYC lawmakers pass a novel requirement for free tampons
• Michigan governor signs $617 million Detroit schools bailout
• Brain Tumor Risk Linked with Higher Education, Study Finds
• 10 Colleges Where Grads Owe the Most
• University graduates face higher brain tumour risk: study
• 10 Colleges and Universities Near the Beach
• Teen marijuana use in Colorado found lower than national average

Mexico town buries dead after clash between teachers, police Posted: 21 Jun 2016 05:29 PM PDT NOCHIXTLAN, Mexico (AP) — A small town in southern Mexico buried three of its own Tuesday, two days after a clash between police and protesters left eight dead.

Utah’s Plan to Recruit Teachers: Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary Posted: 21 Jun 2016 04:59 PM PDT The move, which won unanimous approval from the board, is designed not only to stem the exodus of teachers from the profession but to draw new ones into the classroom by relaxing the standards to get them there. Education analysts, however, say the idea is a short-term solution to a longer-term paradox: how to get and keep quality teachers in a demanding profession with high standards and low pay. Marla Kilfoyle, a manager at the advocacy group Badass Teacher Association, told TakePart the situation is the result of the near-constant "de-professionalization" of the teaching profession—along with standardized tests, assessments, and top-down mandates—that is driving teachers away.

Thousands of California college students homeless and go hungry Posted: 21 Jun 2016 04:11 PM PDT Nearly 50,000 students attending the largest public university in the United States are homeless and many more go hungry, according to a new study made public this week. The study, commissioned by California State University (CSU), which has 23 campuses across the western state and some 460,000 students, shows that 8.7 to 12 percent of students at the school are homeless while 21 to 24 percent lack a consistent food source. "I reflected a bit on the number, and the number one in five students at Cal State are food insecure are a gasp," said Timothy White, chancellor of the Cal State system, as he presented the findings at a conference on Monday.

NYC lawmakers pass a novel requirement for free tampons Posted: 21 Jun 2016 03:34 PM PDT New York City is on track to become the nation's first city to require free tampons and sanitary pads in public schools, homeless shelters and jails after lawmakers approved the idea Tuesday amid a national ...

Michigan governor signs $617 million Detroit schools bailout Posted: 21 Jun 2016 03:23 PM PDT LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's governor signed a $617 million bailout and restructuring plan for Detroit's public schools on Tuesday, two years after the state committed money to help end the city's bankruptcy.

Brain Tumor Risk Linked with Higher Education, Study Finds Posted: 21 Jun 2016 09:35 AM PDT People with higher levels of education may be more likely to develop certain types of brain tumors, a new study from Sweden suggests. Researchers found that women who completed at least three years of university courses were 23 percent more likely to develop a type of cancerous brain tumor called glioma, compared with women who only completed up to nine years of mandatory education and did not go to a university.

10 Colleges Where Grads Owe the Most Posted: 21 Jun 2016 06:00 AM PDT 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.

University graduates face higher brain tumour risk: study Posted: 21 Jun 2016 05:53 AM PDT People with at least three years of higher education are at greater risk for cancerous brain tumours than those with no more than nine years of schooling, perplexed researchers said Tuesday. "There is a 19 percent increased risk that university-educated men could be diagnosed with glioma," said Amal Khanolkar, a scientist at the Institute of Child Health in London and lead author of a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community. "It was a surprising result which is difficult to explain," Khanolkar told AFP.

10 Colleges and Universities Near the Beach Posted: 21 Jun 2016 05:00 AM PDT Colleges With a Coastal View

Teen marijuana use in Colorado found lower than national average Posted: 20 Jun 2016 05:55 PM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Marijuana consumption by Colorado high school students has dipped slightly since the state first permitted recreational cannabis use by adults, a new survey showed on Monday, contrary to concerns that legalization would increase pot use by teens. The biannual poll by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment also showed the percentage of high school students indulging in marijuana in Colorado was smaller than the national average among teens. According to the department, 21.2 percent of Colorado high school students surveyed in 2015 had used marijuana during the preceding 30 days, down from 22 percent in 2011, the year before voters statewide approved recreational cannabis use by adults 21 and older.

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