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• U.S. spending on prisons grew at three times rate of school spending: report
• Mexican teachers, opposed to education reform, warn of more protests
• Avoid Falling for These 10 Online Education Myths

U.S. spending on prisons grew at three times rate of school spending: report Posted: 07 Jul 2016 04:05 PM PDT U.S. state and local spending on prisons and jails grew at three times the rate of spending on schools over the last 33 years as the number of Americans behind bars ballooned under a spate of harsh sentencing laws, a government report released Thursday said. U.S. Secretary of Education John King said the report's stark numbers should make state and local governments reevaluate their spending priorities and channel more money toward education. Between 1979 and 2012, state and local government expenditures grew by 107 percent to $534 billion from $258 billion for elementary and secondary education, while corrections spending rose by 324 percent to $71 billion from $17 billion, the U.S. Department of Education report found.

Mexican teachers, opposed to education reform, warn of more protests Posted: 07 Jul 2016 12:18 PM PDT By Natalie Schachar MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Teacher union leaders in Mexico have called on the government to repeal an education reform they say penalizes teaching staff in rural areas, and say they could step up protests that have caused havoc in the south and culminated in angry clashes with police. Tensions have risen in recent weeks as teachers opposed to President Enrique Pena Nieto's reform, which requires teachers to sit evaluation tests every three years, have closed off a slew of highways throughout the country. The National Security Commission has denied that police used firearms against the protesters.

Avoid Falling for These 10 Online Education Myths Posted: 07 Jul 2016 06:00 AM PDT Some people are skeptical about online education, but experts say prospective online students shouldn't trust everything they hear. Find out what to believe when it comes to online education on topics ranging from perceptions among employers to transferring credits to and from programs. Online learning requires professors to communicate differently than they would in a traditional classroom, but that doesn't mean the overall quality of instruction is lower, Ramin Sedehi, then director of the higher education consulting division at the Berkeley Research Group, told U.S. News in 2015.

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