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• What do adult students want from college?
• 3 Questions for High School Teachers to Ask Before Ditching Homework
• Suspended Turkish teachers caught up in post-coup crackdown
• Yes, Students Do Learn More From Attractive Teachers

What do adult students want from college? Posted: 29 Aug 2016 01:55 PM PDT Each year, legions of adult learners – that is, students who are 25 years old or older – take a first or second chance at higher education. On Monday, Washington Monthly released the first-ever list of best colleges for adult learners. More than 40 percent of Americans enrolled in colleges are adult learners.

3 Questions for High School Teachers to Ask Before Ditching Homework Posted: 29 Aug 2016 05:00 AM PDT A Texas teacher's no-homework policy went viral this month after a parent shared the news on Facebook. Brandy Young teaches second grade at Godley Elementary School in Texas, but some high school teachers may be wondering if it makes sense to stop assigning homework to their teenage students. Ramy Mahmoud, a science teacher at Williams High School in Plano, Texas, says simply appeasing parents because of pushback may not be the best idea, but teachers who want to change their homework policy to increase equity among students are on the right track.

Suspended Turkish teachers caught up in post-coup crackdown Posted: 29 Aug 2016 12:22 AM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — It was a notice received by tens of thousands of professionals in the aftermath of Turkey's failed coup, and one that profoundly shocked Uygar Ozdemir.

Yes, Students Do Learn More From Attractive Teachers Posted: 26 Aug 2016 08:06 AM PDT How to help students do better in school? Extra credit if you intuited that teacher attractiveness had other effects as well. More surprising: The researchers don't think that sexual interest explains the results, which held up whether the teacher and students were of the same sex or not.

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