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Fight for funding Pa. public schools headed to court

Posted: 12 Sep 2016 04:25 PM PDT

Fight for funding Pa. public schools headed to courtThe fight for funding in Pennsylvania public schools will come to a head Tuesday when a lawsuit makes its way to the state Supreme Court.

15 Money Management Tips for College Students

Posted: 12 Sep 2016 09:06 AM PDT

In fact, 64 percent of college students have run short on funds at some point before the end of their semesters, mainly due to unexpected expenses, according to a 2016 survey by Edvisors.com. With that in mind, here are 15 money management tips that could help equip college students with time-tested wisdom, as well as an arsenal of new apps and web services that should make saving and managing money easier to handle. An accepted rule of thumb stipulates that a student should not borrow more money in student loans than what they can expect to earn their first year out of college, says Todd Christensen, director of Education & Bankruptcy Certificate Services, and author of "Everyday Money for Everyday People." "I just spoke today with a fifth-year senior who already has $50,000 of student loan debt, and is planning to get a master's degree to become a school counselor.

When School Feels Like Prison

Posted: 12 Sep 2016 08:45 AM PDT

In December 2012, a Senate subcommittee was convened to examine the school-to-prison pipeline, a national trend in which overly punitive school discipline policies push students out of school and into the criminal-justice system. Among the witnesses at the first-ever congressional hearing on this issue was Edward Ward, at the time an honor-roll student in his sophomore year at DePaul University and a recent graduate of Orr Academy on the West Side of Chicago. He offered an eye-opening first-hand account of his high-school experience. "From the moment we stepped through the doors in the morning, we were faced with metal detectors, X-ray machines, and uniformed security," said Ward, describing a high-poverty, majority-black campus "where many young people … feel unwelcome and under siege." Far from an aberration, what Ward depicts—public schools serving primarily black and other nonwhite students that rely on more restrictive security—is quite common, according to a new research paper from Jason P. Nance, an associate professor of law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Nance set out to find if there was a proliferation of school security following highly publicized school shootings like the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. He discovered that many schools had intensified their security and surveillance of students, but the practice was not equally applied. Rather, schools with a preponderance of students of color within the school building were more inclined to adopt strict surveillance practices—metal detectors, locked gates, security cameras, random sweeps, and school police. In the first empirical analysis of its kind, Nance gained authorization to access a restricted database from the U.S. Department of Education—the School Survey on Crime and Safety conducted in 2009-10 and 2013-14—to examine school security methods pre- and post- the Newtown school massacre. He found a clear and consistent pattern, even after controlling for a host of variables that might explain the presence of stricter student surveillance, such as school crime, neighborhood crime, school disorder (disciplinary or behavioral problems on campus), and other student demographics and school characteristics. "After controlling for all those things, I still found that the concentration of students of color was a predictor of whether or not schools decided to rely on more intense [security] measures," said Nance, referring to black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American children. "I questioned why that was [and] it seemed like race was playing a factor in these decisions." His research carefully documents the degree to which race influenced surveillance decisions. Nance used logistic regression models—a statistical method for analyzing a dataset—to predict the odds of a school using a particular combination of security options. The study suggests that as the portion of students of color in the school increased, so did the odds that the school would rely on more intense surveillance methods. In schools where students of color accounted for more than half of the student body, the probability of the school using a mix of metal detectors, school police and security guards, locked gates, and random sweeps was two to 18 times greater than at schools where the nonwhite population was less than 20 percent. "Schools with higher concentrations of [students of color]," he concluded, "are more inclined to rely on heavy-handed measures to maintain order than other schools facing similar crime and discipline issues."

Ask an Economist: How Can Today’s College Students Future-Proof Their Careers?

Posted: 12 Sep 2016 06:53 AM PDT

It is by now close to certain that there are millions of people currently in high school and college who are fine-tuning their skills for steady-looking careers that will, following technological breakthroughs, dissipate by the time they retire. A 2013 study out of Oxford—the one that's most frequently cited in any discussion of the future of labor—estimated that just shy of half of American jobs were at risk of being swallowed up by advances in automation. In anticipation of changes like this, is there anything that today's college students can do now to future-proof their careers?

2017 Best Colleges Preview: Top 25 National Universities

Posted: 12 Sep 2016 04:30 AM PDT

Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications and then -- if you're lucky -- choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you'll call home for the next few years.

Good News Liberal-Arts Majors: Your Peers Probably Won’t Outearn You Forever

Posted: 11 Sep 2016 07:05 PM PDT

Six years ago, Andy Anderegg's decision to major in English looked like an economic sacrifice. When she left academia in 2010, with a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Kansas, the first job she landed was a Groupon Inc. writing gig paying all of $33,000 a year. Today, at age 30, she is executive editor at Soda Media Inc., a Seattle creator of online content, and building up her own digital-media consulting practice.

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