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• Chicago schools cites drop in enrollment for new layoffs
• Family classes tied to better school performance for poor kids
• Shootings at U.S. colleges deadlier and more frequent, report finds
• Options for Students Who Shouldn't Go to College
• South Africa's Zuma says protests put universities in peril
• South Africa's Zuma says student protests could destroy universities

Chicago schools cites drop in enrollment for new layoffs Posted: 03 Oct 2016 02:34 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools has announced it will lay off about 250 teachers and staff members due to a steeper-than-expected decline in enrollment.

Family classes tied to better school performance for poor kids Posted: 03 Oct 2016 12:52 PM PDT By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Children in low-income families who get extra help building social skills before kindergarten may behave better and get higher grades than their peers, a small study suggests. Researchers focused on kids that are traditionally at high risk for mental health problems and academic underachievement – low-income minority children attending high-poverty urban schools. The experiment included 10 public schools in New York City serving predominantly poor, black students.

Shootings at U.S. colleges deadlier and more frequent, report finds Posted: 03 Oct 2016 09:30 AM PDT Shootings on college campuses over the last five years have more than doubled since a similar period a decade earlier, according to a report released on Monday by a criminal justice reform organization. The incidents have also grown more deadly, with three times as many people injured or killed during the most recent five-year period, the New York City-based Citizens Crime Commission said. "It is now appropriate to call our nation's gun violence problem an epidemic," said the commission's president, Richard Aborn.

Options for Students Who Shouldn't Go to College Posted: 03 Oct 2016 06:30 AM PDT Kayleen McCabe, host of DIY Network's "Rescue Renovation," spends her time outside of the show talking to middle and high school students all over the country about opportunities in the construction field. Some students might be happier pursuing a path other than attending a four-year college, education experts say. Nearly 70 percent of high school graduates from the class of 2015 enrolled in a college or university, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and that number doesn't take into account the number of students who drop out of college.

South Africa's Zuma says protests put universities in peril Posted: 03 Oct 2016 04:51 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Recent violent protests at some South African universities have caused about $44 million in property damage and threaten to sabotage the country's system of higher education, President Jacob Zuma said Monday.

South Africa's Zuma says student protests could destroy universities Posted: 03 Oct 2016 02:50 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Widespread protests by South African students demanding free higher education could destroy universities, President Jacob Zuma said on Monday. "What is happening on our campuses has the potential to destroy our universities but we have the power to change that working together," Zuma said at an education summit. "Government is committed to do everything possible to progressively make higher education more affordable for all." (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by Joe Brock)

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