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• The Unlikely Union Between a Trump Supporter and Historically Black Colleges
• How high school graduation rates reached a record high
• High Schools Get Frank With Teens on Heroin Epidemic
• Unrest cripples weak school system in Myanmar's Rakhine

The Unlikely Union Between a Trump Supporter and Historically Black Colleges Posted: 17 Oct 2016 11:30 AM PDT The organization that advocates at the national level for historically black colleges and universities has a somewhat unlikely new communications director. Last month, Paris Dennard started in that role at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, a nonpartisan nonprofit that represents nearly 50 publicly funded HBCUs. The reason Dennard is an unusual candidate for the job is that the 34-year-old Phoenix native is also a Republican strategist and commentator who has publicly defended Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who is polling, at best, in the single digits among likely black voters.

How high school graduation rates reached a record high Posted: 17 Oct 2016 05:23 AM PDT More high school students across the nation received their diplomas last year than ever before, with a record 83 percent of students graduating on time, according to the White House. The announcement follows a trend in improving graduation rates, which have climbed steadily since the 2010-2011 school year. Experts say that a more uniform education system across states, thanks in part to more cohesive federal standards like Common Core and the creation of a consistent system for reporting graduation rates, has played a role in boosting numbers nationwide.

High Schools Get Frank With Teens on Heroin Epidemic Posted: 17 Oct 2016 05:00 AM PDT "All of our students have a story of somebody in their family who is an addict or a friend of a family member or something of that nature," says Erin Parsons, a history teacher at John Marshall High School in Glen Dale, West Virginia. Parsons and her husband Dave, who is also a history teacher at John Marshall, created the Marshall County Drug Free Club in collaboration with local Reynolds Memorial Hospital for middle and high school students in the district. Every other week, the club members at her school meet to learn about drug use and addiction, with the goal of educating students on addiction and preventing student drug abuse, says Parsons.

Unrest cripples weak school system in Myanmar's Rakhine Posted: 16 Oct 2016 05:02 PM PDT Buddhist teachers have been airlifted and trucked out of northwestern Myanmar to escape a new surge of violence in the ethnically divided region, another blow to persecuted Muslim Rohingyas already marginalised by a lack of opportunity. Residents have fled their homes in the area near the Bangladesh border on military helicopters and other army vehicles over the past week, fearing a repeat of widespread bloodshed between Buddhists and Rohingya that ravaged Rakhine state in 2012. Poor education has long been cited as one of the many ways that Myanmar sidelines the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority nation who are considered one of the most persecuted peoples in the world.

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