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• How teachers calm, educate students amid swirl of election emotions
• Veterans: 5 ways to maximize your GI Bill benefits
• How classrooms are dealing with a Trump win
• The Fate of the Undocumented Teachers for America
• Trump's broken promises anger Scottish village
• Left-wing Democrats Sanders, Warren extend olive branch to Trump

How teachers calm, educate students amid swirl of election emotions Posted: 10 Nov 2016 01:24 PM PST In Springdale, Ark., a second-grader from Mexico came to school Wednesday with tears in her eyes. She asked: "Does this mean we're going to have to get all the stuff out of our house?" says Justin Minkel, her teacher at Jones Elementary, where 99 percent of the students live in poverty, and 85 percent speak English as a second language.

Veterans: 5 ways to maximize your GI Bill benefits Posted: 10 Nov 2016 10:34 AM PST If you're a veteran, the GI Bill can be your ticket to a debt-free college education. That's huge, given that nearly 70 percent of 2015 graduates who left school with a bachelor's degree also carried student ...

How classrooms are dealing with a Trump win Posted: 10 Nov 2016 09:39 AM PST As crowds gathered in the streets of American cities to protest the election of Donald Trump, many elementary and high school students are confused at how Mr. Trump edged out an unexpected win and how a divided America can move forward. "It's definitely going to be a big change," Jackson, a sixth grade student at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Berkeley, Calif., told NPR on Wednesday during a teacher-facilitated discussion. The election of Trump – a presidential candidate celebrated by his followers for his hard-line stance on immigration, and disparaged by his opposition for, they say, being a racist, misogynist, and a bully – has posed a dilemma for teachers in the United States and Canada on whether they should lead conversations with their students about the president-elect.

The Fate of the Undocumented Teachers for America Posted: 10 Nov 2016 08:10 AM PST Among the many people in America reeling from yesterday's presidential election results: the 146 Teach for America teachers who work in classrooms across the country but are not documented citizens.

Trump's broken promises anger Scottish village Posted: 10 Nov 2016 05:15 AM PST In a Scottish village on the shores of the North Sea, US president-elect Donald Trump is nothing but a nuisance neighbour for many local residents. Locals also complain about the six-foot (1.8 metre) wall the billionaire developer had built around Trump International Golf Links, drawing an analogy with the barrier he is planning for the Mexican border. "This local area here was promised 1,400 jobs, a five-star hotel, two golf courses, an equestrian centre and God knows what else and we've got nothing," said Michael Foote, whose property overlooks the course.

Left-wing Democrats Sanders, Warren extend olive branch to Trump Posted: 09 Nov 2016 08:44 PM PST "Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media," the Vermont senator said in a statement following the Republican billionaire's surprise victory, which has sent shockwaves through the United States and around the world. "To the degree that Mr Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him," added Sanders, the left-leaning independent who called for a political revolution during his surprisingly strong but ultimately failed populist primary challenge to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Like Sanders -- who denounced what he called the corrupt influence of the country's wealthy elites on politics, and advocated free public college education and universal health care -- Trump honed a populist appeal to Americans who feel left behind by economic globalization and mounting inequity.

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