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• Congress could undo Obama-era student loan relief
• The Hands of Trump’s New Secretary of Education Might Already Be Tied
• San Francisco teachers union offers anti-Trump lesson plan: Going too far?
• Baltimore teacher fired after video shows her using N word in classroom
• Outcry as Pakistan deports teachers linked to Turkish coup suspect
• Dalai Lama to visit Mongolia, possibly sparking China anger
• College Students Solved The 'Facebook Fake News' Problem In Two Days
• San Francisco teachers union offers Trump lesson plan
• Testing times as South Korean students sit for college exam

Congress could undo Obama-era student loan relief Posted: 17 Nov 2016 04:37 PM PST The U.S. Congress could as soon as January start to dismantle President Barack Obama's transformation of student loan rules by blocking freshly minted regulations designed to help students who say they were defrauded by for-profit colleges. The new measures, which lay out loan relief procedures for the students, were issued by the Department of Education just days before the election. It gives Congress 60 legislative days to reverse regulations with a simple vote.

The Hands of Trump’s New Secretary of Education Might Already Be Tied Posted: 17 Nov 2016 04:32 PM PST Now that Donald Trump is the next president, and given his rhetoric against traditional public schools, the nation's students, parents, and teachers want to know: Will the president-elect take a sledgehammer to public education? Considering the issue largely took a backseat to immigration and the economy during the election, analysts have a better question: Does Trump have a plan for public education—and who will he appoint to oversee it? "What [education] will look like under Trump, I really don't know," Catherine Brown, vice president for education policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, told TakePart.

San Francisco teachers union offers anti-Trump lesson plan: Going too far? Posted: 17 Nov 2016 12:50 PM PST "Educators have a role to play to help them [students]  make sense of the new reality, especially those who come from the communities who have been attacked by Trump, and who now face a very uncertain future," the union wrote in its newsletter. Last week, more than 2,000 San Francisco high school students staged a citywide anti-Trump walkout and mass demonstrations. "Teachers often have a really difficult time to decide when to step in," Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., tells The Christian Science Monitor.

Baltimore teacher fired after video shows her using N word in classroom Posted: 17 Nov 2016 12:32 PM PST A Baltimore teacher was fired after this viral video showed her calling students "idiots" and using the N word Wednesday morning. According to a statement by the Baltimore City Public Schools, the teacher is no longer employed.

Outcry as Pakistan deports teachers linked to Turkish coup suspect Posted: 17 Nov 2016 08:53 AM PST Pakistan's decision to deport dozens of Turkish teachers was "politically-motivated", Amnesty International said Thursday, and sparked small demonstrations in major cities as Turkey's president wrapped up a state visit to the country. Pakistan confirmed Wednesday it had ordered the deportation of 130 teachers along with school staff and their families -- some 450 people in total -- by November 20. The private PakTurk International schools are allegedly backed by US-based Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen's Hizmet group.

Dalai Lama to visit Mongolia, possibly sparking China anger Posted: 17 Nov 2016 07:39 AM PST ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — The Dalai Lama will visit Mongolia this week, Buddhist leaders said Thursday, potentially sparking an angry response from China.

College Students Solved The 'Facebook Fake News' Problem In Two Days Posted: 17 Nov 2016 04:50 AM PST It turns out that a few college students beat us, and Zuckerberg, to the punch with a new Chrome extension called FiB. FiB is a third-party link verifier. Once you install the Chrome extension and hit Facebook, it checks the links, images and other data using keyword extraction, source verification, and image recognition.

San Francisco teachers union offers Trump lesson plan Posted: 17 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's public schools have been offered a classroom lesson plan that calls President-elect Donald Trump a racist, sexist man who became president "by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base."

Testing times as South Korean students sit for college exam Posted: 16 Nov 2016 09:15 PM PST Financial markets stayed closed and aircraft grounded as students in South Korea sat down on Thursday morning for the annual college entrance exam that could make or break their careers. Some 600,000 high school students will take the grueling eight-hour exam to determine if and where they will spend four years in higher education, with anxious parents heading to places of worship to pray for their children. The students, including those retaking the exam, were overwhelmed with well-wishes and gifts of sticky rice cake, said to bring good luck.

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