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• In survey, teachers report a post-election surge in bullying
• Textbooks Are the Education Ground Zero of America's Culture Wars
• For-profit colleges expect fortunes to improve under Trump
• Fire in Turkish dormitory kills 12, including 11 teenage girls: officials
• Building Food Justice in the City of Brotherly Love
• Graduate gets her high school teachers to answer her inappropriate questions
• 10 Colleges With the Highest Acceptance Rates
• Official: 2 students, driver killed in school bus crash

In survey, teachers report a post-election surge in bullying Posted: 29 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST Seventh-grade boys in Colorado were heard yelling "Heil Trump!," and at an elementary school in Michigan, some Muslim girls have stopped wearing hijabs. According to a report released by the SPLC this week, 90 percent of the educators who responded to the survey said that the election has had a negative impact on the overall mood and behavior of their students, with most also expressing concerns that the post-election fallout will continue to weigh heavily on their classrooms for the rest of the school year.

Textbooks Are the Education Ground Zero of America's Culture Wars Posted: 29 Nov 2016 03:41 PM PST It was billed as a way to teach Texas high school students about Latinos' overlooked contributions to Lone Star State history. The new Mexican American Heritage textbook, however, was so chock-full of errors, stereotypes, and racist sentiments that protesters demanded that school administrators block the book from ever appearing in classrooms. Under pressure, the state Board of Education relented, unanimously voting earlier this month to shelve the book and start again from scratch.

For-profit colleges expect fortunes to improve under Trump Posted: 29 Nov 2016 01:16 PM PST BOSTON (AP) — After nearing collapse under the Obama administration, the for-profit college industry is celebrating Donald Trump's election as a chance for a rebound.

Fire in Turkish dormitory kills 12, including 11 teenage girls: officials Posted: 29 Nov 2016 12:32 PM PST ANKARA (Reuters) - Twelve people, including eleven teenagers, were killed when a fire swept through a girls dormitory in the southern Turkish province of Adana on Tuesday, officials said. The fire, which broke out in a dormitory housing middle and high school students, may have been caused by an electrical fault, Omer Celik, a senior government official who represents the province in parliament, told broadcaster CNN Turk. At least twenty-two other girls were injured, Celik said. Also among the dead was a woman who worked at the dormitory. ...

Building Food Justice in the City of Brotherly Love Posted: 29 Nov 2016 12:20 PM PST Here's another image of Philadelphia, one less familiar than the Liberty Bell or the city's iconic LOVE sculpture: Twenty-two percent of the city is food insecure, according to Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap. Philadelphia also has the highest rate of deep poverty of any American city—that is, people living on half the income the federal government deems poverty level. "The situation here is pretty dire," Kathy Fisher of the Coalition Against Hunger told The Notebook, a publication of the Philadelphia public schools.

Graduate gets her high school teachers to answer her inappropriate questions Posted: 29 Nov 2016 11:22 AM PST Asking your high school teachers inappropriate personal questions is every student's dream.  High school graduate and Youtube user ElleoftheMills magically persuaded her former high school teachers to answer every question she'd wanted to ask them as their student, and they did not disappoint.  With questions like, "Do you have a priest outfit for every day of the week?" it seems like Elle was likely a super fun student to have in class. Sleepy baby won't let nap time put an end to a messy spaghetti feast Teen students design a robot that can successfully flip a water bottle Alexis Bledel surprises everyone with her favorite 'Gilmore Girls' characters Stoat has a hell of a good time on a patch of garden netting

10 Colleges With the Highest Acceptance Rates Posted: 29 Nov 2016 06:00 AM PST The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Among the 1,255 ranked schools that submitted these data to U.S. News in an annual survey, nine reported acceptance rates of 100 percent in fall 2015. Also on the list is Cameron University in Oklahoma, which admitted 99.7 percent.

Official: 2 students, driver killed in school bus crash Posted: 29 Nov 2016 05:11 AM PST NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Two female high school students and the driver of their school bus were killed when the vehicle collided head-on with a truck along a busy mountain road Tuesday, a Turkish Cypriot official said.

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