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• Preteens who mistrust teachers less likely to reach college
• Two British schools trialling body cameras for teachers
• Tools Help Families, Student Loan Borrowers Claim Education Tax Credits
• 10 Advantages of Federal Student Loans
• Try suffocating kittens, Indian textbook tells kids
• Turkey sacks 4,400 more civil servants, including teachers and police

Preteens who mistrust teachers less likely to reach college Posted: 08 Feb 2017 12:23 PM PST By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Students of color who perceive biased treatment from middle school teachers may be less likely to attend college than if they trusted instructors to treat them fairly, a small study suggests. "We don't think the discrimination and bias, by itself, had this effect," said lead study author David Yeager, a psychology researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and co-chair of the Mindset Scholars Network at Stanford University in California. "Instead, we think these experiences made students disengage from the system," Yeager added by email.

Two British schools trialling body cameras for teachers Posted: 08 Feb 2017 07:42 AM PST By Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) - Teachers at two British schools are trialling the use of police-style body cameras to help maintain discipline, a survey revealed on Wednesday, prompting a civil liberties group to warn that teachers could be turned into snoopers. "The aim is to reduce constant low level classroom disruption which is reducing the effectiveness of teaching," said Tom Ellis, a lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth who will be advising the schools trialling the cameras. "Teachers are actually very concerned that they're spending their time managing order in the classroom instead of actually teaching," said Ellis, adding that students might become more aware of their behaviour if they knew it was being filmed.

Tools Help Families, Student Loan Borrowers Claim Education Tax Credits Posted: 08 Feb 2017 07:00 AM PST For those earning a degree, paying for college or repaying student loans, you may be eligible to claim several higher education-related tax credits and deductions. Consumers often get confused as to which credit or deduction they should claim -- this week's post aims to give you tools to help clarify eligibility factors. The IRS offers important resources to help consumers understand their credit and deduction eligibility.

10 Advantages of Federal Student Loans Posted: 08 Feb 2017 06:00 AM PST Most college students these days take out student loans to pay for the cost of higher education. In fact, 68 percent of college seniors who graduated from a public or nonprofit college in 2015 had student loans, according to a study by the Institute of College Access and Success. Here are 10 benefits of taking out a federal student loan.

Try suffocating kittens, Indian textbook tells kids Posted: 08 Feb 2017 01:19 AM PST An Indian publisher has caused a furore with a school textbook that encourages children to suffocate kittens as part of a scientific experiment. The book, which is used in hundreds of private schools in India, includes an experiment in which two kittens were placed in separate boxes -- only one of which had airholes. "Put a small kitten in each box.

Turkey sacks 4,400 more civil servants, including teachers and police Posted: 07 Feb 2017 11:01 PM PST Turkey has dismissed more than 4,400 civil servants including teachers, police officers and academics over their suspected links with terrorist organizations, a decree showed late on Tuesday, in the latest purge since a failed coup last July. Ibrahim Kaboglu, a prominent constitution professor who has expressed opposition to planned constitutional changes giving President Tayyip Erdogan greater executive powers, was among those ousted under the decree published in the Official Gazette. Court clerks, computer experts and librarians were also among 4,464 sacked, part of a crackdown since the July coup bid which Turkey says was carried out by U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.

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