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• High school student tells Betsy DeVos exactly how her policies would hurt her
• Kenya university teachers follow doctors in nationwide strike
• Can School Choice Work in Rural Areas?
• Complete a Bachelor's Degree Online After Community College
• Gambia's vice president quits after two decades in role -sources
• Gambia's vice president quits after two decades in role: sources
• Islamic State kills 12 in Palmyra, among them teachers, soldiers: monitor
• Czech bubble artist surrounds 275 students with soap 'screen' to claim record

High school student tells Betsy DeVos exactly how her policies would hurt her Posted: 19 Jan 2017 03:14 PM PST Betsy Devos' confirmation hearing didn't go well, but Dannah Wilson's speech was a different story.   In a speech delivered to the AFL-CIO, Michigan student Dannah Wilson delivered an emphatic and thoughtful statement about how Department of Education nominee Betsy DeVos's policies would probe hurtful to students everywhere.  DeVos spent years in Michigan, where Dannah Wilson is a student, pushing for the privatization of the public education system as well as helping foster the spread of charter schools. Both of these movements, among other factors contributed to a stressful education experience for Wilson, who claims her and her siblings have collectively attended 22 different schools.  Wilson is a Detroit high schooler and volunteer at 482Forward, a non-profit organization dedicated to, "creating a Detroit where every student graduates ready to become a fully engaged participant in the world, equipped with the character and the capacity to negotiate her environment and change it for the better." Wilson certainly embodies that message.  Within 24 hours of being posted the speech was shared by the American Federation for Teachers and racked up more than 3 million views.  Gorillaz return after 6 years with anti-Trump music video Top 10 best uses of color in a movie ever Jazzy cover of NSYNC's 'Bye Bye Bye' makes us nostalgic for our childhoods 'Overwatch' player does spot-on Rick and Morty impressions

Kenya university teachers follow doctors in nationwide strike Posted: 19 Jan 2017 08:00 AM PST University lecturers in Kenya began a strike over pay Thursday, joining doctors who walked out in early December, crippling the country's healthcare. The strike was called by the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) to protest government failure to implement a four-year-old agreement to increase wages by at least 50 percent. Union chairman Muga K'Olale said failure to have their demands met had led to a "massive brain drain in public universities".

Can School Choice Work in Rural Areas? Posted: 19 Jan 2017 07:10 AM PST Education Secretary-nominee Betsy DeVos offered little clarification of her policy goals at Tuesday's Senate confirmation hearing, but one thing is certain: The Michigan billionaire is in favor of school choice. She has backed charter schools and voucher programs in the past, though she is adamant that this position does not equate to being anti-public school. At the hearing, both Republican Senator Mike Enzi, who represents Wyoming, and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, brought up the unique challenges rural states face in education structure and financing. Both spoke of the distance issues students in frontier areas combat to physically get to non-public schools, and Murkowski referenced her constituents who are concerned about what happens when "there is no way to get to an alternative option for your child." This structural problem—further entrenched by the reality that there are simply fewer students to populate new schools that might open—presents a tangled web of unequal supply and demand for charter schools. The "choice" aspect of school choice is not always realistic.

Complete a Bachelor's Degree Online After Community College Posted: 19 Jan 2017 06:30 AM PST For Nathan Legleiter, a Kansas resident who works as a compliance analyst at a bank, community college was just the first step of a post-secondary education. During his first semester, Legleiter learned about a "2+2" option, or online bachelor's completion program, that would enable him to seamlessly transfer credits to the Kansas State University Global Campus, the school's online arm for adult learners. Attending Barton Community College not only allowed the 2015 graduate to save some money on tuition, he says, but also provided him with face-to-face student support nearby and the flexibility of online learning alongside his job and family responsibilities.

Gambia's vice president quits after two decades in role -sources Posted: 19 Jan 2017 02:18 AM PST BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy, who has been in the role since 1997, has quit, a government source and a family member told Reuters on Thursday. Saidy is the highest level official to abandon President Yahya Jammeh's camp in his stand-off with opposition leader Adama Barrow, who won an election in December. Abubakar Senghore, Gambia's minister for higher education, has also quit, the sources said. (Reporting by Tim Cocks; Writing by David Lewis; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Gambia's vice president quits after two decades in role: sources Posted: 19 Jan 2017 01:59 AM PST BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's Vice President Isatou Njie Saidy, who has been in the role since 1997, has quit, a government source and a family member told Reuters on Thursday. Saidy is the highest level official to abandon President Yahya Jammeh's camp in his stand-off with opposition leader Adama Barrow, who won an election in December. Abubakar Senghore, Gambia's minister for higher education, has also quit, the sources said. (Reporting by Tim Cocks; Writing by David Lewis; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Islamic State kills 12 in Palmyra, among them teachers, soldiers: monitor Posted: 19 Jan 2017 12:41 AM PST Islamic State militants put at least 12 people to death in execution-style killings in the ancient city of Palmyra, which they re-captured from the government for a second time in December, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday. The eight others - four of them government soldiers and four of them rebel fighters captured elsewhere in Syria - were shot. Some of the killings took place at an ancient Roman theater in Palmyra, where Islamic State last year put at least 25 government fighters to death, the Observatory said.

Czech bubble artist surrounds 275 students with soap 'screen' to claim record Posted: 19 Jan 2017 12:16 AM PST A Czech performer of bubble art surrounded 275 high school students and a car with a single soap-bubble screen on Wednesday, breaking the national record. Matej Kodes raised the screen around a rectangular 11 metre-by-7.5 meter area, enclosing those inside for a few seconds. Kodes, who has performed since 2008, achieved a Guinness World Record in 2014 for "most people inside a soap bubble", which at that time stood at 214.

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