Education
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Report finds first-generation college students graduate at lower rates
First-generation college students are entering higher education and graduate school in record numbers.
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App offers alternative to classroom phone ban
As the concern over cell phones in the classroom rises, banning them from schools will not solve the deep-rooted issue, says the founder of Opal, a phone app that helps users with daily screen time and blocks games and social media. The movement to ban the
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Education Department to start garnishing wages next year for those who defaulted on student loans
The department said that it will begin sending notices to approximately 1,000 defaulted borrowers in the first week of January. The number of notices will then increase each month.
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Brown University places police chief on leave in aftermath of shooting
The Trump administration opened its probe earlier Monday and Paxson said Brown will commission its own review of campus safety and the response to the Dec. 13 shooting, which killed two students.
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Trump administration announces investigation into Brown University over campus shooting
The department highlighted allegations that the university's campus surveillance and security system were not up-to-date at the time of the shooting, and that its emergency notifications about the active shooter were delayed.
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San Diego school district teaches young kids 28 sexual orientations, 9 gender identities: report
Resources taken from LGBTQ activist groups such as The Trevor Project, which tells kids about orientations such as "aeogosexual" and "queer demisexual."
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UC Berkeley, Pomona College settle discrimination cases with Jewish professor, students
“I respect and appreciate Dr. Nativ’s decision to settle this case,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said
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Anti-white language tweaked after civil rights complaints against Harvard, WA school district
Scholarship for "students of color" changed to "historically marginalized communities" hours after news report. "Educators of Color" re-upped a year after legal warning, says open to all but allegedly hidden from nonwhites.
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Tennessee county school board opposes immigration checks for public schools
Knox County Board of Education argued public schools exist to educate all children.
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Florida tests drones in schools to stop shootings
The Florida Legislature approved $557,000 to fund the pilot program in Broward, Leon and Volusia school districts.
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West Virginia Board of Education reinstates school vaccine policy excluding religious exemptions
The state's education board said that it "is reinstating its directive to county boards of education not to accept religious exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws"
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In New York, some school secretaries make six-figures and more
Watchdog says high salaries help account for school districts’ high spending
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Northwestern University secures $75 million deal with Trump administration to restore funding
Northwestern is expected to pay the United States $75 million through 2028 in exchange for ending probes by the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice.