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Painful Parallels in School Safety Debate in U.S., Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria — Facing different but equally harrowing crises, parents and educators in the United States and northeast Nigeria are debating similarly drastic measures to improve school safety as a painful public reckoning plays out in both countries.As students hold walkouts across the U.S. amid a scourge of mass shootings, President Donald Trump’s proposal to […]

March 15, 2018

Students Around U.S. Stage Huge Walkout Against Gun Violence

They bowed their heads in honor of the dead. They carried signs with messages such as “Never again” and “Am I next?” They railed against the National Rifle Association and the politicians who support it. And over and over, they repeated the message: Enough is enough. In a wave of protests one historian called the […]

March 15, 2018

‘Multiple’ Fatalities When FL Bridge Collapses

MIAMI — A pedestrian bridge being built across an eight-lane highway collapsed at a Miami-area college Thursday, crushing eight vehicles under massive slabs and killing multiple people, authorities said. Search and rescue missions were underway. Eight people were taken to hospitals. The exact number of fatalities was not immediately known. “The main focus is to […]

March 15, 2018

#SpringRelease Clears Clutter, Eases Stress

At any moment in time, the state of our mental health depends on any number of simple and complicated internal and external factors. Stress is a major source of and contributor to that state of mental health. Whether mental or physical, clutter creates stress. Here’s a fun, rewarding way to declutter.

March 15, 2018

Why Colleges Must Fight the Wage Gap

The saying goes, “You should never wake a sleeping baby.” Today, the average wage gap between women and men is almost 80 cents to the dollar. If the “baby” is gender inequality in the workforce, the U.S. has done an exceptional job of keeping the baby asleep.

March 15, 2018

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Writers of Color Tackle Human Rights

At first glance, making the argument that human rights are important seems unnecessary. Particularly in America — whose founding document proclaims the “unalienable Rights” of all individuals — it would be difficult to find anyone willing to admit that human rights aren’t valuable.

March 15, 2018

Education Options

Unfortunately, the growing divide between the military and society was apparent last week when a teacher’s inaccurate and misinformed statements about the quality of America’s armed forces made national headlines. As a U.S. Army officer for more than 30 years, I can tell you our nation’s military services are among the most respected organizations in […]

March 15, 2018

Education Options

Parents: Military Ignored Girls’ Abuse on Base

The three military fathers sat at the commander’s conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help. They told the commander that their daughters were among a half-dozen girls sexually assaulted by a boy in their first-grade class at the base school. The principal had known about the boy’s behavior for months, […]

March 15, 2018

Girls Abused at Base School

AP Finds U.S. Military Overlooks Sex Abuse Among Kids on Bases

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and rapes among kids on military […]

March 15, 2018

Sex Abuse on Bases

Coursera Partners with Universities to Offer Online Degrees

In January 2012, Udacity was launched; then Coursera in April 2012, followed by edX in May 2012. Of course, these are the world’s leading online learning platforms offering MOOCs, or Massively Open Online Courses. Now Coursera is teaming up with several leading universities in the UK and U.S. to leverage its MOOCs platform to offer […]

March 15, 2018

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Bridgepoint wants to Convert Its Colleges to Non-Profts

Sunday we wrote about the new gold rush in education: for-profit colleges converting to non-profit status, allowing them to shed the stigma and special regulatory requirements of for-profits, notably the federal 90-10 rule, while retaining parallel for-profit entities that could keep getting paid by the non-profit, and thus keep getting rich off an endless flow of […]

March 15, 2018

Syracuse First in U.S. to Offer Online Law Program

Syracuse University College of Law is launching the nation’s first fully interactive online juris doctor program. First class of up to 65 students will begin program in January of 2019. The American Bar Association granted SU College of Law a variance to offer this fully interactive online juris doctor program. The online J.D. was subject to […]

March 15, 2018

Syracuse Online Law Program

Navy Wants to Expand Seal Training in Parks

The Navy wants to step up special-operations training at state parks along Western Washington coastlines, releasing a proposal that would more than quintuple the number of sites. The Navy currently has a permit to conduct exercises at five state parks. The preferred option in a planning document calls for the possible use of 29 parks ranging from […]

March 15, 2018

Seal Training in Parks

Army Vet Who Killed 3 Had Lost License

The Army veteran who killed three caregivers at a Napa Valley rehabilitation center for soldiers was licensed by the state to work as a security guard and carry a pistol on his hip for nearly a decade, but he failed to renew the permits last year, records show. The lapse came as the former serviceman, […]

March 15, 2018

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Community Colleges

San Diego Community College District Models Support for Men of Color

San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) has strategically increased its support of Hispanic and Black men in the last few years, making the district a leader in improving outcomes for the historically underserved groups.

March 14, 2018

Professor Retires After Six Decades at Morehouse

Morehouse College’s recent announcement of the retirement of veteran political science professor Dr. Tobe Johnson, Jr. signaled the end of an era for an academic legend.

March 14, 2018

Brown Cancels Exhibit of Rosa Parks Residence

Brown University has decided to cancel its plan to host an exhibit that included the home where civil rights icon Rosa Parks lived after she fled Alabama, where she had refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.

March 14, 2018

Five Things More Effective Than Political Panic

I have a confession to make: I’m a hard-core nerd fascinated by all things political. While political panic may seem like a natural response to our current state of political affairs, I offer five responses more effective than that.

March 14, 2018

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