Education

Amid Application Season, Seniors Consider A New Criterion: Race Relations

4:39pm November 26, 2015

by Cheryl Corley

The surge of students protesting how colleges handle racial issues is making some incoming freshmen think more about race and safety on campus when choosing the university they want to attend.

In Bid To Welcome Refugees, Campaign Hopes To Make 'Every Campus A Refuge'

4:15pm November 26, 2015

Diya Abdo, a professor at Guilford College, has launched Every Campus a Refuge, a project that aims to get every college and university campus to host one Syrian refugee family.

Student protesters staged an Occupy-style protest inside Occidental's Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center for nearly a week.

Education

Protesting Racial Bias, Students Trade Placards For Pillows

9:30am November 25, 2015

by Kirk Siegler

Inspired by the events at Mizzou, students at Occidental College in Los Angeles recently got administrators to agree to a list of demands and are pledging to hold them accountable.

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Parent and child hand turkeys have a heart to heart.

How To Talk To Kids About Thanksgiving

7:33am November 25, 2015

by Meg Anderson

Thanksgiving is a holiday with a complicated history. So some teachers have developed strategies to teach it to young students.

In 2008, President George W. Bush addressed his No Child Left Behind act. Congress now appears ready to overhaul the law, which is the nation's most important federal education act.

Goodbye, No Child Left Behind

6:22pm November 24, 2015

by Claudio Sanchez

Congress appears ready to overhaul the nation's most important federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Civil rights groups, though, worry that some changes will hurt poor and minority children.

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Attending a new charter school, Jann Peña has had to get used to wearing a uniform daily and being in class an hour and a half later each afternoon. Here, he watches classmates during a group project.

A Mother Hangs Her Hopes On A New High School

12:32pm November 24, 2015

by Sara Neufeld

No school can succeed without the support of the families who send their children there.

CNN's 'The Hunting Ground' Scrutinized For Portrayal Of Campus Sexual Assault

7:39pm November 23, 2015

by David Folkenflik

CNN's documentary The Hunting Ground makes the case that universities are letting rapists walk free and has come under withering attack for ignoring facts that contradict the film's claims.

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