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Mindfulness Transforms Culture At High-Needs Elementary School

6:57am February 20, 2020

A struggling elementary school in East Nashville, Tenn., is incorporating mindfulness, but experts caution that mindfulness is not a panacea and programs should follow scientific guidelines.

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Food Fight: How 2 Trump Proposals Could Bite Into School Lunch

8:18pm February 19, 2020

by Cory Turner

The pending federal rule changes could push a million kids off free or reduced-price school meals, at least temporarily.

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One Woman's Quest To Preserve The Radio Archives At Historically Black Colleges

8:04am February 16, 2020

by Sophia Alvarez Boyd

Radio producer Jocelyn Robinson is trying to save archival audio and help historically black colleges and universities start thinking about the importance of preserving their precious history.

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UC Santa Cruz Grad Students Strike For Higher Pay As Housing Costs Skyrocket

8:25am February 15, 2020

by Erika Mahoney

Graduate students at the University of California Santa Cruz are on strike. Teaching assistants are calling for higher pay to cope with the city's high cost of living.

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An Indian University Is Trying To Innovate What Students Learn — And How They Learn It

8:25am February 15, 2020

by Anya Kamenetz

India has more young people than any other country in the world and that means, the country needs many more college classrooms.

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Mass Text From State Superintendent Sparks Ethics Complaints

10:51am February 14, 2020

by Neal Charnoff

A number of ethics complaints have been filed against North Carolina State Superintendent Mark Johnson. The complaints are related to a mass text Johnson sent to parents and teachers.

Harkness Tower on Yale University's campus in 2016. The Department of Education said Yale failed to disclosed a total of $375 million in foreign money.

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Harvard, Yale Accused Of Failing To Report Hundreds Of Millions In Foreign Donations

4:37pm February 13, 2020

The Ivy League schools have been singled out in a federal crackdown on institutions of higher learning for allegedly not reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign donations.

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Education Department Probes Harvard, Yale Over Foreign Funding

7:00am February 13, 2020

by Cory Turner

The Department of Education has announced that it is investigating two elite U.S. universities: Harvard and Yale. The government says they potentially failed to report foreign gifts and contracts.

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News Brief: Democratic Candidates, Education Probe, Border Detainees

6:55am February 13, 2020

Early nominating contests fail to resolve Democratic Party's divide. The Education Department probes Harvard and Yale funds. And, why scores of Iranian-Americans were detained at a border crossing.

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Howard University students walk near the university's main gate.

Howard University's Largest Donation Ever Raises Questions About Who Gets Donor Coins

8:10pm February 11, 2020

by Jenny Gathright

The largest gift in Howard University's history — a $10 million investment in its STEM program — has sparked a larger conversation: which institutions get private donor money, and why.

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