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A 5th-grade student gave a first-person speech dressed as Hitler. The teacher and school’s principal are now on administrative leave.

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Summary List Placement Two staff members have been placed on administrative leave after a fifth-grade student at a New Jersey elementary school gave a first-person speech as Adolf Hitler to his class, according to a statement by Tenafly Public Schools Superintendent Shauna C. DeMarco. The student at Maugham Elementary School dressed as the Nazi dictator […]

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26 spectacular books that made it onto college summer reading lists this year at universities around the country

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  Summary List Placement Every summer, universities around the country release their recommended summer books and reading lists for incoming students.  This year, schools like Columbia, Duke, UC Berkeley, NYU, Northwestern, and more shared their 2021 reading lists online. They included books like “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” “The Vanishing Half,” “The Alchemist,” “The […]

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U.S Department of Education Releases COVID-19 Handbook Volume 3: Strategies for Safe Operation and Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff

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Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) released the COVID-19 Handbook Volume 3: Strategies for Safe Operation and Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff to provide additional strategies for higher education institutions (IHEs) and communities as they work to reopen for in-person instruction safely and equitably. details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received […]

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Biden Administration Launches COVID-19 College Challenge to Get More Young People Vaccinated

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Today, the Department of Education announced more details on the COVID-19 College Challenge, where colleges and universities take a pledge and commit to taking action to get their college communities vaccinated. The COVID-19 College Challenge is part of the Biden Administration’s month of action in June encouraging Americans to get vaccinated and aims to accelerate […]

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The 29 best feminist books and novels to read in 2021, recommended by women’s and gender studies professors

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  Summary List Placement Feminism is a powerful social and political movement that calls for economic, cultural, social, and political equality for women. As such, the movement makes its greatest strides when it’s intersectional — which is why books that explore feminism across class, race, gender identity, ability, and sexuality help foster greater inclusion and […]

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An entrepreneur spent $30,000 on a master’s degree before starting her own HR company. Here’s why she’s glad she went to grad school.

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Summary List Placement In 2015, Toronto-based Eropa Stein was finishing up her three-year master’s program in forensic psychology on her way to a PhD, an endeavor she’d planned out for 10 years and sunk approximately $30,000 into. But instead of staying in academia after getting her degree, the newly minted grad founded Hyre Staff, a […]

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Parents in China are snapping up a $120 smart lamp that has 2 surveillance cameras to keep an eye on their kids while they do their homework

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Summary List Placement Parents in China are rushing to buy a $120 smart lamp that’s equipped with surveillance cameras to help them keep a watchful eye on their kids while they’re doing homework, Liza Lin reported for The Wall Street Journal. Made by TikTok owner ByteDance, the Dali Smart Lamp comes with two cameras: one […]

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Publisher Walter Hussman lobbied UNC against hiring 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones at the journalism school named for him: report

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Summary List Placement Walter Hussman, the newspaper publisher whose name adorns the University of North Carolina’s journalism school, warned the university against hiring New York Times magazine journalist and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, according to emails obtained by the digital magazine The Assembly. Hussman, an alumnus whose $25 million donation to the school in […]

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MOOCs are ‘massive open online courses,’ made popular by platforms like edX and Coursera. Here’s how they work — and why they’re one of the best ways to learn online

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  Summary List Placement If you’re interested in online learning, you’ve probably heard the term MOOC — Massive Open Online Course — before. But you might have questions about what they are, what exactly “open” means, how much they cost, or how they generally differ from other forms of e-learning, like apps or online degrees. […]

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Statement by Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on the President’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget

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The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s budget for fiscal year 2022. As the Administration continues to make progress defeating the pandemic and getting our economy back on track, the budget makes historic investments that will help the country build back better and lay the foundation for shared growth and prosperity for decades […]

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An inside look at Stanford Graduate School of Business’ pivot to remote learning — and why it plans to keep some of its innovations post-pandemic

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Summary List Placement Grace Lyo‘s role as assistant dean and director of teaching and learning at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) was created two years ago, just in time to establish her team before COVID-19 came around.  She’s since been heavily involved in helping the MBA program not just transition to virtual learning — […]

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The CEO of Coursera, a $6 billion education company, wants to help everyone build the skills to future-proof their careers

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Summary List Placement Late last February, after Japan’s prime minister closed every school in the country due to a novel respiratory infection that beset the region, Jeff Maggioncalda made a prediction. Maggioncalda, the CEO of the online-learning platform Coursera, was on his way to an airport in Texas after visiting Rice University. But before boarding […]

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Secretary Cardona Holds Virtual Roundtable to Discuss the Importance of Providing Pell Grants for Incarcerated Individuals

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This afternoon, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona held a virtual roundtable to showcase the importance of providing Pell Grants for incarcerated individuals by speaking with students and former students who took college courses in prison. This session allowed the Secretary to hear directly from students who have gone through college in prison programs and provided insight […]

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This free UPenn course explains how COVID-19 vaccines work, and it’s led by a scientist who helped create them

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  Summary List Placement As Americans continue to get vaccinated, it’s normal to have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines, from their effectiveness to how they actually work.  Now, you can find out: Partnered with the University of Pennsylvania, edX just launched a free online course that explains the science behind the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. It’s […]

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Meet billionaire investor Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs who spends much of her $21 billion on charity and says her kids won’t inherit the fortune (AAPL)

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Summary List Placement Laurene Powell Jobs is much more than just Steve Jobs’ widow.  The 57-year-old billionaire is a formidable presence in investing circles, with a net worth of $21.7 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. Powell Jobs has used the multi-billion-dollar fortune she inherited after the Apple cofounder’s death in 2011 to expand her […]

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10 great Coursera online master’s degree programs you can apply to this summer, from data science to public health

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  Summary List Placement Coursera is probably best known for its free course options, from a Yale psychology class on how to be happy to an immensely popular Stanford machine learning course. It also offers short-term certificate programs from companies like Google and IBM. But it also has master’s degree programs — remote, accessible, and […]

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17 MIT computer science classes you can take online for free

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  Summary List Placement edX, an e-learning non-profit founded by MIT and Harvard, offers free and affordable online classes to improve education accessibility to 25 million students. The site is partnered with more than 90 of the world’s leading universities, non-profits, and NGOs to offer courses from Java programming to the Science of Happiness for […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is being sued for allegedly stealing a professor’s business idea (AAPL)

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Summary List Placement In early 2011, at a luncheon at Sacramento’s Hyatt Regency hotel, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak clasped hands with a Connecticut business professor named Ralph Reilly. According to Reilly, the pair had agreed to establish a futuristic “tech university,” sealing the deal with an on-camera handshake. It was an ambitious plan for a […]

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UC Berkeley’s free Science of Happiness course taught me simple ways to connect with the people I love and appreciate what I have

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  Summary List Placement Have you ever wondered why you feel happy when doing something for other people, or when you build new relationships?  One online class – and the first-ever massive open online course (MOOC) on the topic of positive psychology – aims to dive into the science behind the everyday actions that make […]

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The Kellogg School of Management launched a new class using poker to teach women crucial leadership skills. A student shares what it’s like.

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Summary List Placement In mid-April, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University teamed up with Poker Pow her — a community that teaches women “game-changing skills” like strategy, confidence, and capital allocation — to create a new extracurricular pilot program. “Many top business schools, including the Kellogg School of Management, have more than 40% female […]

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Washington State’s Melito Ramirez Named America’s First ‘Recognizing Inspiring School Employees (RISE)’ Awardee

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U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced today the selection of Melito Ramirez, an intervention specialist at Walla Walla High School in Washington state, as the nation’s first Recognizing Inspiring School Employees (RISE) awardee.  This new honor, established by Congress in 2019, spotlights classified school employees’ outstanding contributions to quality K-12 education in the United […]

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Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Virtual Public Hearing to Gather Information for the Purpose of Improving Enforcement of Title IX

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced a virtual public hearing to be held from June 7, 2021, to June 11, 2021, to gather information for improving enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The notice for the public hearing is available here, and the official hearing notice will […]

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3 former Lambda School students are taking legal action against the coding bootcamp over claims it misrepresented its job placement success rate

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Summary List Placement Three former Lambda School students are taking legal action against the coding bootcamp over accusations that it misrepresented its job placement rate, according to the National Student Legal Defense Network, which filed arbitration cases on their behalf on Thursday.   Lambda School, which has raised $129.53 million from investors like GV (formerly Google […]

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Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid Denies Reinstatement Application of For-Profit Law School

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Today, the office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) in the U.S. Department of Education (ED) informed Florida Coastal School of Law that its application for reinstatement to participate in federal student aid programs has been denied. details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted web source: Website of U.S. Department of Education

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27 fast-paced books you can finish in one day

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  Summary List Placement It is undeniably satisfying to start and finish a whole book in one day. When I haven’t read a book in a while and want to feel like I accomplished something even while I’m relaxing, I love to grab a short, great book or a novel that’s so fast-paced and fascinating […]

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U.S. Department of Education Announces 161 Students from Across the Country As 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholars

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U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona today announced the 57th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, recognizing 161 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education fields. details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted web source: Website of U.S. Department of Education

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Biden could be the most pro-labor president in decades. These 80 government power players will take a major role in shaping policy during his administration.

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Summary List Placement A year ago, the pandemic thrust a public health crisis and widespread layoffs onto an American working class already burdened by decades of rising economic inequality and eroding protections on the job. Months later, George Floyd’s murder forced the country to once again reckon with its extensive racial disparities, which pervade American […]