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25May

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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...

Explore U.S. History at our Nation’s Most Hallowed Ground

25May

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Explore U.S. History at our Nation’s Most Hallowed Ground

Explore U.S. History at our Nation’s Most Hallowed GroundArlington National Cemetery (ANC) is considered America’s most hallowed ground and a sacred shrine to service and sacrifice. More than 400,000 people are laid to rest at ANC including former presidents, astronauts, civil rights activists, medical professionals, and prominent military figures. ANC recently launched an education program for students, families, and lifelong learners. The program aims to honor the sacrifices and extraordinary lives of American service members and their families, support remembrance of the past and present military conflicts and circumstances surrounding them, and invite personal exploration of connections to America’s diverse history. As the school year draws to a close, this program provides a great su...

Admission into Foreign Universities during the Time of Pandemic

25May

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Admission into Foreign Universities during the Time of Pandemic

Admission into Foreign Universities during the Time of PandemicIf you were planning to begin your higher studies abroad this year or the past year, chances are Covid-19 pandemic has already ruined your plan. Or maybe you’re wondering about studying abroad next year but you’re not sure whether your application will be affected. With travel restrictions and new visa rules, Covid-19 has crushed the dreams of millions of Indian students looking to study abroad. Let alone the practical challenges, they’re simply unwilling to go and live abroad at this time of global uncertainty. Amid such chaos and confusion, we’ve put together some important information for you. Read on to know about admission to foreign universities during this unprecedented time. Admission into Foreign Universities are S...

12 Books Every High School Student Should Read Before College

25May

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12 Books Every High School Student Should Read Before College

12 Books Every High School Student Should Read Before CollegeRead these books before you start college to prepare to get the most from the experience! Both fiction and nonfiction books are on this list, but each will help you earn admission to and survive in college, whether it be by promoting your education, helping you to develop life skills, or giving you something to talk about in college interviews! To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee This is an American classic, and if you haven’t read it for a high school class, definitely read it for college. It’s an excellent book to use to study for the reading comprehension of the SAT, and once you’ve read it, you’ll understand so many more literary quips your college professors will make. It will also provide a little insight for your history c...

Does Character Education Add Value to Your Child’s Academic Growth?

25May

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Does Character Education Add Value to Your Child’s Academic Growth?

Does Character Education Add Value to Your Child’s Academic Growth?Nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. — Benjamin Franklin Character can be defined as the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. Before anything else, what does education constitute in layman terms? You must have guessed world-class academic coaching with some extra-curricular activities that could assist the former. It’s a bummer that we take character education which is ideally meant to be on top of our priority list for granted. Even now, if you’re questioning the importance of character education, we can delve right into details of Why is character education important? Research shows that the students who have been exposed to charact...

24May

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Pressure continues against campus critics of China

Pressure continues against campus critics of ChinaExiled activist and politician Nathan Law is no stranger to efforts to silence him — if he returns to Hong Kong, he will undoubtedly face arrest under the national security law. But a recent incident with Law at the University of Chicago is a reminder that, even on campuses far outside of Hong Kong and China, the right to speak critically of China is subject to debate. Allegations that the invitation to Law “falls outside the purviews of free speech” Last week, Law shared that his invitation to take part in a “Distinguished Guest” series at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy was opposed by the executive board of the university’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association, which “firmly request[ed]” that the school’s d...

Live Education Events Are Back. But if They Host It, Will You Come?

24May

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Live Education Events Are Back. But if They Host It, Will You Come?

Live Education Events Are Back. But if They Host It, Will You Come?After a grueling and prolonged pandemic, the days of stacked education conference calendars spanning the globe and events pulling in thousands of attendees might almost seem like a relic of bygone era. Yet recently, a light at the end of the tunnel has flickered into view. Fourteen months after lockdowns and seemingly endless uncertainty sent the events industry into virtual hibernation, a cautious cluster of education conferences now list in-person dates through the rest of the year, according to an education events tracker co-managed by EdSurge. With a few exceptions, including the higher-ed behemoth Educause and the startup- and investor-focused ASU+GSV Summit, most are small specialty conferences expected to attract a f...

24May

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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...

Can Universities Have a ‘Normal’ Fall If International Students Can’t Get to Campus?

24May

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Can Universities Have a ‘Normal’ Fall If International Students Can’t Get to Campus?

Can Universities Have a ‘Normal’ Fall If International Students Can’t Get to Campus?Though universities are hopeful that the vaccine rollout will return a sense of normalcy to the fall semester, a question remains about international students whose plans were curtailed by the pandemic. Will they make it to campus in time? Experts say that while students have been exempted from coronavirus-related travel restrictions, overseas U.S. consulate shutdowns and backlogs could leave them waiting for their visas until September. “Remember they’re not just processing visas for new students in the 2021-2022 academic year, but also our freshman class for last year. We’ve been told that once a consulate is up and fully operational, it’ll be several months before they work through the backlog,” says Sar...

3 Questions for EdTech & Publishing Expert, David Harris

24May

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3 Questions for EdTech & Publishing Expert, David Harris

3 Questions for EdTech & Publishing Expert, David Harris David Harris is the Editor In Chief of OpenStax at Rice University. David graciously agreed to answer my questions: Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed here are those of David Harris and do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of OpenStax. Q1: How has the pandemic impacted the broader OER (open educational resource) movement, and OpenStax specifically? The pandemic has left no part of the education ecosystem untouched, and OER is no different. A recent Bay View Analytics report suggests that overall faculty awareness of OER has grown during the pandemic. When the country went into lockdown in March 2020 we saw a massive migration online to synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences. In the 9 months th...

Yearbook Photos of Girls Were Altered to Hide More of Their Chests

24May

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Yearbook Photos of Girls Were Altered to Hide More of Their Chests

Yearbook Photos of Girls Were Altered to Hide More of Their Chests There had been rumors all day that the yearbook photos had been altered, said Riley O’Keefe, a ninth grader at Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, Fla. When she finally got her copy, Ms. O’Keefe, 15, opened the page to her photo and laughed in disbelief. A black bar had been added to cover more of her chest, she said. Then, Ms. O’Keefe thumbed through the rest of the yearbook. Dozens of other students — all girls — had similar edits, many of them clumsy alterations that covered more of their chests. Ms. O’Keefe said she had been confused at first, then furious. Other girls approached her and said the alterations made them feel sexualized and exposed. Many students and parents are now demanding an apology. Th...

With New Online Marketplace, Community Colleges Hope to Better Compete With For-Profits

23May

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With New Online Marketplace, Community Colleges Hope to Better Compete With For-Profits

With New Online Marketplace, Community Colleges Hope to Better Compete With For-ProfitsCommunity colleges are staking a claim in the territory of online course marketplaces. They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012, the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. But leaders of a new platform called Unmudl say the time is right for community colleges to collaborate and make their workforce-training programs available more widely by marketing them through a shared website. It’s a vision quite different from the traditional mission of community colleges to serve their communities—the literal, physical ones that surround their campuses. “They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need t...

23May

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Defending online internships (opinion)

Defending online internships (opinion)To the Editor: The article headlined “Online Internships Fail to Meet Expectations,” casts a shadow on virtual internships, but I have seen firsthand the many promising outcomes that have come out of remote experiences. NAF, a national nonprofit bringing together education, business and community leaders to transform the high school experience, has worked with its robust network to pivot in these challenging times and continue to offer students quality internships. For example, during summer 2020, NAF academies and its network of employer partners hosted more than 500 virtual high school interns. Contrary to the report, in a post-internship survey, NAF participants reported being satisfied with the 2020 virtual internship experiences (96 percent). Be...

23May

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox On one recent morning, the advanced biology class at the Utah County Academy of Sciences faced a grim assignment. Seated at folding tables and speaking through face masks, students at this STEM-focused charter high school tallied Covid-19 infection and death rates from one winter week — comparing national and statewide data with the virus’s toll at their school. Fortunately, the school’s disease numbers weren’t real. Led by Micah Ross, a biology teacher, the academy was piloting an app-based pandemic simulation, part of Operation Outbreak, a platform of lessons on infectious diseases and the public health response to their spread. After lear...

23May

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The local impact of foreign censorship laws

The local impact of foreign censorship lawsIt can be tempting to look at censorship in other countries and conclude that it’s troubling, but far away, and we should save our worrying for what happens here. Most people are, for good reason, much more concerned about the impact of the laws in the country in which they live. But this attitude can fail to account for how censorship functions, especially in an era in which the internet, digital surveillance, frequent international travel, and global industries have made some foreign laws less constrained by borders and more difficult to combat. For the last several years, FIRE has been covering the complex relationship between American higher education and global censorship, including the difficulties of protecting speech on satellite campuses ...