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Bloomberg boosts early childhood education in Birmingham

Early childhood education brightens 2.5k lives

Hristina Yordanova
September 30, 2019

Early childhood education will be provided to children in Birmingham under the auspices of Bloomberg Philanthropies. Birmingham has been chosen...

United States Universities

Union workers strike averted; Oregon officials settle

Ken Vincent Rosales
September 29, 2019

The scheduled walkout off around 5000 union workers from different public universities in Oregon will not push through after the...

Technology United States

Innovations in technology: A new K-12 evaluation system

Ken Vincent Rosales
September 28, 2019

Innovations in technology are providing solutions that make assessments more engaging, accessible, timely, and reliable. Breakthrough innovations in technology We...

Yale Prison Education Initiative introduces credit based liberal arts course

United States Universities

Yale Prison Education Initiative: Credit based liberal arts course

Mihir Sharma
September 28, 2019

Yale University, since 2018, has been running the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI), in which they aim to educate the...

Sexual assault controversy: Rice University apologizes

Law and Courts United States

Sexual assault controversy: Apology issued

Kelvin Maina
September 28, 2019

The sexual assault controversy resulted in the university apologizing to the female student for the way they handled the case....

Graduate students paid jobs, non unionizing.

Students United States

Graduate students do not get union rights with paid jobs

Oluchi Maxwell
September 28, 2019

Graduate students efforts at being involved in paid jobs within universities does not mean getting full employee rights. Most graduate...

Another college admission scams case comes up, 4 years in federal prison

Law and Courts United States

College admissions scam: 4 months jail time

Mihir Sharma
September 28, 2019

College admissions scandal has been in the American news for some time, dragging the likes of Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin,...

Nonprofits United States

Micro-scholarships launched at Wayne State University

Kelvin Maina
September 28, 2019

Wayne State University will become the first university to launch a micro-scholarship partnership with RaiseMe, an organization that has raised...

United States Universities

$156 million donations: 100th anniversary of John Brown U

Kelvin Maina
September 27, 2019

$156 million raised by a running campaign will be used to establish a computer science program at John Brown University,...