Student Facing Expulsion Over Renting Dorm Room on Airbnb
A sophomore at Emerson College could be facing disciplinary action as a result of listing his dorm room for rent on Airbnb. According to Steve Annear for The Boston Globe, 19-year-old Emerson College student Jack Worth posted an ad on Airbnb offering tourists “a private, single-bedroom unit with sweeping views of Boston Common, right in the heart of downtown.” The […]
Julia Steiny: Why the Every Student Succeeds Act Will Never Work
By Julia Steiny Given the battlefield that is our current Congress, congratulations to them are in order for agreeing on anything. Together, miraculously, they revamped the old 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). NCLB was loathed from the get-go. It was a set-up for failure, since it was and is still statistically impossible to […]
A cure for rosacea? Student nurse finds MIRACLE cream after developing skin condition
ROSACEA is a poorly understood long-term skin condition, but those who suffer with it will tell you the pain runs more than skin deep. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Senate Approves Every Student Succeeds Act, Obama to Sign
In a bipartisan 85-12 vote today, the United States Senate has approved the Every Student Succeeds Act — the replacement for No Child Left Behind, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — in the ESEA’s first overhaul in over a decade. The Senate’s approval comes after the House of Representatives voted 359-64 […]
Electronic Frontier Foundation Says Google Uses Student Data
Digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking a federal investigation after accusing Google of invading student privacy through laptops powered by the company’s Chrome operating system. In a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission, the EFF argues that Google had the Chromebooks rigged in order to allow the collection of information pertaining to student […]
House Passes Every Student Succeeds Act to Overhaul NCLB
The US House of Representatives has approved a bill called the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that will revise the controversial No Child Left Behind law and end the era in which the federal government patrolled public school achievement. ESSA will restore control to the individual states and local districts, writes Emmarie Huetteman and Mokoto Rich of The New […]
‘White Student Union’ Facebook Pages Proliferate
Over 30 “White Student Union” groups have recently been created on Facebook, each of which have affiliated themselves with a different university across the United States. While national attention was given to the “Illini White Student Union” Facebook page that had been created on November 18 in response to a “Black Student Solidarity Rally” at the University of […]
Yale Responds to Student Demands Over Racism, Inequality
Yale President Peter Salovey declared this week that there is still much work to do regarding students’ concern over rising racial tensions on the university’s campus. Salovey proposed “a structure to build a more inclusive Yale” by adding four new faculty members to address underrepresented cultures, supplying multi-cultural training for employees, expanding cultural center resources, […]
White House’s ‘Every Student, Every Day’ Tackles Chronic Absenteeism
The Obama administration has announced a new campaign focused on addressing the problem of chronic absenteeism in the nation’s schools. Research has shown that students who are absent over 10% of the year, or about 18 days in most school districts, are set up to struggle academically and many drop out completely. Chronic absenteeism is […]