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Some UVA trustees seek information about political views of student and faculty

[ad_1] Some new trustees at the University of Virginia are pushing for the university to collect information about the political views of the faculty and students, The Daily Progress reported. At a Board of Visitors meeting Friday, Douglas Wetmore, who was appointed to the board by Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, last year, questioned why …

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How important was your favorite teacher to your success? Researchers have done the math | KQED

[ad_1] The researchers compared what happened to the 3,000 students who had mentors at school with the roughly 5,000 students who said they had no mentors at all. The ones with school mentors did moderately better in high school with slightly higher grades – for example, a  B- versus a C+ –  and failed fewer …

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144 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing

[ad_1] We’ve been publishing our Picture Prompts series four days a week since 2016. Below, we’ve rounded up all the prompts we published for the 2022-23 school year. These short, accessible, image-driven prompts invite students to pen short stories, poems and memoirs; share experiences from their lives; analyze illustrations, graphs and charts; and tell us …

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Scottish university will close New York City campus

[ad_1] Glasgow Caledonian University, which created a New York City campus in 2013 and won the right to award degrees four years later, is selling its campus in New York City, the BBC reported. The university said the campus had “not reached its potential” and that the university would look to exit New York. A university statement said, “Following a …

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20 percent of California community college applicants are scams

[ad_1] About 20 percent of applicants to California community colleges are scams, just designed to obtain student aid without enrolling, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The scams grew during the COVID-19 pandemic. California community colleges are particularly vulnerable to the scams because they are required to accept any student in the state with a high school …

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