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Harvard withdraws fellowship invitation to Chelsea Manning
The Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School announced Wednesday that Manning would be one of its visiting fellows, but less than two days later, the school's dean withdrew the invitation.
At St. Cloud State University, Harry Potter and the philosopher's class
St. Cloud State University professor Carolyn Hartz is applying Aristotle's work on friendship to character relationships in J.K. Rowling's books about the boy wizard. The class discusses ethics, logic, love, the human soul and nature while examining the stories.
In the age of screen time, is paper dead?
What does the push for digital classrooms mean for that oldest and simplest of touch screens: a plain old sheet of paper?
Teaching Sept. 11 to students who were born after the attacks
Years after Sept. 11, some schools are grappling with how to teach the terrorist attacks and their aftermath to a new generation of students.
National Press Club: Former school lunch lady now heads NEA
Lily Eskelsen Garcia was a school lunch lady before being encouraged to go to college to become a teacher. She was later named Utah's Teacher of the Year, and now is president of the National Education Association.
DeVos planning to scrap Obama rules on campus sexual assault
The education secretary says rules established in 2011 to guide schools as they investigate and resolve complaints of assault have failed to protect students and done a "disservice to everyone involved."
After protest, Rocori school district reverses ban on flag display
School officials announced the ban after some students flew the Confederate flag in their cars last year. But students objected to the new policy, saying it prevented them from displaying the American flag.
In the weeks before freshman year, money worries aplenty
Students often struggle over the summer to make their bills balance out, and it's one of the main reasons that nearly a third of low-income students with college going plans don't show up in the fall.
For the second year in a row, Minnesota's graduating class led the 17 states where all high school seniors took the test. They posted an average composite score of 21.5, compared with 21.1 for 2016.