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Photographer: Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg What does a college do when students trash a 9/11 memorial? That was the question facing Occidental College in Los Angeles after vandals destroyed a display of nearly 3,000 American flags placed by Conservative and Republican club members on the Quad. Privacy regulations demand that the college can’t publicize [...] from Forbes Education

Tonight at 7 P.M., the college football players at Ohio State University and Clemson University will compete in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ. The winner of this football game will receive an automatic bid to the college football national championship game in Tampa, FL. Unfortunately, however, for college athletes [...] from Forbes Education

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When Louisiana State University ("LSU") and the University of Louisville kick off in this morning's 11:00 A.M. Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, the LSU Tigerswill be without their star running back, Leonard Fournette. The prospective first-round NFL draft pick is sitting out today's game to prepare for his career as [...] from Forbes Education

Living In America 101: When Refugees Arrive, What Do They Need To Learn? How do you read a bank statement? Or a map? A program in Chicago is working to connect refugees with people who can teach them. Read more on NPR

http://ift.tt/2iQ6KlW Worried about the state of education in America? Then consider this month’s winners of the 2016 Siemens Competition, which honors math, science and technology projects from high school students around the country. These are some smart kids with plans to revolutionize fields such as medicine. Identical twin sisters from Texas [...] from Forbes Education

Your view of the college admission process depends mostly on where you're standing. from Forbes Education

It’s that time of year again. We look back at our failures and max-out what little credit is left after a season of overspending on gifts. Go ahead: join that gym, start practicing yoga, buy local and organic. Now’s the time to spend on self-improvement. Personally, I think New Year’s resolutions [...] from Forbes Education

When Stanford University and the University of North Carolina kick off in this afternoon's Hyundai Sun Bowl, the Stanford Cardinal will be without their star running back, Christian McCaffrey. The NFL hopeful is choosing to sit out today's game to prepare for his NFL career. But Stanford University fans should not [...] from Forbes Education

From 'No Way,' To Global Success: The Inspired Journey Of GM's Design Chief A lover of cars since he was a little tyke who later trained as a sculptor, Ed Welburn has shaped the physical world we live in as the longtime head of design for General Motors. Read more on NPR

Tonight, Jim Harbaugh will be coaching the University of Michigan in the Capital One Orange Bowl. However, earlier this month, rumors circulated that the Wolverines popular coach might attempt tojump shipafter the season to coach the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. Thus far, anyrumors about Coach Harbaugh's purported departure from Ann [...] from Forbes Education

Milo Yiannopoulos (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The number of serious attempts to keep speakers off college campuses because of their politics doubled this year, according to the year-end report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. One quarter of the disinvitations were aimed at Milo Yiannopoulos, a provocative British [...] from Forbes Education

Legal service providers once operated at the legal vertical's margins, receiving scraps from law firms' table. No more. Axiom, United Lex, and other tech and process savvy, well capitalized providers with global footprints and agile workforces are mainstream now. Here are some reasons why. from Forbes Education

‘A Bullet Could Hit Me and My Kids Anytime’ For thousands of children in Chicago, walking to school can be treacherous. One father, Victor Bloomingberg, explains why. December 30, 2016 at 06:54AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2ioLa7E

Teachers Are Stressed, And That Should Stress Us All When educators are buried under problems beyond their control — here's a solution: Get mindful. Read more on NPR

Taiwan is in the spotlight again over mimicking the Nazis. A group of high school students staged a mock Nazi rally this month, apparently part of an approved project to reenact phases of history. Taiwan used to have a Nazi concentration camp-themed restaurant. Every year or two someone on the [...] from Forbes Education

Can you begin a career in analytics without spending a fortune? Yes, you can. from Forbes Education

What The People Who Read Your College Application Really Think The college application process can be confusing and frustrating for prospective students. Here's a look at what happens behind the curtain. December 29, 2016 at 05:42PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2iKbzxh

Personal finance experts have released their analysis of which colleges represent the best value for students in 2017. from Forbes Education

Employers would do themselves, new graduates and their country a favor by revisiting what it is they’re actually looking for when they add an experience requirement to what could or should be entry-level positions. from Forbes Education

What The People Who Read Your College Application Really Think The college application process can be confusing and frustrating for prospective students. Here's a look at what happens behind the curtain. Read more on NPR

China bought off Sao Tome and Principe, last week to end the African country’s 19-year alliance with Taiwan, according to the government here. Beijing is negotiating now with the Vatican, Taiwan’s most influential of a remaining 21 diplomatic friends who speak for it in the United Nations where it hasn’t [...] from Forbes Education

Does Handing Out Sanitary Pads Really Get Girls To Stay In School? A new study tries to find out what happens when girls in the developing world are on their period. And it's complicated. Read more on NPR

For many baseball executives, Kyle Hendricks's dominant 2016 season, in which he won 16 games for the Chicago Cubs and finished third in the N.L. Cy Young race, came out of nowhere. Before posting a 2.13 E.R.A. last season, the 27-year old hurler, nicknamed the "The Professor," was not seen [...] from Forbes Education

Thinking about how you look at the current zeitgeist may improve your attitude in the new year. from Forbes Education

Applying to highly competitive colleges just to see if you can get in doesn't make sense. If you've done your research, you're better off going all in with your final list. from Forbes Education

Outsourced: In A Twist, Some San Francisco Tech Jobs Are Moving To India Companies in San Francisco pay six-figure salaries to entry-level tech workers. But a public university there is laying off some of its own IT staff and sending the jobs to a contractor in India. Read more on NPR

This year was another interesting year in sports law, highlighted by the Supreme Court's rejection of certiorari in O'Bannon v. NCAA --marking an end to six years of litigation over whether the NCAA can prevent colleges from sharing licensing revenues with their athletes. 2017 figures to be just as exciting year, [...] from Forbes Education

We Learned A Lot In 2016 About How Preschool Can Help Kids Several new studies pointed to lasting gains for students. But there's a catch: Over and over, the research showed the importance of providing high-quality preschool. Read more on NPR

By David Slocum The past year has yielded another outstanding and helpful store of books for creative business leaders. Here are the Creative Leadership Book of the Year and the rest of the 2016 Top 10. Also below are 16further titles published this year that will valuably reward leaders’ time and [...] from Forbes Education

Don't worry aboutfake news. The whole scare is, itself, fake news. Don’t believe a word of it. Could it be that the news media is still trying to distract us from their own poor performance? After all, if inaccuracy makes a thing “fake,” then all the pundits’ and pollsters’ pre-election day [...] from Forbes Education

This week, 46 college football teams will playin bowl games-- contests that are built more on commercialism than tradition. However, in the early days of college football, bowl week was relatively non-existent. Instead, elite college football players turned professional as soon as the college regular season ended. The most recognized [...] from Forbes Education

Screen Time Reality Check — For Kids And Parents As technology is increasingly woven into family life, parents struggle to navigate limits without personal experience from their own childhoods to fall back on. Read more on NPR

Native-American Education: What Will It Take To Fix The "Epitome Of Broken"? The Bureau of Indian Education is 150 years old and is finally undergoing a critical reorganization facilitated by the Obama administration and the Bureau itself. But will it be enough? Read more on NPR

The ABA has laid down some cool tracks. How come we've never heard them? Here's a sampling of their Greatest Hits. Time for the ABA and the legal profession to turn up the volume on some of the important pro bono work they are doing at a time when it is desperately needed. from Forbes Education

You've Got Mail: Book Boxes Offer Novels And Novelty Items It's OK if you haven't heard of book box subscriptions. These relatively new services, available in all kinds of genres, deliver curated selections of books and extras to subscribers every month. Read more on NPR

It's a tough time for the news business, from crumbling business models to self-inflicted wounds from the last presidential campaign. If you are looking for an important cause for your charitable giving, look no further than some dynamic efforts in non-profit, independent journalism. from Forbes Education

Bad facts make bad law. And, unfortunately, a bad set facts -- coupled with an overzealous federal judge -- has set back the college athletes' rights movement, at least for the time being. On December 8, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held inBerger v. National Collegiate [...] from Forbes Education

In my humble estimation, The Wall Street Journal does the best reporting on higher education in America of any news organization, with seasoned pros like Josh Mitchel, Douglas Belkin, and Andrea Fuller producing some first rate stories. In the December 22 issue, Belkin, with help from Fuller, talk about how [...] from Forbes Education

When A School's Online Eavesdropping Can Prevent A Suicide Administrators now have the power to track students' browsing on school-issued laptops, even at home. That can help spot a student in distress. But the implications are complicated. Read more on NPR

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England's Cap On College Tuition Rises To Nearly $11,400, Riling Critics From Cambridge and Oxford to Lancashire and Surrey, tuition fees at all English universities are capped — and the new rate hike moves from £9,000 to £9,250 (roughly $11,070 to $11,378). Read more on NPR

A recent White House report examines the role automation will play in the labor market of tomorrow. Whilst doomsday projections thrive, are politicians really equipped to cope with an automated world? from Forbes Education

For college football fans who are surprised to find Christian McCaffrey and Leonard Fournettesitting out of their schools'bowl games, the writing has been on the wall since 2014. You just missed it. The argument for elite college football players to endtheir collegiate careers early dates back to October 2014 when the [...] from Forbes Education

While many universities are all too willing to restrict the right of their students and faculty to say what they want, too often university presidents wish to speak in a manner that implies their institutions are endorsing some policy idea or position. Universities almost never should take an institutional position [...] from Forbes Education

Most “personalized learning” in classrooms today completely misses the mark. The edtech market is crowded with companies who claim to be offering personalized learning products, but several of these companies use an incomplete definition of personalized learning. from Forbes Education

This woman turned her passion for space into helping astronauts conduct research on the International Space Station. from Forbes Education

The Classroom Where Fake News Fails Fake news is everywhere, and many Americans in this digital age struggle to sort fact from fiction. The fix: Teach them when they're young. Read more on NPR

The U.S. has a history of using education to help its workforce adapt to new jobs that we cannot yet imagine. from Forbes Education

A photograph of Hillary Clinton is carried through the audience during a watch party on the campus of Wellesley College on election night. Clinton graduated from Wellesley in 1969. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Two Babson College students propped up a Trump 2016 flag in the back of a Chevy Silverado pick-up truck [...] from Forbes Education

How to Get Into a Top College? Be a Good Kid One man’s mission to make college admissions sane (and fair) again December 21, 2016 at 04:29PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2h9NrC9

Many Schools Train Staff To Use Active Responses To Gunmen With a school shooting about once every week in America, a greater number of school districts and colleges are training staff to use more active responses to gunmen, including fighting back. Read more on NPR

Why Aren't There More Women In Tech? A Tour Of Silicon Valley's Leaky Pipeline We start at an after-school program for middle-schoolers and end at tech companies that are supposed to be front-runners on diversity. Where do girls and women drop out from the tech talent pipeline? Read more on NPR

America’s richest colleges are sitting on a fortune in endowments, and need to make sure they are spending it to help those who stand to benefit the most. from Forbes Education

The National Student Clearinghouse has released data showing that for the fifth consecutive year, total American college and university enrollments declined from the previous year. While it used to be customary to talk about the “over 20 million college students,” that number is now down to 19 million. This is [...] from Forbes Education

Five items to put on your speaker success to-do list. from Forbes Education

Discussion about the barriers for women in the workplace is nothing new, yet companies are still struggling to attract and promote female talent. Based on decades of research, IESE prof Nuria Chinchilla and Esther Jimenez, manager of IESE´s Women in Leadership center, have identified several key actions that companies can [...] from Forbes Education

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Students: Colleges Are Tracking You Online. It Can Help You Graduate Some campuses are testing new tools that give professors access to real-time data on student engagement and performance. Read more on NPR

Analytics is not optional anymore. If you are not acing it, here is your 2017 analytics plan. from Forbes Education

Grading The World's Textbooks: Making Progress But Needs Improvement A UNESCO survey shows that school books often minimize, brush aside or misrepresent important issues, from gender equality to environmental protection. Read more on NPR

College students are on a continuous hunt for the next internship, but finding the right one is no easy feat. Today’s students are on a perpetual hunt for name brand companies with which to add much needed substance to their CVs. But at age 20, it simply isn’t always possible [...] from Forbes Education

Grading The World's Textbooks: Making Progress But Needs Improvement A UNESCO survey shows that school books often minimize, brush aside or misrepresent important issues, from gender equality to environmental protection. Read more on NPR

(Photo courtesy of Pexels) Tanya Tarr teaches negotiating differently...and better. If negotiations remind you of confronting an angry Alec Baldwin in the film Glengarry Glen Ross ("Put Down that Coffee Down"), Tarr is here to help. She is a collaborative negotiation coach, and on this week’s podcast of Hiding in the Bathroom [...] from Forbes Education

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Americans are angry about our colleges and universities. The four biggest sins are that college is too costly, involves too little learning, is increasingly intolerant or contemptuous of free expression and diversity of opinion, and graduates students who are underemployed. from Forbes Education

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It's not holidays; it's not technology. It's evolution. from Forbes Education

Harvard Survey Highlights Attitudes About Campus Sexual Assault A new national survey highlights some attitudes and expectations that may underlie many campus sexual assaults. Researchers at Harvard University say many students are acting on deeply ingrained beliefs, such as the idea that women usually need a little convincing to have sex. Read more on NPR

Join us for a Twitter chat to talk about what you learned in the workplace in 2016. from Forbes Education