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Older adults are at increased risk of dehydration because as they age, their body's fluid reserve becomes smaller, their ability to conserve water is reduced and their thirst sense becomes less acute. Here is good advice for them and anyone who cares for them. from Forbes Education

India consistently has one of the world's lowest labor participation rates for women. Tired of being disappointed, one woman decided to take matters into her own hands and create an MBA program solely for female students. from Forbes Education

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Hey America, We're Listening What do the media get wrong about...you? Read more on NPR

The market for internships is becoming almost as competitive as the market for graduate jobs, but a new study suggests becoming an intern could leave you worse off than your peers. from Forbes Education

Why We Shouldn’t Think About College as a Business The shift from viewing college as a public good to seeing it as a private benefit has led to higher education becoming more specialized, which a new theory says may lead to cognitive decline over time. July 31, 2017 at 09:42AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2vbnnya

The Field Where Men Still Call The Shots Research shows that the lack of female-led athletic teams has consequences for both boys and girls. July 30, 2017 at 03:06AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2vZyNm6

You Can Get Fired For Saying That? When reporter Andrew Goldman went to Louisiana State University to investigate the firing of a female academic for sexual harassment, he found that a chill wind blows through free speech on campus these days — and that sexual harassment might have nothing to do with sex. July 28, 2017 at 01:57PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2u5lqi7

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Deciding to apply to highly competitive colleges can't be a last-minute decision. It takes planning that starts at the end of 8th grade to ensure students are in a position to far exceed "minimum" requirements for college admission. I use the University of Illinois's list as an example. from Forbes Education

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Capital investment in education technology is now measured in the billions, and VC's and nonprofits are lining up to be a part of the next big thing. But the price of success is always paid in full and always in advance. from Forbes Education

Tens Of Thousands More Women And Minorities Are Taking Computer Science The Advanced Placement program has scored a win for diversity with the help of Silicon Valley. Read more on NPR

New Florida Law Lets Residents Challenge School Textbooks The new bill was pushed by a conservative group critical of the way evolution, climate change and government were being taught in Florida schools. Read more on NPR

Nationwide, Teachers Supplement School Supplies With Their Salaries NPR's Noel King interviews Teresa Danks, a third-grade teacher who begged for school supply money on the side of the road to bring attention to the lack of resources facing educators. Read more on NPR

For Malala, Now 20, Birthdays Are Best Spent With Girls Who Dream Big The world's youngest Nobel laureate spent her 20th birthday this month with displaced Yazidi girls in northern Iraq. She spends each birthday with girls who are struggling to get an education. Read more on NPR

Read to your kids and they’ll become adults who like to read. That’s common knowledge. It’s not so obvious how you cultivate appreciation for math and science. from Forbes Education

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School Segregation Didn't Go Away. It Just Evolved. How parents are gerrymandering school borders and fencing out poor kids. July 28, 2017 at 09:35AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2w6doXQ

In the world of edtech, “free” isn’t only a danger to the users—it’s quickly becoming more and more of a danger to the makers of edtech, as well. The concept of free doesn’t always pay—especially for those entrepreneurs looking to pay back hungry investors. from Forbes Education

The place that served as the national launching pad for O.J. Simpson has no plans to welcome him back after he gets out of jail, but his football legacy remains on display at USC. from Forbes Education

The Ongoing Battle Between Science Teachers And Fake News In a world of fake news and junk science, how do science teachers help their students distinguish fact from fiction? Read more on NPR

Pittsburgh Summer Camp Introduces Refugees To U.S. Culture Many refugee students are new to American customs and pastimes - including summer camp. Now, a non-profit in Pittsburgh is offering them free summer camp as an introduction to American culture. Read more on NPR

How To Keep Friends And Influence Yourself What do you believe strongly? What, if anything, could change your mind about it? Read more on NPR

Who's Left To Defend Tommy Curry? A black philosopher at Texas A&M thought forcing a public discussion about race and violence was his job. Turns out people didn’t want to hear it. July 27, 2017 at 11:05AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2w3CXca

From Skyhook To STEM: Kareem Abdul Jabbar Brings The Science The NBA's all-time leading scorer talks about the importance of STEM and his education foundation, and its support for a science camp for public school children in Los Angeles. Read more on NPR

Harvard Magazine Personal Ads Without "Rich" or "Thin" The trimmest widow of all seeks a man who's allowed to use the business-class lav. July 26, 2017 at 06:36PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2uYQTae

This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends Not with a pop, but a hiss. July 26, 2017 at 02:40PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2uXuA4I

This week, news broke that global sperm counts may be plunging, and that one U.S. state has reportedly begun sterilizing inmates in exchange for shorter sentences. from Forbes Education

Partnering with the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger and supported by law firms in the US, Canada and the UK, the Accord Project has launched an initiative to shake up the legal contracting world in what is described as an “industry first” using blockchain, distributed ledgers and smart contracts. from Forbes Education

Over the last six weeks, we’ve been flooded with Twitter and Instagram submissions to our #MyTopCollege competition. from Forbes Education

There’s a digital arms race underway -- and most people don’t even know it’s happening. The stats are shocking. from Forbes Education

Evidence on risks of football in high school and college students is scarce. But do we need to wait for it? from Forbes Education

College costs extend beyond the cost of attendance. They include debt repayment. Consider using the Dept. of Education's College Scorecard to look at debt-to-earnings ratios as you plan for college. from Forbes Education

Teachers With Student Debt: These Are Their Stories If you're a teacher, you have one of the lowest-paid professional jobs in the U.S. Most require a four-year degree, which can require tens of thousands of dollars in loans that some struggle to repay. Read more on NPR

'LA Times' Investigates The Double Life Of A Med School Dean Marc Duvoisin of the Los Angeles Times talks with Steve Inskeep about an investigation into a former medical school dean at the University of Southern California who led a drug-fueled double life. Read more on NPR

College Tuition Grows At Slowest Pace In Decades Here's welcome news to anyone planning to attend college soon — or their parents: tuition is growing at the slowest pace in decades. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to Josh Mitchell of the Wall Street Journal has been reporting on this trend. Read more on NPR

Restorative Justice, An Alternative To The Process Campuses Use For Sexual Assault Cases Interest is growing in a new approach to dealing with campus sexual assault. Called restorative justice, the process looks less like a trial and more like a therapeutic intervention. Read more on NPR

Meet The 5 New Inductees Of The National Teachers Hall Of Fame Five teachers were inducted into the National Teacher Hall of Fame this year and NPR's Claudio Sanchez sat down with them to get their take on what it means to be a teacher. Read more on NPR

If you don’t have the time, patience and money necessary to complete a four-year bachelor degree, you can still find plenty of jobs with lucrative salaries and less demanding requirements. from Forbes Education

Sixty-five percent of children starting school today will need skills for jobs that don’t even exist yet. Take a look at how one innovative New York School is preparing its students for the Jobs of today, and tommorow. from Forbes Education

The promotion process takes time, potentially connections, hard work, and an increased skill set. Learn 8 tangible strategies to help you land a promotion within your current organization. from Forbes Education

Generation Z is disrupting the way learning happens in higher education. And they're looking for more than just a fully digitalized experience. They expect social learning experiences, hands-on environments, and an ability to drive their own curriculum to reach their career goals earlier on. from Forbes Education

The Controversy Over Comprehensive Sex Ed How well did your sex education serve you? Read more on NPR

The growing access to internet through affordable devices has the potential to help the the emerging markets have access to cheaper, faster and more transparent payment methods. Is blockchain the answer? from Forbes Education

As an aspiring entrepreneur without the opportunity to attend business school, can you learn to build and run a company, using case method, without a supporting educational institution? from Forbes Education

New Yorker Redesigns Her Life To Help Kids In Ghana Pat Wilkins had a "high maintenance life" with expensive vacations and a BMW. Then she decided to diverge from that path. Read more on NPR

But to all other colleges and universities—which constitute the vast majority of new master’s degree programs—we say this: while you might think you’ve checked the growth strategy box by launching one or more online master’s degree programs with an OPM partner, that market has already shifted. from Forbes Education

Law needs more STEM majors. That's because hard sciences are a key part of legal delivery. There's great opportunity for techs in the legal industry, but this is not being communicated. Here are some suggestions for legal industry/law schools to attract science types. from Forbes Education

Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet, co-founder of the EdTechXEurope education innovation summit series, explains how media entertainment industry evolution is helpful in understanding what’s coming next in the education sector, and how fast. from Forbes Education

Are Helicopter Parents Ruining Summer Camp? In a wired world, summer camp is one of the last phone-free zones. But campers, staff and especially parents don't always appreciate the message. Read more on NPR

By making space and time available and offering challenging conversation and quiet reflection, the Institute hopes those who govern are reminded of their vocation to public service, grow in moral sensitivity and resilience, and return again and again to better define the good they are trying to do. from Forbes Education

What Really Happened At That Robotics Competition You've Heard So Much About The controversy surrounding a highly-anticipated robotics competition for teens from around the globe overshadowed an otherwise upbeat event focused on kids, robots and changing the world. Read more on NPR

Former Child Bride Is Pedaling Her Way To A Brighter Future After Jenipher Sanni was married at 14, she dropped out of school for a year. Today, she's a a global girl advocate for the U.N. Foundation. Read more on NPR

DeVos Protests In Denver; House To Make Cuts To Education More girls are taking the AP computer science exam, House Republicans rejected school choice expansions in Trump's initial budget request, and the education secretary spoke in Denver amid protests. Read more on NPR

The contribution towards the cost of college made by scholarships and grants is now at its highest level ever recorded in an annual survey. from Forbes Education

As U.S. industry and government continue butting heads over cannabis, some institutions of higher learning are turning to science to elevate the conversation and inform the practice. from Forbes Education

Traditional higher education is still the way to go for many living in developed countries, but are the conventional rites of passage compatible with the new world technologists are creating? White-collar apprenticeships could be the solution. from Forbes Education

No wonder young Americans feel so important, when half of them finish high school as A students It's every parent's dream come true — but grade inflation is problematic for schools and students alike. July 20, 2017 at 05:37PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2uNBYjx

Dunkirk is said to have strengthened the British resolve to fight against Nazi Germany in the face of overwhelming odds. But it did so only after prime minister Winston Churchill reframed the event for the public. from Forbes Education

Skills and knowledge have an increasingly short shelf-life, but whilst the tools exist to enable employees to learn and develop themselves, are their employers giving them sufficient time to learn on the job? from Forbes Education

Applying to colleges as a student-athlete can be very complicated. Consider some important issues before deciding which division makes the most sense to play it, what your goals in college and post-college are and where to go to understand the guidelines that ensure you're treated fairly. from Forbes Education

What’s clear is that educators are no longer standing on the sidelines content with a college experience that has failed too many students for too long. Here are the 3 approaches charter schools are taking to reinvent the college experience. from Forbes Education

Betsy DeVos' Latest Speech Draws Protests, Even Before She Speaks DeVos has longstanding ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which backs school choice policies coast to coast. Read more on NPR

Morning News Brief: Trump Blasts Sessions, DeVos Talks To Conservative Activists In a new interview, President Trump criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Also, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faces protesters in Colorado, and ICE agents say their work has recently changed. Read more on NPR

Rob Wiesenthal, BLADE CEO and former Sony Americas CFO / Chief Strategy Officer, shares how a stint at a large corporation can be a launch pad for a fulfilling career. from Forbes Education

The case study method of training, used with particular effect in business management education, helps to stimulate and prompt students to take decisions. from Forbes Education

The YouTube Star Who's Teaching Kids How To Bake Celebrity chef Rosanna Pansino hosts the YouTube show Nerdy Nummies, which has more than 8 million subscribers. Among her fans are thousands of children who want to learn how to bake. Read more on NPR

When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code For wearing their hair in braids, two teenagers were threatened with suspension at their charter school. Similar incidents show that strict dress codes can punish students for their racial identity. July 18, 2017 at 06:30PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2u654HS

Private Student Loans: The Rise And Fall (And Rise Again?) They're less common than they were a decade ago, but still the most expensive and riskiest way to pay for college. Read more on NPR

Youth From Every Quarter A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege. July 18, 2017 at 11:18AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2txRVW0