NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New Jersey State Board of Education doubled down this week on its sex education guidelines, refusing to reconsider the controversial curriculum despite outrage from parents and concerns about the possible negative impacts. The guidelines, which were approved by the board roughly […]
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Students pitch promising business ideas to investors at VCU Demo Day – VCU News
By James Shea Virginia Commonwealth University student Yosef Mirakov Cohen, a senior marketing major in the School of Business, is passionate about saving animals and protecting the environment. He founded a company, C’est Lä Vé, which makes vegan snack boxes in sustainable packaging. Last week, he pitched his idea […]
Area college students pitch innovative business ideas for funding
JEFFERSON CITY — A business pitch to preserve cremated remains as ceramic art won a Fulton college student enough money to cover startup costs. Paige Brennecke, a freshman at Westminster College and William Woods University, pitched her business idea for Cremation Creations and won the Callaway Chamber of Commerce’s first […]
Stark Minority Business teaches entrepreneurship to Crenshaw students
CANTON – A dozen Crenshaw Middle School eighth grade students are getting lessons in entrepreneurship. The students are participating in the Youth Entrepreneur Program developed by the Stark County Minority Business Association. More:Three community leaders talk about keeping college graduates in Stark County More:Stark County Minority Business Association mentoring program graduates […]
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, Closing Off a Path to Teaching for College Students | News
The Harvard Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, which provided College students with teaching credentials prior to graduation, was recently ended as part of an effort to direct students interested in teaching to the Graduate School of Education’s new Teaching and Teacher Leadership master’s program. UTEP is the second undergraduate education program […]
‘My heart dropped’: Students, community still reeling from Lincoln College closure news | Local Education
LINCOLN — Lincoln College senior Zak Luken described campus as a “ghost town” Thursday morning as students and employees processed the hours-old announcement of plans to close the 157-year-old institution in May. The shock was especially acute because of the major changes happening at Lincoln Christian University just across town, […]
How P&G Ventures is sourcing business ideas from female STEM students
P&G Ventures is betting the next billion-dollar business idea will come from a female college student. P&G Ventures is a startup accelerator within P&G that has helped develop beauty device brands like Opte, as well as menopause brand Kindra. As the consumer-packaged goods industry reaches new heights almost every day, […]
Students Return to Minneapolis Schools After Historic Three-Week Strike | Education News
Students are back in school across Minneapolis on Tuesday after teachers union leaders and city officials reached a deal to end a three-week strike over low pay, lack of diversity among teachers, large class sizes and student mental health challenges. The labor dispute was the city’s first in half a […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sued by LGBTQ students, parents over new law
A group of over a dozen students, parents, educators and advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s Board of Education, alleging that newly enacted state legislation would “stigmatize, silence, and erase LGBTQ people in Florida’s public schools.” The Parental Rights in Education bill, […]
Cardona Urges Schools to Consider Students With Disabilities When Lifting COVID-19 Mandates | Education News
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona reminded states and local school districts that they must ensure students with disabilities who are at higher risk of severe COVID-19 infections can continue to safely attend school in person – even as schools drop masking and testing mandates in the wake of the Centers for […]