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  • Students Reject Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy Mentality

    Students Reject Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy Mentality0

    Many have fallen prey to the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality in recent years. After all, one must never hurt the feelings of precious little flowers who might not be as talented as their peers! One of the latest victims bitten by this bug is the revered Cambridge University in Great Britain. According to The Telegraph, Cambridge’s tradition

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  • Students Increasingly Are Pursuing Degrees with Better Job Prospects, Data Show

    Students Increasingly Are Pursuing Degrees with Better Job Prospects, Data Show0

    When it comes to employment data, most economists and commentators today mainly concentrate on the unemployment rate. Many seem to ignore another important measure: the underemployment rate. The Federal Reserve of New York defines the underemployment rate as “the share of graduates working in jobs that typically do not require a college degree.” Underemployment and

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  • Students in Turkey Value Free Speech Way More than American Students

    Students in Turkey Value Free Speech Way More than American Students0

    Several weeks ago, many in the U.S. were rather disturbed when protestors at UC Berkeley were able to shut out controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus. As CNN reported: “More than 1,500 protesters had gathered at Sproul Plaza, chanting and holding signs that read: ‘No safe space for racists’ and ‘This is war.’

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  • Students Hold ‘Poop-In’ in Push for More Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

    Students Hold ‘Poop-In’ in Push for More Gender-Neutral Bathrooms0

    Via Campus Reform: Students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are staging a week-long “shit-in,” occupying restrooms in an administration building to demand more gender-neutral facilities. The “Shit-In at Whitmore” demonstration began Monday morning at the Whitmore Administration building (which the activists have nicknamed “Queermore”), and organizers intend to have students continue occupying stalls in the

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  • Students Don’t Need a “Passion,” They Need Persistence

    Students Don’t Need a “Passion,” They Need Persistence0

    Millennials are right to be angry about their schooling. Even the perpetrators see some of the damage they’re doing. “Escalating achievement pressure is not healthy for our youth,” says Kedra Ishop, an associate vice president for enrollment at the University of Michigan. “Young people are suffering from higher rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse

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  • Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade

    Students Can Now Retake Their Test if They Don’t Like Their Grade0

    • December 4, 2017

    We’ve all seen how participation trophies have overtaken the world of kid sports. No longer is there one prize; instead, there are multiple awards for everything from first to tenth place. The backlash against this phenomenon is growing, however, and participation trophies are increasingly the butt of many jokes as Americans realize that awarding every

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