Category: Education
How different types of college internships affect job offers and salaries
Internships provide college students with valuable real-world work experience and can lead to increased job-offer rates and higher starting salaries, according to results of a recent survey conducted by the National […]
Former ‘Teacher of the Year’ facing life in prison for soliciting minor online
A former teacher from Westminster West Middle School in Carroll County, Maryland, has been in custody since his September 13 arrest and being charged with four counts of solicitation of […]
How college grads view their career readiness skills versus how employers view them
How prepared are new college graduates to make a successful transition into the workplace? Students entering the job market and their potential employers have very different perceptions about the “career […]
Foiled kidnapping: Good Samaritan saves 12-year-old girl from abduction
Claudia Hernandez Diaz, 34, was arrested in Santa Ana, California, on the morning of February 21 after a Good Samaritan successfully stopped Diaz from kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who was […]
Fla. teen arrested 2 days after Parkland shooting for threatening to shoot up Broward Co. schools
Only two days after the school shooting in Parkland where 17 died and 14 more suffered serious injuries, a teenager from Lauderhill, Florida, posted a message on social media, “threatening […]
Paid college internships on the rise
On February 15, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released the results from their Class of 2017 Student Survey which show that 61 percent of graduating seniors took part […]
School shooter had AR-15, smoke bombs, multiple magazines and was wearing a gas mask
(Updated) On February 14 at approximately 2:40 p.m., Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old disgruntled ex-student with a troubled past, walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He was […]
Dad who charged Larry Nassar in court donating his $31K GoFundMe fund to charity
Randy Margraves, the distraught father who charged at Larry Nassar in court for sexually abusing his three daughters, was the recipient of more than $30,000 in donations he received after […]
New Study: Oil used in McDonald’s french fries may hold the key to curing baldness
Stem cell research scientists at Yokohama National University in Japan released a new study claiming that they may have found a baldness cure using an ingredient commonly used in McDonald’s […]
GoFundMe nets thousands for dad who charged convicted child sex abuser Larry Nassar in court
In a Michigan courtroom on Friday, after self-proclaimed distraught dad Randall Margraves was denied by the presiding judge in the case against USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to have five […]
