Starbucks To Close Over 8,000 Stores For Anti-Bias Training [Beyond Education]

Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores nationwide on Tuesday to conduct anti-bias training, the next of many steps the company is taking to try to restore its tarnished image. After the arrests of two black men last month at one of its stores, the coffee chain's leaders apologized but also put together a bias training curriculum for its 175,000 workers.

U Of Memphis Won't Charge Fallen Soldiers' Families Tuition [Education News]

University of Memphis will become the first higher education institution to accept a scholarship for family of active-duty service members killed or severely injured as full payment. Starting this fall, any student who meets the criteria for the Folds of Honor scholarship will not owe any money to the university.

American Freed From Venezuelan Jail Returns Home To Utah [Beyond Education]

Nearly two years after a trip to meet the woman he loved turned into an imprisonment in a Venezuelan jail, an exhausted but grateful Utah man arrived home with his wife Monday. Josh Holt arrived at the Salt Lake City airport to a tearful, cheering crowd holding signs in his favorite color, green, with messages such as: "We never gave up."

Study Estimates Higher Death Toll In Puerto Rico Post-Maria [Beyond Education]

A new study contends that many more deaths than normal occurred in Puerto Rico in the three months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, mostly because of problems getting medicines or medical care. Researchers surveyed a small sample of neighborhoods and from that estimated that up to 4,600 more deaths than usual occurred, far more than earlier studies have suggested.

Walmart Offers Employees New Perk: Cheap Access To College [Education News]

Walmart is offering its employees a new perk: affordable access to a college degree. America's largest private employer, which in the past has helped its workers get their high school or equivalency degree, hopes the new benefit will help it recruit and retain higher quality entry-level employees in a tight U.S. labor market.

Florida School Shooting Suspect Foretold Intention In Videos [Education News]

In chilling cellphone videos, the suspect in a February massacre at a Florida high school announced his intention to become the next school shooter. The three videos released by prosecutors were found on the cellphone of suspect Nikolas Cruz after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people and injured 17 others.

Upcoming Summer And Fall Employment And Networking Fairs [Education News]

Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan is hosting several upcoming employment and networking fairs in June, August, September, October and November. Fairs focuses include but are not limited to education employment, part-time jobs, accounting and finance employment, and health and human services employment.

Princeton University’s Vertical Farming Project Partners With Local Elementary School

US Gains 223K Jobs; Unemployment At 18-Year Low Of 3.8 Pct. [Beyond Education]

U.S. employers extended a streak of solid hiring in May, adding 223,000 jobs and helping lower the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent from 3.9 percent in April. Average hourly pay rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier, a slightly faster annual rate than in April. But pay growth remains below levels that are typical when the unemployment rate is this low.

Guatemala Volcano Toll Up As Rescuers Dig In Ash, Mud Flows [Beyond Education]

Rescuers used heavy machinery and shovels found the bodies of several more victims of an eruption at Guatemala's Volcano of Fire on Monday, and rescuers pulled 10 people still alive from ash drifts and mud flows.The official death toll stood at 25 but Associated Press journalists saw more burned and ash-covered bodies being unloaded after being dug out in the village of El Rodeo.

Jimmy Fallon Thanks Parkland Students For Schooling World [Education News]

The surprise commencement speaker at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people in February was Jimmy Fallon, who said he wanted to thank the students personally for their courage and bravery. "You guys have already proved that to everyone. You took something horrific and instead of letting it stop you, you started a movement.”

Team Studies Bones To Identify The Disappeared In Mexico [Beyond Education]

The fragments of burnt bone laid out by investigators for the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team are among the remains of tens of thousands of people who have simply disappeared in Mexico's long and bloody drug war. These particular bones come from one of three isolated ranches in the city of Cuauhtemoc in the northern border state of Chihuahua.

Ohio State University To Expand Aid Initiative To Regionals [Education News]

Ohio State University plans to expand a financial aid program from its main campus to include regional campuses. The university expects to spend some $3 million a year starting in spring 2019 to extend the program aiming to close the aid gap for low- and moderate-income students.

Teen With Cerebral Palsy Stuns Mom By Walking At Graduation [On A Positive Note In Education]

An Ohio teenager who has cerebral palsy and was never expected to be able to walk has shocked her family by doing just that at her high school graduation. The Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier reports 19-year-old Lexi Wright left her wheelchair and used a walker to cross a stage in her cap and gown to accept her diploma at the Ravenna High School ceremony last week.

Immigration Agents Arrest 114 In Landscaper Sting [Beyond Education]

U.S. immigration agents made more than 100 arrests Tuesday at an Ohio gardening and landscaping company, one of the largest such stings in recent years and part of the Trump administration's growing crackdown on employers for hiring people who are in the country illegally.