Do Tech Incubators Work? NYU Tandon Future Labs Answer: 3,200 Jobs And $4B For New York [Education Jobs News]

NYU Tandon School of Engineering's FutureLabs reported an estimated economic impact on New York City's economy of $4.06 billion since launching in 2009 as the first incubators with city support through the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). The NYU Tandon Future Labs supported 3,201 jobs in New York State, including 2,740 jobs in New York City.

Lawsuit: Trump's Ending Immigrant Program Racially Motivated [Beyond Education]

Haitian and Salvadoran immigrants sued President Donald Trump on Thursday, arguing that the Republican administration's decision to end special protections shielding them from deportation was racially motivated. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston seeks to block the administration from terminating temporary protective status for thousands of immigrants from Haiti and El Salvador.

WVU Team To Study Brain Implant's Ability To Treat Addiction [Education News]

A group of researchers at West Virginia University plans to study how a brain implant could affect opioid cravings for people with substance use disorder. Neuroscientist Dr. Ali Rezai is developing the implant, which will transmit electric impulses to the reward system of the brain.

Civil Disobedience: Teen Shooting Survivors Shake Up Capitol [Education News]

Holding hand-scrawled signs and wearing black "Parkland Strong" T-shirts, the 40 teenagers filed warily into a committee room at Florida's state Capitol on Wednesday. They hadn't been invited and the lawmakers they were intruding upon were in the middle of a meeting. Timid yet determined, they stood their ground. And they got what they wanted: a chance to speak.

Bill Dies, Forced Public Comment For Higher Education Tuition Raises

A bill that would force colleges and universities to allow public comments before raising tuition has been voted down in the Virginia Senate. The Virginian-Pilot reports the bill was defeated Tuesday by a Senate committee's 6-4 vote after it passed unanimously through the House. It would have forced public schools to give a formal opportunity for comment at a board meeting before increasing tuition.

Higher Education Institution Offers Scholarships To Fallen Officer's Daughters

An Ohio university has offered full four-year scholarships to the children of a police officer fatally shot while responding to a 911 hang-up call. A representative from Otterbein University announced the scholarships to all three of Officer Eric Joering's daughters during a Westerville City Council meeting Tuesday evening. Council members voted unanimously at the same meeting to retire the officer's K-9 partner, Sam, to live with the Joering family.

Florida Shooting Survivors In Capital, Demand Action On Guns [Education News]

Students who survived the Florida school shooting prepared to flood the Capitol Wednesday pushing to ban the assault-style rifle used to kill 17 people, vowing to make changes in the November election if they can't persuade lawmakers to change laws before their legislative session ends. About 100 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students arrived at a Tallahassee high school to extended applause late Tuesday after a 400-mile (640-kilometer) trip on three buses.

SLCC Advisor Chosen for National Award

Salt Lake Community College advisor Héctor E. Cando was chosen by the National Association of Academic Advisors (NACADA) to receive its Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit in the Academic Advising—Primary Role category. The award is given to advisors who demonstrate qualities associated with outstanding academic advising of students and whose role at their institutions are the direct delivery of advising to students. Cando will receive the award this fall at NACADA’s annual conference in Atlanta.

School Library February 2018

To call Juan Felipe Herrera an accomplished writer would be a gross understatement. Not only did one of his children’s book, “Calling the Doves,” win the Ezra Jack Keats Award and another of his works, “The Upside Down Boy,” was turned into a musical, but Herrera is also the first Latino to become a United States’ poet laureate. And so it is with great honor that we feature Herrera in this month’s school library. Information, Teacher’s Guides and Author Study Toolkit courtesy of Lee & Low Books.

Nos Dabamos Fuerza We Gave Each Other Strength

Uncensored February 2018 by <b> Margaret Orchowski </b>

‘Career Ready’ Out of High School? Why the Nation Needs to Let Go of That Myth by <b> Anthony P. Carnevale </b>

This community college issue stresses the importance of encouraging students to pursue a higher education degree. For many students, the access and relative affordability of a two-year school rather than a four-year school could be the means to dispel the myth that a high school diploma makes them “career ready.”