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CommonBond cofounder and CEO David Klein. CommonBond CommonBond's refinancing business took a massive hit amid the pandemic's interest and payment pause. It effectively exited the business in June and pivoted to loans for residential solar panels. The company's CEO David Klein announced the decision in a LinkedIn post. Student loan lending company CommonBond quietly announced […]
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has landed itself in hot water after staff asked a student to remove a sign, condemning Nazis, from her dorm window over “issues of inclusion.” Junior student, Nicole Parsons, placed a sign reading “F*** Nazis. You are not welcome here” in her dorm window earlier in December. A week later, […]
One US high school student’s red ‘Make America Great Again’ hat triggered his teacher into calling the kid an “a**hole” and evacuating the classroom. In a video filmed by his classmate, the kid’s teacher gives him a telling off for the hat, saying that other students are “provoked by the presence” of it. [embedded content] […]
Cassie Cope/The Charlotte Observer, via Associated Press A high school in near Charlotte, North Carolina, where one student fatally shot another on Monday, was criticized for resuming classes hours after the shooting. Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, defended the school’s decision Monday, saying that it was the appropriate thing to do to ensure that […]
This is the first full school year since Rowan’s Law was passed in Ontario. But although there’s plenty in it for parents, teachers, coaches and students to cheer about, there’s less to the concussion legislation than meets the eye — at least for now.
A fake pro-Israel protest manufactured by US-based lobbying groups has been exposed in an exclusive clip from a censored Al Jazeera documentary on Israel’s influence in the US. The release of the much-anticipated US version of undercover documentary The Lobby has been stalled since the UK version, which aired in 2017, revealed Israel’s influence within […]
Screenshot/Fox News As news broke that two of President Donald Trump’s former top aides were convicted of multiple federal crimes, Fox News focused its coverage on the killing of a 20-year-old college student. Critics lambasted the right-leaning network for minimizing coverage of the convictions of former top Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen. As […]
If you’re attending Saint Louis University this semester, you’ll find more in your dorm room than the usual tiny furnishings. The school has unveiled plans to provide all 2,300 student residences on campus (both dorms and apartments) with Echo Dots by the time classes begin in late August. To no one’s surprise, they’re not just […]
Apple’s student discount offers are back with the US technology firm dropping prices across a range of products. The Back To School / off to university sale is open to students and teachers with some big savings to be grabbed on iPads, MacBooks and Apple Music subscriptions. The education pricing is available to current and […]
TruTV Michael Torpey, an accomplished actor and writer, is hosting a trivia show where contestants compete to pay off their student loans. The show hopes to bring light to the student debt crisis in the US. The show premieres tonight at 10 p.m. EST on TruTV. With the student loan debt crisis at an all-time […]
