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Talks Back on to Reach Out-Of-Court Settlement for N.L. Residential Schools

Negotiations have resumed to reach an out-of-court settlement for former residential school students in this province. Talks between lawyers representing the former students and the federal government broke off on Thursday without a deal, but said Tuesday that progress was made over the weekend. “The discussions are ongoing.


Trump University Students Say They Were Pressured to Give Rave Reviews

Trump University Students Say They Were Pressured to Give Rave Reviews Professors stood by and watched their students complete the class evaluations and, in some cases, instructed the students to give them the highest rating. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Plymouth State University, February 7, 2016, in Plymouth, New Hampshire. By Rachel …


Woman Wants Out of Lawsuit Against Trump University, but Trump’s Lawyers Say No

Lawyers for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday contested an Orange County woman’s request to withdraw from a lawsuit she filed against Trump University, claiming the entire case was built around her and it would be unfair to the defense for her to bail out now. “We’ve passed the point of no return,” attorney Daniel Petrocelli told U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San …


Trump Is to Appear in Court to Defend Claims He Defrauded Thousands of Students

Donald Trump plans to appear in the witness box to deny allegations that he defrauded thousands of people who signed up for courses at a now defunct college – even while campaigning to be US president. Earlier this week, a court in New York allowed a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit to proceed against Mr Trump, who is accused of misleading thousands of people who paid up to $35,000 to …



Former Residential School Student Says Info Withheld on Priest Who Abused Him

Justice department lawyers have been accused of withholding documents that show a priest who worked at an infamous Indian residential school for nearly four decades was a serial sexual predator even as they persuaded an adjudicator to deny compensation to a former student who said the priest abused him. The man, who was a student of St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont., is …


Residential School Survivor ‘Elated’ by Settlement Talks

A woman from Nain—one of 1,200 former residential school students from this province suing for damages—says she’s elated by a decision to halt the trial in a class action lawsuit so settlement talks can be held. “I wasn’t expecting it, but I’m very happy,” said Cindy Dwyer. “After eight years of all this waiting, I’m actually elated.”


UC-Berkeley Students Sue Google, Alleging Their Emails Were Illegally Scanned

A sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in 2015. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Four students and alumni from the University of California-Berkeley have sued Google in federal court, alleging that the company — which runs the university’s email accounts — illegally intercepted and scanned emails for advertising purposes without students’ knowledge or consent. Google’s Gmail …


New Analysis Offers More Evidence Against Student Evaluations of Teaching

There’s mounting evidence suggesting that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable. But are these evaluations, commonly referred to as SET, so bad that they’re actually better at gauging students’ gender bias and grade expectations than they are at measuring teaching effectiveness? A new paper argues that’s the case, and that evaluations are biased against female instructors in particular …


New Analysis Offers More Evidence Against Student Evaluations of Teaching

There’s mounting evidence suggesting that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable. But are these evaluations, commonly referred to as SET, so bad that they’re actually better at gauging students’ gender bias and grade expectations than they are at measuring teaching effectiveness? A new paper argues that’s the case, and that evaluations are biased against female instructors in particular …