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  2. Ragging - Wikipedia

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    Ragging is the term used for the so-called "initiation ritual" practiced in higher education institutions in India, Pakistan, [1] Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.The practice is similar to hazing in North America, fagging in the UK, bizutage in France, praxe in Portugal, and other similar practices in educational institutions across the world.

  3. List of United States education acts - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of acts enacted by the United States Congress pertaining to education in the United States. Many laws related to education are codified under Title 20 of the United States Code. This list does not include resolutions designating a specific day, week, or month in honor of an educational goal.

  4. Hazing - Wikipedia

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    Hazing of a French military pilot in 1997 at 1,000 hours of flight time. Hazing (), initiation, [1] beasting [2] (British English), bastardisation (Australian English), ragging (South Asian English) or deposition refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of a person's willingness to participate.

  5. Society Against Violence in Education - Wikipedia

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    The Society Against Violence in Education (SAVE) is an impartial, neutral and independent, non-profit organisation whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of students in educational institutions and to provide the victims of 'ragging' with assistance and also to facilitate the eradication of ragging from educational institutions through awareness, advocacy ...

  6. Morrill Land-Grant Acts - Wikipedia

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    Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862: Long title: An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Nicknames: Morrill Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress: Effective: July 2, 1862: Citations; Public law ...

  7. Education policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Impact Aid laws in 1950 provided further benefits for American citizens and communities affected by the war. The benefits provided by these programs proved longer lasting than those of the New Deal. [2] [12] Several additional changes to education policy took place in 1946.

  8. Higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A US Department of Education longitudinal survey of 15,000 high school students in 2002 and 2012, found that 84% of the 27-year-old students had some college education, but only 34% achieved a bachelor's degree or higher; 79% owe some money for college and 55% owe more than $10,000; college dropouts were three times more likely to be unemployed ...

  9. Lists of American universities and colleges - Wikipedia

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    List of Jewish universities and colleges in the United States; List of law schools in the United States; List of leaders of universities and colleges in the United States; List of liberal arts colleges in the United States; List of medical schools in the United States; List of online colleges in the United States; List of the largest United ...