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• Your Expensive Private College Wasn't a Good Investment (The Atlantic Wire)
• Judge weighs request to block Ind. voucher program (AP)
• Boy tells teacher he spent vacation making explosives (Reuters)
• Principal found dead in Memphis classroom, student held (Reuters)

Your Expensive Private College Wasn't a Good Investment (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:54 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - In their August issue, Smart Money released their annual, very practical college rankings. They do it by return on tuition investment. While Ivy Leagues did predictably well, the rankings also confirmed the worst stereotypes about non-Ivy league private colleges: they're hideously expensive and, to say it delicately, aren't the greatest investment:

Judge weighs request to block Ind. voucher program (AP) Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:14 PM PDT AP - Students who have signed up for Indiana's broad new school voucher program could be jerked out of private schools midsemester or forced to scramble to re-enroll in public school unless it's allowed to proceed pending the outcome of a legal challenge, state officials argued Thursday.

Boy tells teacher he spent vacation making explosives (Reuters) Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:13 AM PDT Reuters - A Tennessee boy asked what he did on his summer vacation surprised his teacher, and local authorities, by saying he made explosive devices, police said on Thursday.

Principal found dead in Memphis classroom, student held (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:13 PM PDT Reuters - The female principal of a small Christian school in Memphis was found dead on Wednesday and a 17-year-old male student was in custody, police said.

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