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• Kenya slow to cooperate on war crimes, court says
• Comptroller: Texas schools racking up rising debt
• Teen Takes Educators to Twitter School
• Why Prospective College Students Should Be Using Net Price Calculators
• Which Colleges Are Successfully Graduating High-Income Students?

Kenya slow to cooperate on war crimes, court says Posted: 25 Oct 2012 11:30 AM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor on Thursday said Kenya's government had not cooperated fully in providing evidence for the trial of four prominent Kenyans accused of fuelling post-election violence in 2007. The group includes leading presidential hopefuls and former finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former higher education minister William Ruto. They face trial in about six months, charged with masterminding the bloodshed that killed more than 1,200 people. All have said they are innocent. ...

Comptroller: Texas schools racking up rising debt Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT Texas school districts are racking up escalating taxpayer debt to build new classrooms and buy equipment, the state's Republican comptroller said Thursday, as a trial gets under way on how the state funds public schools after slashing spending by $5.4 billion.

Teen Takes Educators to Twitter School Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:36 AM PDT Fifteen-year-old Adora Svitak knows students nowadays "live, work and play" social media.

Why Prospective College Students Should Be Using Net Price Calculators Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:31 AM PDT While the average published tuition prices at colleges and universities have increased since the 2007-2008 school year, the average student has not shouldered the brunt of the rising costs, a new study has found.

Which Colleges Are Successfully Graduating High-Income Students? Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:28 AM PDT U.S. News is often asked to collect, analyze, and publish more information about how well colleges and universities are serving their students from different income levels. We recently conducted a first-ever analysis of how successful colleges are at graduating low-income students, based on data exclusively collected by U.S. News. Now, for the first time, we are also able to answer the question of how schools are doing at graduating their students who come from families with the highest incomes relative to the rest of their student body.

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