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• College students protest debt on "Trillion Dollar Day"
• Parents wire kids to prove teachers' verbal abuse
• Why Retirement Saving Trumps College Tuition
• College Students Split on Political Graduation Speakers
• New Jersey Autistic Boy Records Teachers' Alleged Abuse
• 6 Common Misconceptions About Financial Aid
• Obama: College Debt 'Not Something I Read About in Briefing Book'

College students protest debt on "Trillion Dollar Day" Posted: NEW YORK (Reuters) - College students held demonstrations in several U.S. cities on Wednesday to mark the day total U.S. student loan debt was expected to reach $1 trillion, with some burning student loan documents and others demanding a right to "debt-free degrees." The demonstrations for "One Trillion Dollar Day" come as President Barack Obama was visiting colleges to push Congress to extend the low interest rates on college loans to more than 7.4 million students. If lawmakers fail to act, rates on the loans will double on July 1 to 6.8 percent. ...

Parents wire kids to prove teachers' verbal abuse Posted: Teachers hurled insults like "bastard," ''tard," ''damn dumb" and "a hippo in a ballerina suit." A bus driver threatened to slap one child, while a bus monitor told another, "Shut up, you little dog."

Why Retirement Saving Trumps College Tuition Posted: Many parents give their children financial support to attend college. Helping them to earn a college degree without taking on debt will certainly give your children a great start in their adult life. But too many parents lend support without considering their own financial circumstances, which could turn out to be a huge mistake. While living frugally to pay for college tuition is a worthy goal, it's not a good idea to fully fund your child's college costs if you need to neglect your retirement savings plan to do so. ...

College Students Split on Political Graduation Speakers Posted: When Wellesley College announced in March that MSNBC host and Tulane University professor Melissa Harris-Perry would be the 2012 commencement speaker, students seemed pleased. Wellesley students have a strong voice in deciding who speaks at graduation, says Kate Leonard, 2012 class president of the women's liberal arts school near Boston.

New Jersey Autistic Boy Records Teachers' Alleged Abuse Posted: Akian Chaifetz's Father Suspected Somethign Was Wrong and Put a Wire on His Son

6 Common Misconceptions About Financial Aid Posted: So, you've gotten into college (congrats!), filled out your FAFSA (great!) and are now staring at a financial aid award letter, wondering what to do next (uh-oh). As the May 1 deadline to accept financial aid offers approaches, TIME Moneyland spoke to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and Fastweb.com, to thwart many of the common misconceptions families have when it comes to financing a college education.

Obama: College Debt 'Not Something I Read About in Briefing Book' Posted: BOULDER, Colo. — President Obama tonight cast himself as a champion of an affordable college education and drew a veiled contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney in a speech before an electrified crowd at the University of Colorado. Calling a college education the "best tool...

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