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• Students Are Paying 30% of Their College Costs
• Obama calls for 'Master Teachers' to help schools
• Chicago schools CEO criticizes report on teachers
• Obama turns to 'master teachers' to improve US math scores
• 4 Steps for Choosing Age-Based 529 Plans
• Why Children Are Getting More Expensive
• Obama proposes $1B for science, math teachers
• Jane Lynch Says: 'Don't Major in College Debt'

Students Are Paying 30% of Their College Costs Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:39 PM PDT Students are paying for more of their college education on their own now than they have for the past four years. Sallie Mae's "How America Pays For College" study, reported by Bloomberg Businessweek, involved 801 undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 24 and 800 parents, and found that 30 percent of the total cost of college in this academic year came from students' savings, incomes and loans. That's up from four years ago, when only 24 percent of the bill went to students, and just a year ago when 26 percent did.

Obama calls for 'Master Teachers' to help schools Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed a $1 billion program to recruit high-performing math and science teachers to mentor and evaluate their peers and help students excel. The so-called Master Teacher Corps program calls for recruiting 2,500 such educators at the outset and increasing that to 10,000 over four years, paying them $20,000 stipends on top of their base salaries. Each teacher would be required to serve at least four years. ...

Chicago schools CEO criticizes report on teachers Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:10 PM PDT Talk of a possible Chicago teacher strike got louder Wednesday, as the head of the school system blasted a fact-finder's recommendation to give teachers a double-digit raise, saying it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and lead to mass-layoffs and classroom crowding.

Obama turns to 'master teachers' to improve US math scores Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:18 PM PDT To ratchet up math and science achievement in American schools, President Obama announced Wednesday a plan to create a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Master Teacher Corps.

4 Steps for Choosing Age-Based 529 Plans Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:28 AM PDT Parents looking to save money for their child's college education might want greater stability than investing in the stock market but need more growth than what savings accounts offer. One option that could be more palatable: age-based 529 education savings plans.

Why Children Are Getting More Expensive Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:49 AM PDT Here's some bad news for parents: Even excluding college tuition, children are getting more expensive. The Agriculture Department reports that children born in 2011 will cost their parents $234,900 before they turn 18. That's 3.5 percent more than what those born in 2010 will cost. The report attributes the increase largely to the rising price of transportation, child care, education (before college), and food.

Obama proposes $1B for science, math teachers Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:29 AM PDT The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students' achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.

Jane Lynch Says: 'Don't Major in College Debt' Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:00 AM PDT Jane Lynch doesn't want you to struggle with student debt. On Tuesday, the actress launched the National College Finance Center website to provide a resource for educating students and their families about financing their college education. Lynch made a presentation in New York to highlight the features of the website and discuss America's college debt crisis. She said at the news conference:

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