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• First Person: For Some, a High School Diploma Instead of a GED Doesn't Matter
• Feds' list of most expensive colleges
• Brussels army of 'slave' trainees escapes EU gaze
• Turn to State Higher Education Offices for Scholarship Help
• Fed Up Teachers Refuse to Teach Summer School in Texas

First Person: For Some, a High School Diploma Instead of a GED Doesn't Matter Posted: 27 Jun 2013 02:42 PM PDT FIRST PERSON | I had always been told that if I don't get a college education, or at the very least my high school diploma, I would go nowhere in life. Family, counselors, school officials and countless others told me this. I would like to think I proved them wrong.

Feds' list of most expensive colleges Posted: 27 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT What are the most expensive colleges? That depends what you mean by "most expensive." Are they the schools with the highest listed tuition — the highest sticker price? Or those with the highest average net price — what the typical student pays to attend after accounting for all expenses, but also all financial aid? What about different types of schools? Is it fair to compare public and private colleges?

Brussels army of 'slave' trainees escapes EU gaze Posted: 27 Jun 2013 10:39 AM PDT By Anders Melin BRUSSELS (Reuters) - When Alex Godson accepted his first unpaid internship in Brussels after receiving a master's degree in international relations from the University of Manchester, he believed a full-time position was just a few months away. But Godson bounced from one low-paid traineeship to another for three years before finally landing a proper job in May at the European Movement International, a Brussels-based group that lobbies for a federal Europe. ...

Turn to State Higher Education Offices for Scholarship Help Posted: 27 Jun 2013 08:57 AM PDT As you look for scholarships, financial aid and the perfect college fit, there are a lot of familiar resources. These include scholarship search engines, the federal student aid database and high school and college websites. But one useful source that plenty of students never think about is their state's office of higher education.

Fed Up Teachers Refuse to Teach Summer School in Texas Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:32 PM PDT Summer school in Dallas is lacking one critical component.

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