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• Some US colleges calling students back from Israel
• Judge blocks North Carolina school voucher program
• Crowdfunding Your Medical Bills
• Fewer U.S. youth using sunscreen new study finds
• Iowa-based higher education consultants to merge
• 5 Must-Download Apps for College Students
• Millennials Latest College Funding Strategy

Some US colleges calling students back from Israel Posted: 21 Aug 2014 04:34 PM PDT HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — Some U.S. colleges are pulling students from overseas study programs in Israel as the Gaza war rages, though the relative calm beyond the immediate battle areas is raising questions in some quarters about why they had to leave.

Judge blocks North Carolina school voucher program Posted: 21 Aug 2014 02:23 PM PDT A North Carolina judge on Thursday blocked the state's new school voucher program, saying it unconstitutionally diverted money from public education to private schools, many of them religious. The Opportunity Scholarship program, designed to give poor and middle-class families public funds to help pay private school tuition, was passed by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature last year and had already begun operating. School vouchers have drawn criticism from those who say they drain money from public schools and subsidize overtly religious education. In his order blocking the program, Judge Robert Hobgood said it diverted money that under the state constitution can only be used for public schools.

Crowdfunding Your Medical Bills Posted: 21 Aug 2014 09:32 AM PDT Jennifer Anderson, 33, knew her entire life that she would be unable to have kids naturally. Then one day when she was browsing Facebook, Anderson came across a link to the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, where people could ask for money from friends, family and strangers to help fund anything from medical bills and college tuition to vacations and weddings.

Fewer U.S. youth using sunscreen new study finds Posted: 21 Aug 2014 08:57 AM PDT The percentage of high school students using sunscreen dropped from 67.7 percent in 2001 to 56.1 percent in 2011, according to the study by researchers at William Paterson University in New Jersey and published Thursday in the publication Preventing Chronic Disease. The study analyzed survey data from high school students collected for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. The drop in sunscreen use occurred as melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, increased 1.6 percent annually among men from 2001 to 2010 and 1.4 percent among women, the study said.

Iowa-based higher education consultants to merge Posted: 21 Aug 2014 07:03 AM PDT A Cedar Rapids-based company that provides fundraising and enrollment management services to colleges and universities announced Thursday the acquisition of a company that specializes in higher education ...

5 Must-Download Apps for College Students Posted: 21 Aug 2014 06:37 AM PDT This year's crop of college freshmen was in elementary school when Apple Inc. released its first iPhone and, along with it, the App Store. Keeping up with which apps are the best bets for taking notes, managing schedules and studying for an upcoming exam can be a full-time job, though, with hundreds of new apps released every day. Below are five must-download apps for college students. Campus apps: Colleges have started to jump on the mobile craze, and schools such as Ohio State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have launched apps that allow students to check grades, manage their university accounts and track campus bus lines.

Millennials Latest College Funding Strategy Posted: 21 Aug 2014 01:37 AM PDT Millennials are socking away money for their kids' college education earlier than their parents did for them.

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