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• 2016 campaign checklist: Hillary Clinton
• Would You Send Your 7-Year-Old to an Online Elementary School?
• Pen an Application to Scholarships for Poets, Writers
• Survey finds US families spending less on prom
• Fulbright Scholarship Program One Path to U.S. Graduate Study

2016 campaign checklist: Hillary Clinton Posted: 10 Apr 2014 03:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A look at Hillary Rodham Clinton's preparations for a potential 2016 presidential campaign:

Would You Send Your 7-Year-Old to an Online Elementary School? Posted: 10 Apr 2014 01:48 PM PDT Kyra Ragsdale spends hours researching online elementary schools for her first-grader. As a result, he becomes frustrated and bored by a curriculum that doesn't challenge him and doesn't include subjects he wants to learn. Ragsdale sees an online elementary school as a viable opportunity. According to the International Association for K–12 Online Learning (iNACOL), 315,000 kindergarten–through–12th grade students are enrolled in online schools, compared with about 50,000 students 10 years ago.

Pen an Application to Scholarships for Poets, Writers Posted: 10 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT Whether you're an aspiring poet looking to fund your writing degree or an inspired biology major with an extracurricular knack for spoken word performance, there are scholarship selection committees waiting to enjoy your poetry, prose and other creative works. The Poetry Foundation sponsors the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. This scholarship is great for young writers, because it comes with the opportunity to be published. Poetry Out Loud sponsors a national spoken poetry competition, where high school students compete for a $20,000 national scholarship and varying smaller awards at the state level.

Survey finds US families spending less on prom Posted: 10 Apr 2014 06:02 AM PDT Americans are spending less on one of their most beloved springtime rituals, the high school prom, according to a national survey released Wednesday. "Despite the drop this year, prom spending still remains disproportionately high and represents a major expense for American families with high school students," said Visa, the credit card company that commissioned the survey.

Fulbright Scholarship Program One Path to U.S. Graduate Study Posted: 10 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT Studying in the U.S. can turn into a very costly experience if students don't plan ahead and budget their money accordingly. For some students, it might even be impossible to pursue their studies in the States, given average annual tuition of more than $30,000 at four-year private colleges. I was one of those students, too. I dreamed of earning my master's degree in the U.S. before committing to a regular job, and I knew I wouldn't be able to live that dream if I didn't find a way to pay for it.

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