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• Number of aging Americans paying student loans soars: U.S. report
• College Students Unaware Of 9/11 Anniversary [VIDEO]
• Severe storms forecast for Detroit, schools close early
• Women's colleges address transgender applicants
• Do Prepaid 529 Plans Ever Make Sense?
• Colleges Adopt Programs to Help Freshmen Adapt
• Colleges revisiting transgender student enrollment
• Public Schools Forcibly Subject Students To ‘Meatless Monday’ Activism

Number of aging Americans paying student loans soars: U.S. report Posted: 10 Sep 2014 01:35 PM PDT By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The rising cost of higher education is dogging Americans into retirement, with people aged 65 and older still carrying some $18.2 billion in unpaid student loans, according to a federal report released on Wednesday. While the Government Accountability Office report noted that relatively few U.S. Just 4 percent of households headed by someone 65 or older carried student loan debt as of 2010, up from 1 percent in 2004. "Some may think of student loan debt as a just a young person's problem," said U.S.

College Students Unaware Of 9/11 Anniversary [VIDEO] Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:30 AM PDT Dozens of students at George Washington University were unaware of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in recent interviews, while they were able to name celebrities involved in the nude photo scandal last week. Young America's Foundation spokeswoman Ashley Pratte went to George Washington University last week, and asked 30 students  a series of questions about the Sept. 11 anniversary, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and the recent theft of nude photos of various celebrities. Twenty-nine of the students were able to name at least one of the celebrities involved. In the video of the interviews, one of the students was completely unaware that Steven Sotloff and James Foley were beheaded, and seemed very taken aback by the news.

Severe storms forecast for Detroit, schools close early Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:50 AM PDT (Reuters) - A forecast of severe thunderstorms for the Detroit metro area on Wednesday afternoon prompted Detroit public schools to dismiss students early and city officials to warn residents of possible flooding. The National Weather Service issued a "hazardous weather outlook" for parts of southeast Michigan, with thunderstorms, the potential of localized flash flooding and wind gusts of around 60 mph (96 kph). Detroit officials asked residents to help prevent flooding by clearing storm drains of leaves and other trash in front of homes and businesses. Storms could develop through about 8 p.m. in the Detroit area south to the Ohio border, said Bryan Tilley, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

Women's colleges address transgender applicants Posted: 10 Sep 2014 08:10 AM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Women's colleges are revisiting policies around enrolling transgender students as institutions of higher learning — single-sex, coed and those with religious affiliations — demonstrate varying degrees of acceptance for changing norms.

Do Prepaid 529 Plans Ever Make Sense? Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:24 AM PDT Prepaid tuition plans allow parents and grandparents to do exactly that: pay for future college tuition at current rates. It sounds like a good deal, especially when you consider that tuition at public four-year colleges more than tripled between 1973 and 2013, according to The College Board.

Colleges Adopt Programs to Help Freshmen Adapt Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:30 AM PDT Consider this shocking stat as you shop for a college: Fully one-third of freshmen don't return for sophomore year. The goal "is to get students connected," says Martha McCaughey, a sociology professor and faculty coordinator of the required first-year seminar at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. The semesterlong discussion-based class pairs small groups of freshmen with faculty members teaching a topic they are passionate about. The reasons students drop out or transfer run the gamut, of course -- from family issues and money problems to loneliness and academic struggles.

Colleges revisiting transgender student enrollment Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:24 PM PDT SMITH COLLEGE

Public Schools Forcibly Subject Students To ‘Meatless Monday’ Activism Posted: 09 Sep 2014 07:18 PM PDT Taking a page from long-standing Christian tradition — particularly Catholic tradition — taxpayer-funded public schools across the United States are now denying children the option of eating meat for lunch one day each week. For American school children, the trendy new day of forswearing carnivorous deliciousness is Monday. "Meatless Monday" bills itself as an international campaign "launched in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health." It was founded by Sid Lerner, a longtime Madison Avenue advertising executive. The goal is to convince people to choose to give up meat one day each week because, as the Meatless Monday website explains, it's "fantastic for the planet."

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