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• College prep tests go missing for 200 students
• Teachers occupy Acapulco city hall over missing students
• Congressman should have been 'more sensitive' in suicide remarks: spokesman
• Cosign of the Times: The Rich Are Borrowing to Pay for College Too

College prep tests go missing for 200 students Posted: 23 Oct 2014 02:50 PM PDT Nearly 200 high school students are on edge after their college prep test scores were lost.

Teachers occupy Acapulco city hall over missing students Posted: 23 Oct 2014 02:42 PM PDT Around 100 teachers occupied the city hall of the Mexican tourist resort of Acapulco to demand authorities find dozens of students who disappeared nearly a month ago. "We demand to see alive the 43 victims of kidnapping by the authorities," said Walter Anorve, spokesman for the CETEG radical wing of the teachers' union. Anorve told AFP that the authorities were "delaying the process, while families are awaiting anxiously with uncertainty" since the night the youths disappeared on September 26 in the town of Iguala, which shares the state of Guerrero with Acapulco. Protesters torched the Iguala city hall Wednesday, while nearly 50,000 people marched in Mexico City.

Congressman should have been 'more sensitive' in suicide remarks: spokesman Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:25 PM PDT By Steve Quinn JUNEAU (Reuters) - A U.S. congressman should have taken a more "sensitive approach" when talking about teen suicide to a group of Alaska high school students he was addressing after a classmate recently took his own life, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Representative Don Young, a Republican, was answering questions on Monday from an initially friendly crowd of students and teachers at Wasilla High School when the politician said suicide can be attributed to a lack of support from family and friends, principal Amy Spargo said. ...

Cosign of the Times: The Rich Are Borrowing to Pay for College Too Posted: 22 Oct 2014 03:21 PM PDT Government grants and student loans notwithstanding, paying for college isn't easy if you're poor or working-class. When the affluent and the rich struggle with the same issues, however, the problems—spiraling college tuition coupled with the impact of the Great Recession—become a lot more obvious.

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