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• Driver's ed car collides with truck; 2 teens dead, 2 injured
• Turkish court deals blow to Erdogan, overturns law that shut rival's schools
• Colleges With the Highest Percentage of ESL Students
• Count on Showing Financial Ability to U.S. Colleges
• Turkish court annuls law closing schools linked to cleric

Driver's ed car collides with truck; 2 teens dead, 2 injured Posted: 14 Jul 2015 04:22 PM PDT WARWICK, N.Y. (AP) — Two 16-year-old high school students were killed and two were injured along with their instructor when their driver's ed car was struck by a truck in a rural intersection in southeastern New York, 4 miles from the New Jersey border Tuesday morning.

Turkish court deals blow to Erdogan, overturns law that shut rival's schools Posted: 14 Jul 2015 08:21 AM PDT By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's top court has struck down legislation that would have shut thousands of private schools, dealing a blow to President Tayyip Erdogan's efforts to curb the influence of a cleric he has accused of covertly seeking to topple him. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu questioned the timing of the decision, which came late on Monday, as he engages in talks with opposition party leaders to form a coalition government after a June 7 election. Many of the schools are run by followers of U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, providing his Hizmet (Service) network with revenues and new recruits.

Colleges With the Highest Percentage of ESL Students Posted: 14 Jul 2015 06:00 AM PDT The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College, The Short List: Grad School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matter to you in your college or graduate school search.

Count on Showing Financial Ability to U.S. Colleges Posted: 14 Jul 2015 05:30 AM PDT "It's going to vary school by school," says Clara Priester, a regional educational advising coordinator for EducationUSA, which provides international students with information about U.S. schools. The process typically works like this: Students apply to a school, and either at that point or after they are accepted the school will request proof of finances for a year or more. After a school decides a student can pay, it will send the student an I-20 form to take to a U.S. embassy or consulate as part of the application for a student visa.

Turkish court annuls law closing schools linked to cleric Posted: 14 Jul 2015 12:57 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Media reports say Turkey's highest court has annulled legislation that would have closed down private schools linked to a movement led by a U.S.-based Muslim cleric.

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