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• Muhlenberg rescinds honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby
• Guatemala's next leader eyes GPS tags on teachers, phones for kids
• Thousands of N.Y. students to get $10 'Hamilton' musical tickets
• Grant lets 20,000 NYC students see 'Hamilton' on Broadway
• The 10 states where college students graduate with the most debt
• Never Pay Full Tuition: 3 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College

Muhlenberg rescinds honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby Posted: 27 Oct 2015 02:42 PM PDT ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Muhlenberg College has become the latest school to rescind an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby following renewed accusations of sexual assault against the comedian.

Guatemala's next leader eyes GPS tags on teachers, phones for kids Posted: 27 Oct 2015 12:26 PM PDT By Alexandra Alper and Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Basking in the glory of a landslide in Guatemala's presidential election, a former comedian with no government experience has some unorthodox policy plans: he will tag teachers with GPS trackers to ensure attendance and give poor kids smartphones. Jimmy Morales, 46, who sailed to victory with 67.5 percent of the vote on an anti-corruption platform, has said little about how he would curb gang violence or stem the flow of migrants to the United States, leaving a cloud of uncertainty over key issues. "No other candidate has been called everything from a clown to a populist, but the smartphone is the least populist (idea) that there is," Morales said in an interview on Monday, the day after his massive win.

Thousands of N.Y. students to get $10 'Hamilton' musical tickets Posted: 27 Oct 2015 12:20 PM PDT By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some 20,000 New York City public high school students will be offered cut-rate $10 tickets to attend performances of the hip-hop musical sensation "Hamilton," the hottest show on Broadway, in a bid to hook them on history. The Rockefeller Foundation, a New York philanthropic organization, will subsidize the tickets with a $1.46 million grant to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, a nonprofit group that is developing educational programming to use the musical in the classroom. "Hamilton" uses rap and R&B influences and color-blind casting to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States who served as treasury secretary under President George Washington and led the creation of the U.S. financial system.

Grant lets 20,000 NYC students see 'Hamilton' on Broadway Posted: 27 Oct 2015 11:22 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Some 20,000 New York City high school students will see the Broadway hit "Hamilton" thanks to a $1.46 million grant announced Tuesday by the Rockefeller Foundation.

The 10 states where college students graduate with the most debt Posted: 27 Oct 2015 10:43 AM PDT lass of 2014 graduated with an average debt of $28,950, the highest level since the Institute for College Access & Success began tracking student debt 10 years ago.

Never Pay Full Tuition: 3 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College Posted: 27 Oct 2015 03:15 AM PDT The average tuition at public colleges and universities was $19,000 last year, while the tuition at private schools was $33,000, according to the College Board. Nearly nine in 10 first-time, full-time freshmen at private universities receive some sort of institutional aid, with the average award amounting to 48 percent of tuition, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers  (NACUBO). "It's just like airline ticket prices," says financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz.

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