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The Learning Network: Test Yourself | Math, Jan. 31, 2011

To protest the high cost of his tuition, a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder paid his spring semester tuition of $14,309.51 using $1 dollar bills and change. If a $1 bill weighs about one gram, about how many pounds did the student's money weigh?
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Spanish-U.S. Master’s Degree Will Be Steeped in Liberal Arts

The IE Business School and Brown University are teaming up on a business degree intended to broaden the student’s background.
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The Learning Network: Photo Quote Challenge

Our favorite submissions from our third Student Challenge, in which participants matched a Times photo with a quotation of their choice from history, literature or pop culture.
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The Learning Network: Student Crossword | 2010 in Review

Complete our Student Crossword to see what you remember about the people and events of 2010.
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The Learning Network: 55 Questions for Students

A list of 55 Student Opinion questions we've asked since the school year began. Invite your students to come and post comments on any of them!
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SAIG Mailbox Functions Unavailable October 30-31, 2010

During the period October 30-31, 2010, the Department of Education will be completing extended maintenance activity that will impact all functions of the Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) mailbox servers. From Saturday, October 30, 2010 from 6:00 P.M. (ET) until Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 11:00 A.M. (ET) all SAIG mailbox functions will be unavailable.
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Search for Missing College Student Becomes Death Investigation – KBOI

msnbc.com Search for Missing College Student Becomes Death Investigation KBOI Photo Courtesy - NIU Police Department(DEKALB, Ill.) -- Police have found human remains in the park where a Northern Illinois University college student was ... Illinois Authorities now believe missing college student is dead NECN all 226 news articles
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More Debt for Graduating Seniors

College seniors who graduated in 2009 had an average of $24,000 in student loan debt, up 6 percent from the previous year, according to data released Thursday by the Project on Student Debt. At the same time, unemployment for recent college graduates climbed from 5.8 percent in 2008 to 8.7 percent in 2009 – the highest annual rate on record for college graduates aged 20 to 24. Details are available from the project's Web site.
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Only 1 in 7 Schools Created Preferred Lender List for Private Loans for 2010-11 (Student Lending Analytics)

"In findings that mirrored the results of an SLA flash survey last December, only 1 in 7 survey respondents created a private loan lender list for 2010-11 through a formal selection process," Student Lending Analytics reports. "The most popular strategy: listing all lenders that students have used in the last 3-5 years, which certainly will not make life easy for new entrants into the marketplace."
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Hastings College group to offer bike education, alternative transportation event

HASTINGS -- The Hastings College Student Environmental Action Coalition will present "Get up & Move," an educational and fun event "promoting all forms of alternative transportation" beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Fleharty Center parking lot (800 E. 12th St.) on the Hastings College campus.
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