Just because your kids are headed off to college, it doesn’t mean they’ll graduate; Trump visits Ohio State victims, officer who killed attacker; ‘You’re gonna die’: Woman indicted in threats to father of Sandy Hook victim; Education Department places hefty conditions on University of Phoenix sale; Thousands of Virginians may be eligible for student loan forgiveness. And they might not even know it.;
 
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Just because your kids are headed off to college, it doesn’t mean they’ll graduate
If students treat college like a spectator sport, it’s likely the game will end early for them.
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Trump visits Ohio State victims, officer who killed attacker
Trump has said that the attack was carried out by “a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.”
 
‘You’re gonna die’: Woman indicted in threats to father of Sandy Hook victim
His six-year-old son was gunned down at school. Then the death threats came, from people who believed a conspiracy theory that the mass shooting was an elaborate hoax.
 
Education Department places hefty conditions on University of Phoenix sale
The Education Department on Wednesday laid out stringent conditions for its approval of the $1.1 billion sale of Apollo Education Group, owner of the University of Phoenix and Western International University.
 
White flight is creating a separate and unequal system of higher education
American higher education has evolved into a two-tiered separate and unequal system that fuels the intergenerational reproduction of white racial privilege.
 
Thousands of Virginians may be eligible for student loan forgiveness. And they might not even know it.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring on Tuesday said his office is notifying some 5,300 people who attended a chain of defunct for-profit colleges of their eligibility for federal student loan forgiveness.
 
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