Costs - Page 22

May 3, 2016

Common Core rollout hits money trouble

Five years into the biggest transformation of U.S. public education in recent history, Common Core is far from common.

May 3, 2016

Promise kept: Anonymously funded tuition program in Michigan still delivers 10 years later

An anonymously funded program that pays the college tuition of students from the Kalamazoo public school district in Michigan has given out $67 million in scholarships since being announced 10 years ago.

May 3, 2016

Dartmouth, rural Vermont town have tuition agreement spanning generations

For more than a century Dartmouth College has been making good on a promise to students from a hardscrabble Vermont town that helped the keep the school afloat in its early years: get in, and your tuition is free.

May 3, 2016

Michigan teen 1st recipient of scholarship named after slain journalist James Foley

A Detroit-area teen is the first recipient of a Marquette University scholarship named after journalist James Foley.

May 3, 2016

Families face 10th anniversary of Ohio Marine deaths; some memorialize loss by helping others

Some people look surprised and tell him they just can't believe it's been 10 years already.

May 3, 2016

Wheel nice: Restoration students go for a spin at classic car college

Eugene Toner stomped on the foot-operated ignition.

May 3, 2016

Hundreds of Syrians find a home at US universities with eye to rebuilding war-torn country

Tens of thousands of college students have been displaced by the long-running conflict in Syria.

May 3, 2016

Blind high school pole vaulter Charlotte Brown wins bronze medal at Texas state championships

For three years, Charlotte Brown has been chasing a medal by trying to jump over a bar she couldn't see.

May 3, 2016

10 young scholars to compete for $50,000 scholarship in National Geographic Bee

Ten kids with unusually strong knowledge of nations, cities, cultures and history are set to compete in the finals of this year's National Geographic Bee.

May 3, 2016

From legal advice to scholarships, colleges expand support for students living in US illegally

A small but growing number of public and private colleges are rolling out their own welcome mats for students who were brought to the United States illegally as children.