follows the college application process for six different high school students. Also included is a video on one of the students.

numbers. A total of 178,855 students are going to college which is up 4.2% from last year.

Ken writes in the Buffalo News on the 32,000 college debt he racked up as a history major.

colleges should warn students about college debt. The article looks at a couple people that have racked up a high amount of debt.

has issued a report on how well giving a laptop to seventh and eighth graders in the state has helped writing skills. The report compared Maine Educational Assessment scores from the year 2000 and 2005. The scores went up 3.44 points.

In 2000 only 29.1% of 8th graders passed the writing part of the exam in 2005 41.4% did.

dropouts in North Carolina finds the state’s 715,000 working-age dropouts cost at least $712 million annually in lost sales tax revenue, around 6 million in prison costs and 155 million in Medicare.