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Student loan rates cut in half?

Sep 8, 2007
Congress is set to pass legislation that would increase student Pell grants and cut loan rates by about half, and President Bush says he'll sign it. Just about everyone's in favor, everyone except lenders. Jeremy Hobson explains.
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Why don't you write us?

Sep 7, 2007
Every month, we go over listener comments about the show. This month, Tess Vigeland gets responses on an old debt, the expertise of members in our investment club series and an engineering versus a liberal arts education.
Posted In: Education, Retirement
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College goal is out of reach -- for now

Sep 6, 2007
High school soccer champion Reyes Ventura badly wants to attend college, but government paperwork and a lack of money are holding him back. Paul Cuadros reports.
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A new mix for classroom diversity

Sep 6, 2007
In North Carolina, some supporters of traditional affirmative action now see a different way of creating diverse student bodies. Dave DeWitt reports.
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Education

Marketplace and Education Correspondent Amy Scott look at the business and economics of education, on topics including student loans, public education financing, and the cost of a college degree. Marketplace's Education coverage is supported, in part, by the Kresge Foundation.

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One School, One Year

Until eight years ago, almost nobody from Lower Price Hill in Cincinnati finished high school, much less went to college. Then the residents of Lower Price Hill decided to turn their old neighborhood school into a preschool-12 community learning center. But can a school really transform a neighborhood battered by crime and poverty? Follow our yearlong coverage of the Oyler Community Learning Center.

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