Education
Education Department Could Do More To Help Student Loan Borrowers With Disabilities
Federal law says borrowers with permanent disabilities can have their student loans discharged. But an NPR investigation has found that thousands have yet to get the help they're entitled to.
Student Loan Borrowers With Disabilities Aren't Getting Help They Were Promised
Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are eligible to have their student loans erased because a disability keeps them from working. NPR found many will likely never get the debt relief they're owed.
News Brief: Impeachment Probe, NATO Meeting, Student Loan Investigation
The impeachment inquiry moves to the House Judiciary Committee. A showdown between Turkey and the rest of NATO. And, student loan borrowers with disabilities aren't getting the help they deserve.
At Harvard, Grad Students Form A Picket Line Over Wages, Health Care And Protections
Union leaders and university officials have been negotiating for over a year, yet a contract has not been agreed to. Grad students began an indefinite strike on the university's last day of classes.
What A Fake ICE University Says About Immigration Enforcement
The "University of Farmington" wasn't a university at all.
Founder Of Apostrophe Protection Society Disbands Group
John Richards, 96, founded the society 18 years ago to fight the "much abused" punctuation mark. He's ending the group because he says folks these days don't care about using apostrophes correctly.
Filmmaking Program Helps Disadvantaged Kids See A Path To Hollywood
Hollywood's film industry can be tough to break in to, and that's especially true if you are a poor kid without resources. Creating Creators is all about changing that — and it's having some success.
'We Wanted Our Patrons Back' — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity
"There were families that couldn't afford to pay the fines and therefore couldn't return the materials," Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said. "So then we just lost them as patrons."
Bringing Higher Education Into The Wild In Alaska
In remote Southeast Alaska, an experiment is bringing together radically diverse groups of college students to learn from the land, physical labor and each other.