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How to Manage Federal Student Loans With MOHELA
If you’ve taken out federal student loans to finance your education (like I did) and you have MOHELA as your loan servicer, you need to take stock of where you stand with respect to your loans and learn about your repayment options. This is critical if you want to put your best “financial” foot forward… Read More
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A Teen Scientist Helped Me Discover Tons of Golf Balls Polluting the Ocean
Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gripping a cotton swab with its tail. As a scientist researching marine plastic pollution, I thought I had seen a lot. Then, early… Read More
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Featured Scholarships Today – January 23, 2019
Click on the titles to see details about each scholarship. 1. Sweet and Simple Scholarship – $1,500 2. Broke College Student Scholarship – $5,888 3. Mainstream News Sucks Scholarship – $5,555 Read More
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What You Need to Know to Manage Your FedLoan Account
If you’ve taken out federal student loans to finance your education (like I did) and you have FedLoan Servicing as your loan servicer, you need to take stock of where you stand with respect to your loans and learn about your repayment options. This is critical if you want to put your best “financial” foot… Read More
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Martin Luther King Jr. and His Support of Unions
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Those disadvantages have persisted. Today, for instance, the wealth of… Read More
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Featured Scholarships Today – January 21, 2019
Click on the titles to see details about each scholarship. 1.The LAGRANT Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship – $2,500 2. Broke College Student Scholarship – $5,888 3. Mainstream News Sucks Scholarship – $5,555 Read More
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More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies — And That’s a Good Thing
Back in the 1980s, Bates College and Bowdoin College were nearly the only liberal arts colleges not to require applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores. On Jan. 10, FairTest, a Boston-based organization that has been pushing back against America’s testing regime since 1985, announced that the number of colleges that are test-optional has… Read More
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Listening to Nature: How Sound Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change
Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical environmental signifier. Increasingly, we are learning that humans and animals are not the only organisms that use sound to communicate. So… Read More