How One Mother's Battle Is Changing Police Training On Disabilities Patti Saylor's son, Ethan, died after an encounter with law enforcement when he was 26. She believes the incident could have been prevented with better training. Meg Anderson
How To Calculate The Cost Of College: A Guide To Financial Aid Terms For most students, figuring out where to go to college is closely linked with, "How am I gonna pay for it?" The answer — sort of — comes in lots of confusing terms and jargon. Elissa Nadworny
Felicity Huffman And 13 Others Plead Guilty In College Admissions Scandal Thirteen parents and one university athletic coach have agreed to plead guilty to charges of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in connect with the college admissions scandal. Anya Kamenetz
Maryland High School Students Confront Male Behavior In #MeToo Former Vice President Joe Biden has been called out for behavior that has made women uncomfortable. At a high school in Maryland, students are having similar discussions about their own behavior.
A Math Teacher's Life Summed Up By The Gifted Students He Mentored A biologist at Harvard was chatting with a colleague about a mentor who pushed him to do harder math problems. It turns out the colleague had the same mentor — and so did many others. Joe Palca
Senators To Consumer Watchdog: Prove You're Protecting Student Borrowers Several top Democrats sent a stern letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asking for evidence that it's policing the federal student loan industry. Cory Turner
Legislation Looks Into College Financial Aid Letters College and universities routinely send financial aid letters to prospective students that are utterly confusing. New legislation would require these letters to be uniform and easy to understand. Elissa Nadworny
For Some Students, There's A New Way To Pay For College There's a new way to pay for college. It's not debt — but students are on the hook after they graduate. Jacob Goldstein
Pressure, insomnia and hospitalization: The new normal for students applying to college "If you had asked me if I would chop my leg off if it meant admission to Stanford, I would say yes in a millisecond." Lila Shroff
O Canada: What do we really know about you? Canadian Kyla Sweet said Americans don't know much about Canada — but then Americans don't know much about anywhere, even their own country. Kim Malcolm