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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc (C.N) said it would sell Student Loan Corp (STU.N) to Discover Financial Services in a complicated deal that will reduce the bank’s assets but also result in a $500 million charge this quarter. Discover (DFS.N) is paying $600 million for Student Loan Corp, which is 80 percent owned by Citigroup. Just before the transaction closes, Student Loan Corp will sell $28 billion of assets to Sallie Mae (SLM.N) and $8.7 billion of assets to Citigroup
DETROIT — Many college students are carrying more than a heavy class load this fall. Total student loan debt exceeds total credit card debt in this country, with $850 billion outstanding , according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com, websites that provide information about student aid and scholarships.
With another summer ending, the time has come to ask the perennial question: Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book? Some think that developments since the last buying cycle, particularly the arrival of Apple ‘s iPad computing tablet, might foreshadow an especially good year for electronic texts. CourseSmart, an e-textbook consortium comprising five major publishers, says it has sold four times more e-textbooks in 2009-10 than it did the previous year (although it would not provide the number of copies)
Before hurricane Katrina, the school system in New Orleans was like a dysfunctional marching band: It had structure and central direction, but academic failure and corruption dragged it down. Five years later, the schools are like a nascent jazz band: bursting with energy and improvisation and making bold academic strides – but still far from achieving their full promise
JACKSON, Miss. – A policy designed to achieve racial equality at a north Mississippi school has long meant that only white kids can run for some class offices one year, black kids the next.
GRINNELL, Iowa — In order to separate doting parents from their freshman sons, Morehouse College in Atlanta has instituted a formal “Parting Ceremony.” Enlarge This Image Brian C. Frank for The New York Times Boyd Monson, 19, and his father, Ronald Monson, at Grinnell College in Iowa, which holds a ceremony to formalize separation
Want to feed squirrels, transform into a zombie or use science to whip up bacon-flavored cotton candy? Forget chess club
Teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to drop out of high school or delay completing high school than other kids, a new study has found. Researchers analyzed U.S
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