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As college costs continue to rise, and in an economic climate where family incomes are suffering, more and more students must borrow in order to gain access to higher education. The result is that an increasing number of graduates find themselves saddled with high educational debt. As we previously reported, the Project on Student Debt estimates the average debt for 2009 bachelor’s degree recipients at $24,000. Students with advanced degrees may carry an even heavier burden.

According to a recent study by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, only 56 percent of 2010 graduates were able to find work. The New York Times and others have reported that the amount owed in student loans last year was greater than credit card debt and is expected to exceed $1 trillion this year. The result is many student loan borrowers are unable to repay their loans.

[Get tips on how to manage your student loans.]

In an effort to tackle this growing issue, Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) have introduced the Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2011 in the U.S. Senate. Representatives Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), Danny Davis (D-Ill.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), and George Miller (D-Calif.) introduced the related Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2011 in the House of Representatives. Both bills would restore the ability to discharge commercial student loans in bankruptcy proceedings, reversing a 2005 change to the law for borrowers who find themselves unable to make payments on their loans.

As explained in a press release from Senator Durbin’s office: “Before changes were made to the bankruptcy code in 2005, only government issued or guaranteed student loans were protected during bankruptcy. This protection has been in place since 1978 and was intended to safeguard federal investments in higher education. Today’s bill would restore the bankruptcy law, as it pertains to private student loans, to the language that was in place before 2005, so that privately issued student loans will once again be dischargeable in bankruptcy.”

Representative Cohen emphasized the need for the bill, echoing the sentiment of many who are concerned with the nation’s rapidly rising educational debt: “People who seek higher education to better their futures should not be dissuaded from doing so by the threat of financial ruin.” He added, “The bankruptcy system should work as a safety net that allows people to get the education they want with the assurance that, should their finances come under strain by layoffs, accidents or other unforeseen life events, they will be protected. My bill takes a modest but important step in achieving this goal.”

Bankruptcy protection is particularly important when it comes to private and commercial student loans because these loans are not eligible for the repayment assistance, forgiveness, and relief programs that accompany federal student loans. For example, neither the Income-Based Repayment plan nor the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is available for commercial loans. Access to these and other forgiveness programs is a significant factor to consider when choosing which types of student loans you should borrow to help finance your higher education.

[Find out more about forgiveness and repayment programs.]

Both bills have garnered the official backing of at least 35 organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers, The Institute for College Access & Success and its Project on Student Debt, and the National Consumer Law Center. In a letter to Senator Durbin, they expressed their support, stating, “Your bill would restore fairness for struggling Americans who pursued the American dream by going to college, only to find themselves in financial distress.”

The bills are currently in committee in their respective chambers. We will be tracking the progress of this significant legislation and will keep you informed.

Radhika Singh Miller is a program manager for Educational Debt Relief and Outreach at Equal Justice Works. In 2008, she served on the Student Loans Team in the Negotiated Rulemaking for the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA) and has extensive knowledge of this landmark educational debt relief legislation. Miller graduated from Loyola Law School Los Angeles and was most recently a staff attorney at the Partnership for Civil Justice, focusing on constitutional and civil rights litigation and advocacy.

The National Council on Teacher Quality’s National Review of Education Schools, which is being done in partnership with U.S. News, is well underway. The goal of the review is to rate more than 1,000 of the largest teacher preparation programs in the United States by awarding grades based on each program’s performance in 17 different standards on key elements of the design of a teacher training program, including the selectivity of their admissions, how well schools prepare teachers to teach reading, and classroom management training. The current goal is to publish the results in fall 2012.

Here’s an update on the project: NCTQ has posted a great deal of information on its website about the standards and indicators that it plans to use in the rankings, and has published a detailed Frequently Asked Questions document that covers many of the issues that relate to the rankings.

Since NCTQ started the review in early 2011, many in the teacher education community have spoken out against NCTQ’s ranking project. Both NCTQ and U.S. News have received protest letters detailing concerns with the review. NCTQ has created a web page, Transparency Central, that has many of those letters on it as well as an up-to-date, state-by-state status of how the data collection efforts are progressing and whether NCTQ is using open records requests to try to obtain the survey data.

There are many leaders in the field of education who are openly backing NCTQ’s efforts. A number of leaders in education and education organizations from across the country are endorsing NCTQ’s work; those endorsements are listed on Support for NCTQ’s National Review of Teacher Prep.

One of the recent endorsements for NCTQ’s rankings came from eight state school education chiefs who are part of the Chiefs for Change group, a coalition of state school chiefs that favor education reform. They said in their endorsement that:

[G]reat teachers make great students. Preparing teachers with the knowledge and skills to be effective educators is paramount to improving student achievement. Ultimately, colleges of education should be reviewed the same way we propose evaluating teachers—based on student learning. Until that data becomes available in every state, Chiefs for Change supports the efforts of the National Council on Teacher Quality to gather research-based data and information about the nation’s colleges of education. This research can provide a valuable tool for improving the quality of education for educators. Schools of education must equip teachers with the ability to effectively prepare students for an increasingly competitive global economy because the true success of these programs is measured by K-12 student achievement—whether students taught by graduates are being equipped for success in college and their careers." 

It’s clear that some in the education field agree with the evaluations that NCTQ and U.S. News are working on, while others strongly disagree. NCTQ and U.S. News will continue to move ahead with teacher preparation program rankings.

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We tend to think of college in terms of a journey. There’s the higher-education path through high school, the various routes to financial aid, and the long road from your first freshman orientation to your degree. And one of the most rewarding parts of this metaphorical journey can also be an actual journey, if you take the opportunity to study abroad.

Spending a summer, a semester, or even a year of your college experience outside the United States can expand your horizons, improve your second-language skills, and foster your learning both inside and outside the classroom. It may seem dauntingly expensive, but studying abroad as a college student is incredibly valuable—and it’s the cheapest chance you’ll ever get to spend a significant chunk of time overseas without actually moving. Furthermore, with a little work, you can find scholarships and financial assistance to defray quite a bit of the cost.

Generally speaking, there are two major ways to move your studies outside the country. You can use a study abroad program affiliated with a college, or you can use an independent program such as IES, SIT, or AIFS. If you go or are planning to go to a college with a study abroad office, I’d recommend making them your first stop for a variety of reasons.

[See more content about studying abroad.]

First and most importantly, going through your own school means your program coordinators will already know your field of study, your transcript information, and your financials, and that will save you time. In addition, you’ll know that the courses on offer are accredited and targeted toward students in your field, and you’ll be able to hear firsthand from program participants. And, of course, you’ll easily be able to find all of the financial aid options open to you.

My alma mater, the University of Minnesota, has a fairly robust and straightforward framework for study abroad scholarships, which lays out amounts, deadlines, and restrictions. Like most schools, the U of M offers general scholarships for study abroad assistance, as well as targeted scholarships for diversity, first-generation and financially needy students; its site also features a study abroad scholarship search to find private-sector and other options.

[More grad students now consider studying abroad.]

The only problem with going through your own college: what if it doesn’t go where you want? In this case, it’s time to expand your horizons. The U of M, for example, offers a number of programs open to non-University students, and there are programs such as Butler University‘s Institute for Study Abroad that coordinate study abroad opportunities around the world for students from all over the country. These are a great alternative, but you’ll have to be especially on the ball in terms of financing; IFSA-Butler, for example, requires your college to process financial aid transfer and payments.

On the plus side, you can apply for both general and destination-specific scholarships that range from $1,000 to $5,000 for semester-long trips to places like Egypt, Australia, Costa Rica, and the British Isles. And the outside scholarships posted on the IFSA-Butler site point to some other excellent opportunities, such as the Boren Scholarships (up to $20,000 per year for lingustic/cultural immersion in underrepresented areas) and the State Department-sponsored Gilman Scholarships (up to $5,000 a year for students receiving Pell Grant assistance).

In addition to these college-managed programs, there are also quite a few independently managed study abroad organizations, and they’re also worth a look. IES Abroad, AIFS Abroad, and SIT Study Abroad all coordinate overseas programs for undergraduate students in the United States, with some variations. SIT, for example, focuses all of their programs on critical global issues, so you select not only a location but also a very specific area of study; IES coordinates not only student programs but also overseas internships.

Each of these organizations has a long history and accredited/transferable credits; they also all offer some significant scholarship aid if you sign up for one of their programs. IES provides need, merit, diversity, and legacy-based scholarships, though this aid is restricted to students attending one of the 180 or so colleges in its Consortium. (If you’re at a public school in the Consortium, you get an automatic $1,500 credit.) AIFS offers a number of general and program-specific scholarships and grants, including up to $1,000 for previous AIFS students returning for another program. (AIFS also partners with DiversityAbroad to offer additional diversity scholarship opportunities.) And SIT features a number of specific scholarships that you can apply for via one common application.

Finally, keep an eye on this list of scholarships from StudyAbroad.com for a frequently updated list of options, including program sponsors and scholarship aid from host areas like Germany and the U.K.

College is indeed a journey, and if your journey takes you outside the United States, make sure you explore all these options.

Matt Konrad has been with Scholarship America since 2005. He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota and a former scholarship recipient.

One fourth of high school students drink soda or pop daily, according to a report released June 17 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the mid 1990s and 2000s, about 75 percent of teens drank a sugary drink daily, according to the Associated Press. In the past few years, schools have removed unhealthy snacks and sodas from vending machines, says Nancy Brener, the report’s author and a CDC researcher. In February 2010, an official in the Obama administration said the president wanted to ban unhealthy drinks in schools under a revised version of No Child Left Behind, the largest and most important federal education law in the country targeted at public schools.

[See why the Secretary of Education wants to revise No Child Left Behind.]

But even though the number of soda drinkers appears to be decreasing, it’s likely many more students are consuming other unhealthy drinks, Brener says.

About two thirds of students are drinking some type of sugar-sweetened beverage on a daily basis, and about one third of students drink a sugar-sweetened beverage at least twice a day. About 16 percent drink a sports drink or other sugary beverage on a daily basis, and drinks such as Gatorade or Sunny Delight are often just as unhealthy as soda, Brener says.

"Initially, people think that 25 percent is pretty good, but when you take all [sugary drinks] into account, at least two thirds of students are drinking these daily, and that’s bad," she says.

Brener says that government- and school-driven attempts to remove sodas from cafeterias are important, but many students are still tempted by soda and other sugary drinks at home. "The schools are an important first step, and we’re excited to see strides there, but there are still other avenues where we need to encourage change."

[Learn how college dining facilities are helping students fight the freshman 15.]

But the report did not return entirely bad news. Almost three quarters of students drink at least one serving of water each day, 42 percent of students drink milk daily, and about 30 percent of students drink at least one serving of 100 percent fruit juice daily. That’s good news, according to Brener.

"We were pleased to see the No. 1 drink consumed on a daily basis was water," she says. "When we went into this study, we didn’t know what we were going to find.

Brener was also surprised by the low number of students who consumed coffee or tea (15 percent) or energy drinks (5 percent) daily.

Energy drinks were "this new big thing we had heard about anecdotally," she says. "The findings don’t mean that no kids are drinking them, but there’s a very small percentage who drink them as a habit."

[Read about a study that suggests energy drinks may hurt kids.]

Male students were more likely to drink sugary drinks than female students, and black students were more likely to drink sugary drinks than white and Hispanic students. That’s not surprising, according to Brener.

"Sports drinks are marketed more towards male and black adolescents," she says. "This data is of great interest to us in trying to find out which groups to target."

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Arizona Man’s Death Linked to European E. coli Outbreak

Health officials have confirmed that the recent death of an Arizona man was caused by the same deadly E. coli strain that’s been wreaking havoc in Europe. The elderly man died last month after visiting Germany, where the outbreak is centered. He is the first of six Americans to die after being infected by the E. coli bacteria strain that has killed 50 people in Europe, the Associated Press reports. Five of the six Americans had traveled to Germany, while another became infected after close contact with a patient in Michigan. Tainted sprout seeds from Egypt were likely the source of the outbreak, according to European officials. The strain is particularly dangerous because it can severely damage the kidneys. This is the first time it has been detected in an outbreak.

Would Your Kitchen Pass a Restaurant Inspection?

If a restaurant inspector barged into your kitchen tomorrow, would it pass the test—or would he threaten to shut you down? Clipboard in hand, he’d check the temperature inside the refrigerator. Warmer than 40 degrees? Violation. Raw meat stored above ready-to-eat food? More points off. Same goes for dirty, cracked eggs, and swollen, leaking, or rusted cans of food. And don’t even think about smoking while you’re cooking.

At least one in seven home kitchens would flunk a restaurant-type health inspection, a study last year by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health suggests, and only three out of five would earn an A or B. Since food consumed at home is the source of roughly half of the nation’s annual 76 million cases of food-borne illnesses, that’s worrisome. "Sometimes we get a little sloppy in our own kitchens," says Joan Salge Blake, a registered dietitian and nutrition professor at Boston University. "Whether you’re bringing raw food into your home to prepare or leftovers from a restaurant, you have to do your part to help reduce the risk of coming down with a food-borne illness."

To protect those who dine out, restaurant inspectors scrutinize every square inch of a commercial kitchen—from floor to ceiling and all surfaces in between. Among other things, they look for workers who are sick or don’t wash their hands, perishables that sit out, dirty equipment, and not cooking, storing, or reheating food at the proper temperature. [Read more: Would Your Kitchen Pass a Restaurant Inspection?]

Food-Borne Illnesses Still a Threat, Despite New Food-Safety Law

Ten years ago, while training to be a family doctor, U.S. News blogger Kenny Lin spent several months admitting sick children to a hospital’s pediatric ward. He almost always treated toddlers for severe dehydration—the result of vomiting and diarrhea. Most of them had picked up a highly contagious bug called rotavirus from contaminated food, feces, or other children. It was easy to spot them, with their sunken eyes and parched skin, Lin reported in February. They looked desperately thirsty, but were too ill to drink. Unfortunately, the only treatment for most food-borne illnesses was—and still is—fluid replacement and time.

Today, the infant rotavirus vaccine has made this type of food poisoning much less common. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still estimates that food-borne illnesses affect 48 million American children and adults each year, leading to 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. In recent years, infectious bacteria such as salmonella have been implicated in outbreaks of food poisoning from contaminated eggs, peanut butter, and raw vegetables. A report in the New England Journal of Medicine revisits the large salmonella outbreak in 2008 that sickened at least 1,500 people in 43 states and Canada. More than 300 people were hospitalized, and two died. Months of meticulous detective work by public health officials from the CDC and state health departments eventually traced the source to tainted jalapeño and serrano peppers grown on a single farm in Mexico. [Read more: Food-Borne Illnesses Still a Threat, Despite New Food-Safety Law.]

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High Salt, Low Potassium Could Spell Early Death

Getting too much salt and too little potassium could lead to an early death, a new federal study suggests. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked the diets of more than 12,000 adults for 15 years, and analyzed their rates of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, and death. They found that a high sodium intake (more than 5,000 milligrams a day) was linked to a higher likelihood of death from any cause during the study period, while a high potassium intake (more than 4,069 mg. daily) was associated with a lower risk of death. People who had the highest sodium-potassium ratios—meaning they consumed more sodium than potassium—were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack than those with the lowest ratios, according to findings published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Potassium helps counter salt’s ability to raise blood pressure, and it plays a role in decreasing bone loss and reducing the risk of developing kidney stones. "From a public health point of view, reduced sodium intake accompanied by increased potassium intake could achieve greater health benefits than restricting sodium alone," according to the study. Potassium-packed foods include broccoli, peas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squashes, bananas, and lima beans.

Best Diets Methodology: How U.S. News Rated Them

Diets come and go, teasing and tempting with visions of that new, hot, slimmed-down body sculpted in a flash from the old, formerly pudgy and mirror-averse You. Eat what you want! Pounds melt away! The reality, as legions of frustrated dieters can affirm, is that dieting is hard and that most diets don’t work. Some, in fact, could put your health at risk. Getting at the facts about diets and dieting has long been grueling enough to burn off a pound or two by itself.

Now, though, Best Diets cuts through the clutter of claims and half-truths to deliver the facts about 20 diets, including many, such as Weight Watchers, that are household names and others, such as the DASH diet, that should be.

A U.S. News team spent six months researching the diets, mining medical journals, government reports, and other sources. An in-depth profile was then drawn up for every diet that explains how it works, whether its claims add up or fall short, and what risks it might pose, along with insights into living on the diet, not just reading about it.

A carefully selected panel of 22 recognized experts in diet and nutrition and specialists in diabetes and heart disease reviewed the U.S. News profiles. Then the experts rated each diet from 1 to 5 in seven categories: short-term weight loss, long-term weight loss, how easy it is to follow, its nutritional completeness, its safety, its ability to prevent or manage diabetes, and its ability to prevent or manage heart disease. U.S. News also asked the panelists to comment on which aspects of each diet that they particularly liked or disliked and to weigh in on what they think people considering the diet should know. [Read more: Best Diets Methodology: How We Rated Them.]

8 Ways to Cut Salt Out of Your Diet

Here are some suggestions for cutting back on salt, provided by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Stephen Havas, vice president for science, quality, and public health at the American Medical Association:

Cook from scratch so you know exactly what’s in your food. You might be surprised at the sodium content included in that prepackaged meal you love: The CSPI has analyzed a whole range of processed foods and has found ready-made roasted carved turkey containing as much as 5,410 milligrams of sodium per serving; half of a ready-made pepperoni pizza might contain as much as 1,350 milligrams.

When you do opt for ready-made pizza or other packaged foods, choose products that say they’re sodium free, very low in sodium, light in sodium, or unsalted or have low or reduced sodium. If you can’t find many, Havas advises asking your local grocery store to start stocking them. Even bread and cereal may surprise you: The CSPI found whole-wheat bread containing anywhere from 150 to 190 milligrams of sodium per slice, depending on the brand; white bread had 115 to 230 milligrams per slice.

Substitute spices, herbs, and salt-free blends for salt in cooking and at the dinner table. [Read more: 8 Ways to Cut Salt Out of Your Diet.]

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High school seniors’ scores on a national history assessment remained flat between 2006 and 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a government organization.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests public and private school students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history. The history test was given in 1994, 2001, and 2006. History scores were lower than any other subject, though NCES Commissioner Jack Buckley cautioned against comparing tests.

"Trying to compare proficiency across subjects is problematic," he said during a conference call with reporters. "Tests are done independently across all subjects. While if you line them all up, history looks lower, it’s not a fair comparison."

NCES divides the 500-point scale into three passing benchmarks—"basic," "proficient," and "advanced." Just 45 percent of 12th graders scored at or above "basic" on the history test. About 10 percent of seniors scored "proficient," and 1 percent are considered to have an "advanced" knowledge of U.S. history. A student is considered to have a "basic" knowledge of U.S. history if he or she scores at least a 294 on the 500-point scale. In 2010, the average score for seniors was 288, which was a slight improvement from 1994 scores, but not significantly different from scores in 2001 or 2006.

Younger students performed better: 73 percent of 4th graders and 69 percent of 8th graders scored at or above the "basic" level.

A racial and ethnic gap remained about the same. On average, white students scored 27 points higher than black students and 20 points higher than Hispanic students. Neither gap was significantly different than previous years. Males, on average, scored four points better than females.

The results aren’t surprising for Cathy Gorn, executive director of the National History Day competition, a kind of science fair for history in which middle and high school students spend months doing original research about a single topic. She says a focus on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) has left history an afterthought in many districts.

[Learn how companies are promoting STEM education.]

"We continue to leave history education behind the other subjects," she says. "It’s a really serious problem in terms of our commitment to teaching all subjects effectively. History is often taught with a boring textbook, where students memorize names and dates."

Students who participate in National History Day outperform those who don’t participate in her program on history, reading, writing, math, and science exams, according to a recent study. Gorn claims students who do original research and learn about some of history’s interesting characters become more excited with the subject.

"We’re not going to see any changes until we’re teaching in a more effective and a more engaging way," she says.

[Learn how states can better evaluate teachers.]

William Gaudelli, an associate professor of social studies and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, says history education needs to be tailored to focus on past events that affect present-day life.

"We need to take issues that are salient today, like the healthcare debate, and try to understand it historically over time," he says. "These ‘Bus Stop Tours’ that we get involved with—teaching everything from native peoples to contemporary America—that’s not possible in 180 days of teaching."

The test measured students’ knowledge in eight different time periods, from the formation of the colonies to the present day. The questions were divided into four historical themes: democracy, culture, technology, and world role.

The report included several sample ideas and questions. At the "basic" level, students were expected to interpret a Cold War political cartoon. At the "proficient" level, students were expected to understand the U.S. entry into World War I. At the "advanced" level, students were expected to evaluate arguments about the use of atomic bombs.

Testing a vast area of knowledge in a one hour exam is one of NAEP’s biggest flaws, according to Gaudelli, who taught high school history for 10 years before he began training teachers. It’s important work, given that less than two thirds of high school history teachers hold a history degree, according to a government report released last week.

Gaudelli says the College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. history exam’s longer length and substantial free response question section may make it a better assessment than the NAEP test, which he calls "broken."

[Learn why more students are taking AP science and math classes.]

The number of students who had access to an AP U.S. history course has risen over the past two decades. Eighty percent of high schoolers had that opportunity in 2009, compared to 51 percent in 1990. Even students who took that course scored low on the NAEP test, though they outperformed students who took normal history courses. The average score for students who had taken or were enrolled in an AP U.S. history course was 304, barely above the "basic" benchmark, while students who hadn’t taken the course scored an average of 284.

Students fare better on the College Board’s AP U.S. history exam—about 53 percent of the more than 380,000 students who took the exam in 2010 received a "passing" score of 3 or higher on a 5-point scale.

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Thrombosed hemorrhoids are , hemorrhoids just where the abnormal arteries are filled with clotted blood. The description of thrombosis is: the formation of a blood clot inside of a blood vessel. This matter decreases blood flow through the blood vessel, thus limiting the supply of oxygen and a number of other needed materials like lactic acid. In the event that a thrombosed hemorrhoid undergoes increased pressure it may perhaps break. If it does, the anus will start bleeding and then the hemorroid is known as a bleeding hemorrhoid.

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