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  1. Senate vet leaders join in-state tuition push

  1. Bill proposes options to repay GI Bill overpayments

    Student veterans who were overpaid on their GI Bill benefits would get more time to repay the money under a bill introduced Monday by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

  2. Best for Vets: Franchises 2013

    After months or years of taking orders from guys with more stripes on their uniforms, how would you like to be your own boss on the civilian side?

  1. Lawmakers want transition workshops to add GI Bill training

  2. More online classes open up for aviation students

  3. Free degrees — and they're legit

  4. Trident reaffirms its accreditation

  5. More troops and families using Post-9/11 GI Bill April 15, 2013

  6. Marine Corps reopens tuition assistance April 12, 2013

  7. In-state tuition for GI Bill sparks debate April 11, 2013

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  1. Senators to DoD: Where’s the tuition assistance?

    The two senators who led the charge to save tuition assistance from budget cuts want to know what’s taking the Defense Department so long to restart the benefits pipeline.

    • Apr. 4, 2013

  2. DoDEA may have to fit furloughs into just 2 months

    Defense officials have reduced the number of required furlough days for civilian employees, but military school officials are now faced with the possibility of having to squeeze the furloughs into an even shorter time frame.

    • Apr. 4, 2013

  3. Tuition aid will return, but questions remain

    Tuition assistance has been rescued by Congress after thousands of troops complained when most of the services suspended the popular education benefit as a cost-cutting move.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    GI Bill in uniform: Use it and lose it

    Tuition assistance may have been revived — at least for this fiscal year — but if the program comes into the budget-cutting crosshairs again, you may want to think twice before using your GI Bill benefits as a replacement, at least while you’re still on active duty.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
    • EDUCATION /

    College Scorecard gathers data at single site

    Families hunting for colleges now can find such financial information as cost, average student debt and loan default rates of individual institutions at a single federal website.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
    • EDUCATION /

    OCS will test your mettle like never before

    Officer Candidate School will turn you into leadership material, but you’ll have to work for it.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
    • EDUCATION /

    Your 5-step application checklist

    Colleges have done a lot to simplify the application process thanks to the Internet. In some cases, one application works for a number of schools. But you still should approach the applications carefully to be sure you’ve done everything a school has asked.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
    • EDUCATION /

    Save on college application fees

    Application rates to U.S. colleges and universities are soaring. Part of the reason? Panic.

    • Mar. 25, 2013

  9. Editorial: Stretch TA funding

    Congress acted quickly last week to restore tuition assistance funding after the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force abruptly suspended the program.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
    • EDUCATION /

    Colleges team up for quick training in shale

    One student was a homeless man with welding experience who slept in a tent throughout training. Two were brothers from Indiana who drove to Pennsylvania and stayed in a motel room for four weeks. Another was a veteran just home from being stationed in Korea.

    • Mar. 25, 2013

  11. Editorial: Mending tuition assistance

    When the services suddenly announced they were pulling way back on tuition assistance for all troops, tens of thousands were left wondering how they would fulfill their educational ambitions — or even whether they could complete the current semester.

    • Mar. 18, 2013

  12. White House forced to consider reinstating TA

    The White House will have to consider reinstating tuition assistance for troops after a petition on its official website garnered more than 100,000 signatures.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
    • EDUCATION /

    Best for Vets: Business Schools 2013 methodology

    Some 100 colleges and universities responded to our first-ever survey of business schools. Only institutions that said they offer graduate-level business degrees, and that participated in our rigorous Best for Vets: Colleges survey, the results of which published in November, were considered in this review.

    • Mar. 11, 2013

  14. Best for Vets: Business Schools 2013

    If you can lead troops into battle, can you also lead a Fortune 500 company to a better third-quarter earnings report?

    • Mar. 11, 2013

  15. Proposal would give in-state tuition to GI Bill vets

    A powerful lawmaker could ease the way for student veterans using the Post-9/11 GI Bill to avoid paying out-of-state tuition at public schools.

    • Jan. 25, 2013

  16. Take the anxiety out of applying to college

    Navy veteran Tim Martin's decision to apply to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2007 filled him with apprehension. A previous college attempt years before had not gone well for the former aviation electrician's mate second class.

    • Jan. 25, 2013

  17. Get an edge in interviews at selective schools

    The good news: The Post-9/11 GI Bill has put many selective schools within financial reach for veterans. The bad news: Selective schools are flooded with applicants and acceptance rates are slipping downward.

    • Jan. 25, 2013

  18. Beef up your education with language training

    Maybe you've heard this one before: If someone who speaks three languages is called trilingual and someone who speaks two languages is called bilingual, what do you call someone who speaks one language? An American.

    • Jan. 25, 2013

  19. 6 new majors: Game design, motor sports & more

    Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits about to be burning a hole in your pocket — but you can't decide where to go to school or even what you want to major in? Maybe news of these new degree programs will provide the right spark of inspiration.

    • Jan. 25, 2013

  20. Transfer smart

    When former Navy Reserve Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Russo was ready to go for his bachelor's degree at American Military University after earning an associate degree at Ashworth College, the intelligence studies graduate worked hard to ensure his transfer to a new school was a seamless one.

    • Jan. 25, 2013
  21. New recruits at Marine Corps Recruit depots Parris Island, S.C., and San Diego will now get an initial brief on the GI Bill on the day they arrive. When they get to their company on the second day of training, they'll get a follow-on brief and make a decision about whether to opt in to the Montgomery GI Bill. Lance Cpl. Aneshea Yee / Marine Corps

    Recruit depots sort GI Bill differences

    MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Drill instructors are changing the way they inform recruits about their GI Bill options to ensure all prospective Marines are given the same brief and the same amount of time to consider their choice for education benefits.

    • Jan. 14, 2013

  22. This year's best college essays

    For the third year, we asked readers to send us the essays they wrote for admission to college. On the line: a Dell "Switch" laptop from Purchasing Power. Here's the winning essay by Army veteran Anthony Timanus along with that of Navy daughter Jaclyn Blickley, who came in a close second.

    • Dec. 21, 2012

  23. Council to evaluate free online courses

    The nonprofit American Council on Education, representing most of the nation's college and university presidents, is preparing to weigh in on massive open online courses — MOOCs — which have been around for barely a year but have taken higher education by storm.

    • Dec. 21, 2012

  24. College classes just for vets: Do they help?

    The students in the Saturday morning class trickle in and, as they introduce themselves around a table, reveal far more intimate biographies than just name and hometown. One confesses to demons he struggles to control. Another says he's here to find a community. "Forgive me," an Iraq war veteran begins haltingly. "I have to use notes. I have a brain injury."

    • Dec. 21, 2012

  25. Touro back in military market

    A former military education powerhouse is trying to re-establish itself after being out of the market for years.

    • Dec. 21, 2012

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