This week's column about a juicy tax break for college costs, comes to me via my intern, Geron Jordan. That's a big step up from last week's which came from con artists in the form of a scam letter in the mail! Gerron, a college student himself, alerted me to something called the American Tax Opportunity Credit. I had never heard of it—hey, my daughter's only 5—and was immediately intrigued. You will be too.

A group of students was posing for a photo in Costa Rica when a sloth came slinking in, front and center. The students were traveling with International Student Volunteers, an organization of volunteers from around the world, cutting paths through thick forest when they stopped...

Students in Quebec, Canada, are to vote on a new plan aimed at ending a 12-week strike prompted by proposal to raise university tuition fees.