Reactions to the death of Moammar Gadhafi continue to pour in from Libya and across the U.S. Mohamed Gibril is a student at Michigan State University. He and other Libyan students were sent to the U.S. to study under a Libyan government program for diplomatic training before the uprising against the Gadhafi regime. Since then his visa has run out and he's been unable to return safely. He and his fellow students are currently in limbo due to the turmoil in their country. Assia Bashir Amry is the daughter of exiled Libyan revolutionary ElHajj Sabr, a revolutionary who did not live to see Gadhafi's ouster. She talks about what feelings Gadhafi's death has brought up for her.

Last week, The Takeaway reported on an Alabama immigration law that is considered on of the toughest in the nation. A federal judge upheld the law in a challenge by the Justice Department. Among its provisions, the law requires Alabama's public schools to check the legal documentation of its students. Since the law went into effect on Thursday, over 200 Latino students went missing from schools in Huntsville. The law does not give schools the right to turn away children. Schools are only required to report to the state if a child cannot produce legal documentation.

Yesterday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced a major override of the No Child Left Behind accountability law for schools. Duncan's proposal will mean that states can apply to bypass performance requirements in the law. One of those requirements is that 100 percent students be proficient in reading and math by 2014. Arne Duncan talks about about the overhaul in the law and how it will affect students and schools. (Transcript available after the jump.)

Ever wonder how a story on The Takeaway evolves? Our stories can start with everything from a tweet to a listener response phoned in during the morning's show, and move forward over the next hours as we interact with guests, put together radio segments, and blog on the subject at hand. This week, one of our stories began with a paper about student performance being impacted by unemployment rates. In the visual element below, you can see first hand how the story progressed, from our initial tweet and listener responses to a blog from Takeaway contributor Beth Kobliner. 

Every year, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards honor the best high school and middle school students in a variety of categories, including painting, journalism and fiction. Past winners include leaders and luminaries in their respective fields, including Joyce Carol Oates, Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. Some 185,000 pieces of art and writing submitted this year, and eighteen-year-old Haris Durrani was one of seven high school seniors to win a gold medal for a portfolio of writing, out of 3,000 portfolio entries.

Half a century ago, as Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington and Freedom Riders tested the desegregation of interstate buses, students at a Detroit high school stood up for their rights, and won. Finding the facilities and education at their school inferior to what was available at predominately white schools, they staged a walk-out, and refused to come back to their school until their demands were met. A new play called “Northern Lights 1966” tells their story. Starring a cast of high school students, it’s being staged by Detroit’s Mosaic Youth Theatre through this weekend.

• Business Takeout: Louise Story, finance reporter for our partner, The New York Times, explains why Chrysler is uneasy with government plans to force auto companies into arbitration with former car dealers.
• Sports Takeout: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has the results of last night's football (the Colts squeaked out a victory over the Jaguars to keep their perfect record) and a look ahead to the weekend in sports.
  
• Listener Takeout: We hear from you about student loans and the fine print that accompanies them.
  

All week we've been following the ways in which our lives have become inundated with fine print. For the fourth segment in our series, Takeaway contributor Beth Kobliner, author of "Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties," looks at why more people are defaulting on student loans than ever before and how you can avoid being buried by the fine print.

Click through to read Beth's five points to consider when applying for (or paying down) your student loans.

It's easy to see that things aren't going well for our economy: The Consumer Price Index is down, foreclosure rates are through the roof following the historic burst of the housing bubble, and more and more of the American workforce finds itself un- or under-employed. With all of these negative economic indicators, you wouldn't think it's a time for anyone selling anything to raise prices. Yet, across the country, public and private colleges have been raising their tuitions all year. In a report released yesterday by the College Board, four-year public college tuitions increased at an average of 6.5 percent from just one year ago. 

For a look behind the numbers, and for the long-term effects of high-cost higher education, we speak to Patrick Callan, president of the National Center for Policy and Higher Education.

Authorities found what they believe to be the body of 24-year-old Yale student Annie Le, in an ongoing investigation of her disappearance. Ms. Le, a pharmacology student, went missing on Tuesday and was last seen in the research lab where she worked.

Here to tell us more about the details, and how Yale students are reacting as they head to class this morning, we talk to Thomas Kaplan, editor of the Yale Daily News.

Demonstrators are protesting in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, where dozens of assaults against Indian students have been reported in the past year. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says any racist attacks are “deplorable.” Gautam Gupta, a student who was attacked, says the authorities have been too slow to respond, so he’s set up the Federation of Indian Students of Australia to protect Indian students. He joins The Takeaway from Melbourne to talk about the rise in ethnic tensions.

Watch footage from the protests below.

In his new book Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen, Mark Rudd looks back at his time as a founding member of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground. He joins John to share his assessment of a tremendously turbulent period in American history and examine the legacy of the student movement.

Here's Mark Rudd in 1969:



Here's the trailer for the 2002 documentary The Weather Underground: