Altruism
Meets a Weak Job Market
Public-service agencies
like Teach for America are seeing a surge in applications from college graduates
amid a worsening job market. There's another impulse behind this generation's
embrace of nontraditional postgraduate employment: a simple desire to change the
world. Read
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As
Textbooks Go 'Custom,' Students Pay
College students
are encountering another financial hit: Publishers and schools are embracing "custom"
textbooks that can limit the money-saving trade in used books. In a controversial
twist, some academic departments are sharing in the profits from these texts Read
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Prom
Lands in England
Britain, the land of school uniforms and ivy-covered
school halls, is embracing an American invasion: the high-school prom. And British
teens are going for it in a big, gaudy way. Read
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High
School's Worst Year?
The increasing competitiveness
of college admissions—fueled by a demographic surge in the number of teenagers—has
made junior year a crucible of academic pressure for many students aiming for
elite colleges. How 11th grade became such a grind. Read
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Elite
Colleges Reach Deeper Into Wait Lists
Here's a bright spot in an otherwise
brutal college-admissions season: More students are being accepted from wait lists
at elite schools this year because colleges found it harder to predict how many
graduating seniors would join the freshman class. Read
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