Hurley's World

Treating your career development education as if it were part of a stock portfolio can help you increase the return on your investment.

Job hunters must learn to navigate the social protocol of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking sites.

Who are trapped more than 2,000 feet below the earth in Chile?

The Obama administration will give New Orleans $1.8 billion in a lump-sum reimbursement for schools that were damaged or destroyed in the flooding after Hurricane Katrina.

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Faced with parents who have a hard time saying goodbye to their freshmen, colleges formalize the split.

Flavored milk has emerged as both villain and victim in a cafeteria drama that pits the dairy industry, administrators and parents against one another.

Waldorf? So last semester. A writer learns that home schooling is suddenly chic.

Charts, graphs, interactive maps and other visualizations that can help students understand key issues and topics in health and science.

Fill in the blanks in this article about a hotel in Arizona many swear is haunted. Use your own words and phrases, or choose from a list of words that were removed.

Student Opinion | Two writers claim that few of us today spend enough time examining our "mental characters" in order to become better people. Do you agree? What role does reflection of this kind play in your life?

What was the "Green Book" and what can it tell historians about life for African-Americans from the 1930's through the passage of the Civil Rights Act?

Queens College’s only dorm houses 500 students out of 20,000, and contains full kitchens, cable television, wireless Internet access and private bathrooms.

Kaplan University had signed an agreement with California community colleges for students shut out of classes at their own campus to take an online version at Kaplan.

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Charts, interactive maps and other visualizations that can help students understand key issues and topics in current events and politics, history and economics.

A mother ponders her daughter's future departure for college.

No wonder parents might feel compelled to stick around a few days and make sure they're getting their money's worth.