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Amid economic downturn, recent grads turn to national service

Kelley Mulfinger thought she would be making a six-figure salary in marketing by her second year out of school. Instead, the University of Virginia alum is teaching a classroom of first-graders how to spell words like "care."

Study: Achievement gap narrows between black, white students

Math and reading scores for fourth- and eighth-graders in public schools improved nationwide, but African-American students continued to lag behind their white classmates, a new federal study found.

Fortune: Schooling corporate giants on recruiting

Sitting in a lunchroom at Columbia University with the school's star students - the senior class president, the student council VP, the premed triple major and 15 other superachievers - Wendy Kopp ...

Fortune: A powerful force

Each year in the Fall, FORTUNE gathers female leaders from business, government, academia, and the arts for a conference called the Most Powerful Women Summit. It's a place to hash out issues, of c...

Fortune: Grads aren't seeing green The class of '03 is facing the worst job market in a decade.

When 18-year-olds entered college four years ago, dot-com mania was at its height, the Dow was at 11,000, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was the top show on TV. Companies desperate to fill their...

Fortune: SENIOR PROJECT MAKES GOOD

Just over a year ago, Wendy Kopp, 23, had a breakthrough idea for her senior public policy thesis at Princeton. Why not create a program that took graduates from top colleges who wanted to teach bu...

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