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CLASSROOM EDITION

• Discount U.

  Responding to softening demand for a four-year college education, more schools are reining in tuition increases and giving out larger scholarships to attract students.

• Watching You

  For most Americans today, surveillance of our everyday activities is a fact of life.

• The Information Drive-Through

  Despite the rapid spread devices to access the Web, a digital divide persists between those who have access to high-speed Internet at home and those who don't. That divide is becoming a bigger problem now that a fast Internet connection has become an essential tool for completing many assignments at public schools.

• Student Loans: The Next Financial Crisis?

  Federal lending programs designed to make college education available to everyone are creating a pile of debt so large, it is fueling worries that it has become too easy to borrow too much.

• The Good Life—in College

  Private developers are swooping into college towns, building a new crop of dorms that pamper students with luxury amenities like heated swimming pools, stainless-steel kitchens and private bathrooms.

• Teens and Concussions

• After Sandy, Tough Questions

• The Second-Term Curse

• What Is Made in the USA?

• 'The War Is All Around You'

• Ice Breaker: War Is About People

• On the Hook