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            <title><![CDATA[Is This the Worst Year to Graduate College Ever?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With laid-off investment bankers snapping up jobs in retail and MBAs barely worth the paper they're printed on, college seniors are approaching graduation day with a mixture of dread and resignation.
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            <title><![CDATA[If Only Wal-Mart Ran My College]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Universities with shrinking endowments need to get creative about raising revenue: put the rare-book collections on eBay and ask the philosophy professors how they'd run the budget.
In a recent email sent to me and every other student and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Colleges Are Just Not That Into You]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The charade in which schools solicit more applications than they need-just to improve their selectivity ratings-isn't just underhanded, it's cruel.
If a high school student performs well on the PSAT-or even if he...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dropout Epidemic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Offering admission and financing to virtually every student who wants to enroll in college has resulted in a dropout rate of nearly 50% -- and an incredible amount of money down the drain.
My high school was a small charter school that harbored the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Giving Money to Your Alma Mater is Immoral]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ By subsidizing the irresponsible financial decisions of your old school, you're helping it keep tuition costs out of reach for all but the richest of students.
If it hasn't come already, it will arrive any day now, in a perfectly innocent-looking...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Recession Is Just What Teens Need]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ My generation, long spoiled, is finally learning to pinch pennies. And that might just be the economy's best hope.
One of my favorite stores is Plato's Closet, a thrift shop chain that offers gently used name-brand apparel at deep discounts. On...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A College Sophomore Solves the Financial Crisis]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Maybe one reason we're in this financial mess is because we force our high school students to learn Latin but not how to properly use a credit card.
With the economy dominating the headlines, few Americans have the background to understand what...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Obama's College Plan Hurts My Generation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's ideas do nothing to confront the real problem-that the cost of college is growing far too fast.
Senator Barack Obama devoted part of the Saturday before Election Day to an interview with MTV where he discussed one of the most important...]]></description>
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