In districts facing budget cuts, online advanced-placement courses are becoming a popular option for students and parents looking to gain an edge in the college-admissions race and trim tuition costs.
The jobless rate across the U.S. fell to 8.8% in March, and a Tuesday report from the Labor Department shows improvement has become more widespread.
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U.S. multinational corporations, the big brand-name companies that employ a fifth of all American workers, have been hiring abroad while cutting back at home, sharpening the debate over globalization's effect on the U.S. economy.
States have come up with a lot of ideas for reducing the nation's high unemployment rate, but Florida labor officials have come up with an unique approach to reduce the state's 11.1% rate.
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More U.S. corporate directors are getting ready to face re-election votes every year by shareholders.
When is the right time to ask a prospective employer to work from home during the interview, or after you have a job offer in hand? And how should you pitch the idea?
Chief executives have to juggle multiple priorities, but according to a recent study, they tend to rank some higher than others.
The intense competition for mobile engineers is emerging as a key bottleneck as companies scramble to capitalize on the fast growth of smartphones and other mobile devices.
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Despite a strong cultural bias against them, introverted leaders can make great bosses especially in unpredictable environments.
Interior designers may seem to inhabit a genial world of pastel palettes and floral motifs. But right now in Florida, their industry is locked in an indecorous pillow fight over who has the right to design.
Music journalism needs more people to be hybrids of the two-bloggers with journalistic instincts to do more thorough work, and journalists with their ears to the ground to take more risks with their reporting.
John Delaney, dean of the University of Pittsburgh's business school, is scrambling to address changes in the wake of proposed steep cuts to Pennsylvania's higher-education budget.
Most business schools now offer some sort of global component in their curriculum to prepare their students for work overseas—and to raise the schools' international profile.
Corporate hiring managers are increasingly complaining that M.B.A. grads have terrible writing skills, and more b-schools are trying to address the problem.
To make one hire, recruiters wade through more than six times as many applications from job boards than they do from their own websites.
Facebook is trying to find its way in Washington, where it has only a fledgling lobbying operation, even though it finds its privacy policies under scrutiny and is trying to navigate expansion into China.
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For decades, mining on the moon and colonizing Mars have been the stuff of sci-fi dreams. Now both are being taken seriously by Columbia University—and NASA.
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The AP has tapped former ABC News president David Westin to head its News Licensing Group, an entity that aims to help news organizations get paid for material that is republished online.
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Author Richard Ford explains his complicated relationship with the term "work."
Pitching in at a charity or non-profit can bolster a resume, but only under the right circumstances.
Many younger workers are unprepared for what they hear in their first performance review. The key is to have a game plan for how you'll present your accomplishments and goals and how you'll respond to any critiques.
Teenage entrepreneurs are doing a surprisingly professional job of turning traditional teen jobs into profit centers.
Working the night shift is a trend that has most likely increased during the recession. That's due, in part, to globalization and the need to work in different time zones and because many companies have opted to add more shifts over hiring more staff or buying new equipment.
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