WSJ Classroom Edition

The site fills an important need on campus, but it’s no substitute for friendship

Some wonder how much work hyper-socializing students or employees can really accomplish if they are holding multiple conversations with friends via text-messaging, or are obsessively checking Facebook.

How heavily should you weigh a college’s prestige? Should you take the size of its student body into account? What about cost? Find out what matters—and what doesn’t—as you go through yourcollege search. More...

Five tips for finding a college that's right for you.

Portland, Ore., makes skateboarders feel at home.

New laws and technologies aim to stop a dangerous habit: texting while driving.

Across the country,large regional shopping malls are emptying out.

College isn't the way it looks on TV. In fact, in some ways, it's even better. Abby McCartney explains.

Jonathan Bartolozzi started a career in international aid work as a Peace Corps volunteer after college. Now 28 years old, he runs the Afghanistan relief efforts for Umcor, the humanitarian aid organization of the United Methodist Church.

Facing shrunken savings and borrowing options, parents and students are making some tough trade-offs in choosing and paying for college. Some of them are applying a strict cost-benefit analysis and questioning the true value of a pricey undergraduate degree. ...

Disney tries its magic to make Wizards of Waverly Place star Selena Gomez big, and to keep her 17

All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. But some people just won't shut up online—while others reveal far too much. As one exasperated user puts it, Why is your life so frickin' important and entertaining that we need to know?

Marketers for the film I Love You, Beth Cooper used a real-life graduation speech as a publicity ploy. But the film has been a bomb in an otherwise buoyant summer movie season.