Patrick James
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
For geography buffs and real estate sharks, a new frontier: Lunar real estate.In the interest of funding privatized exploration, settlement and...
Who knew an AP physics project about some obscure cartoon could be so damn entertaining?
While we wait for Obama's game-changing text, CNN educates us with a list of the best and worst vice president picks since Harry Truman's right...
A conversation with the Education Trust's Kati Haycock on ensuring that more students become college- and career-ready.
Last month, when the Los Angeles Times began revealing its value-added teacher effectiveness data—which culminated in ratings of 6,000 third- to...
As a journalist who covers human rights, I spend a lot of time absorbing trauma. This is one thing that helped me deal.
During the campaign, President Obama argued that his election would help restore the image the rest of the world has of United States. In...
Congress is trying to wrap up health-care reform this week. One of the major issues in the bill has been whether it would provide government...
The AP has a disconcerting story that illustrates just how poorly prepared public school students are for college. According to Department of...
To launch our newest project, Design a School Garden with LAUSD (and We'll Build It!), we're publishing a series of pieces from stakeholders who...
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Yeah, I know. I'm sick of the first-100-days stories, too, but if we can all take off our media-savvy hats for a moment and put one the ones where...
A recent report issued by New Scientist has shown a fascinating discrepancy between consumer perception of the "greenness" of various companies...
Creating connections among young people, educators, and communities is the life’s work of National Youth Leadership Council founder, president...
Need proof that the achievement gap is alive and well in California? Record numbers of minority students are dropping out of high school.
The United States is often touted as the Land of the Free. However, its overcrowded prisons and jails paint a very different picture.
A prize winning book links drops in Iran's fertility with social and economic factors.
The U.S. government has poured $100 billion of stimulus money into the Education Department, but does paying more lead to better results? Our...
If Education Secretary Arne Duncan was looking for an "I told you so" moment to go along with his crusade to get the NCAA to bring up its...
Much like the achievement gap in K-12 schooling, higher education is plagued by its own gap—with respect to minority graduation rates....
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