
Rather instantaneously, the world seems to have again shifted its focus.
Since Christmas Day, when 23-year-old Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab...

I generally think of homeschoolers as a fringe group in American education. I still sort of do.
But in the past decade their numbers have more...

Is Obama's incentive-based education plan a sprint or a jog?
If we put the Obama Administration's Race to the Top grant in running terms, is it...

Hans Rosling, the charming Swedish professor behind the knowledge onslaught called Gapminder, explains where we're all going with a few Lego...

After some criticism about their plans for the Rise to the Top program of grants to state education programs, the Obama administration has changed...

According to poll data from Vanity Fair (helpfully graphed by Ezra Klein), two thirds of Americans report they couldn't explain what "the public...

Of all the awfulness of war, the coming home part can be worse.
Over the weekend, The New York Times featured an important story about the...

According to Rachel Maddow, on the list of things we have learned, not freezing government spending while a bad economy is just starting to...

Meg Whitman's first television ad in the 2010 California gubernatorial race, "Confidence," promises to fix schools and cut taxes, just not in that...

Last night, President Obama received one of his loudest ovations when he said that "the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class...

Big Think, the online think tank whose mission is to deliver progressive insights from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, had a chance to...

In the run up to tomorrow night's State of the Union address, the Obama veneer appears to be losing its luster.
Combined with last night's...

Earlier today, Morning Joe featured a clip from Parks and Recreation, where kids in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana are "beefy, husky, big...

Between Sarah Palin, whose talk of revolution packed a Tennessee ballroom on Saturday night, and Sunday's onslaught of all things Doritos and...

The Economist has a nifty infographic, which compares the content of President Obama's inaugural address with Wednesday night's State of the...

Our friends over at The White House blog have taken to asking questions via Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. And guess who they credit with that...

In February, the U.S. government passed the $787 billion Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus package, in an effort to breathe new life...

As states compete for $4 billion in federal Race to the Top dollars—dollars which will be awarded not only for clever reforms in the future but...

Morning Roundup:
From the Los Angeles Times: Governor's Call For Giving Colleges Priority Over Prisons Faces Hard Political Tests
Arnold...

Morning Roundup:
From The Los Angeles Times: Assembly OKs Bills to Change California Schools
Parents would be given more power to transfer...