Maryland’s demanding new Kindergarten Readiness Assessment was administered statewide for the first time this year. Its results are revealing and sobering, to put it mildly.
Northern and central Italy are not on the southern Mediterranean. But somehow thousands of refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are everywhere here -- as is true of much of the European Union.
The latest Greek debt "crisis" poses an interesting puzzle. (Quotes because it's hard to call something that's been going on this long a "crisis.") Greece needs to come up with $300 million euros by Friday to pay off the IMF. And the most likely source of this money is... the IMF.
The first fifteen years of this century have been a time of astonishing advances in communications and information technology, including digitalization, mass-accessible video platforms, smart phones, social media, billions of people gaining internet access, and much else.
Tim Smeeding knows more than virtually anyone about inequality and poverty in the United States and other rich nations. I asked him what he recommends to reduce income inequality.
Let's stop the charade about the minimum wage. It is not an effective anti-poverty policy tool. In fact, it could actually be more harmful than inaction.
I’m going to offer my online course “Asset Pricing” over the summer. The intent is a “summer school” for PhD students, either incoming or between the first year of foundation courses and the second year of specialized finance courses.
The uproar over the recent failure of the Senate to renew several key provisions of the Patriot Act highlights the love/hate relationship that Americans have with their intelligence agencies. During periods of heightened international tension, Americans depend on their intelligence agencies to provide accurate forecasting and early warning of pending threats to national security.
Hoover Institution, The Johnson Center, Washington, DC
The Hoover Institution invites you to a book reception and panel discussion focusing on Colin Dueck's newest book: The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today
Hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson is donating $400 million to Harvard University, the school said Wednesday, the largest gift in its 379-year history and among the biggest ever to a U.S. university.
President Ma Ying-jeou said a democratized China would let people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait think on an equal basis as a prelude to any integration.
The Nevada law, signed by the governor Tuesday, allows virtually all parents of K-12 students to opt out of public school but use their children’s state education dollars for a customized education.
Republicans on the left coast are poised to field a pro-abortion, same-sex marriage supporting Senate candidate, testing the theory that they might be relevant in the land of Reagan if only they'd concede defeat on social issues.
