In Don Marquis' classic satirical book, "Archy and Mehitabel," Mehitabel the alley cat asks plaintively, "What have I done to deserve all these kittens...
Standard and Poor's has just done the U.S. a big favor by jolting many in Washington and the mainstream media out of denial that government deficit-spending can continue in the same trajectory...
Aside from such pittances as America’s credit rating being lowered, new doubts about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and what surprises Monday’s markets would bring, the weekend’s other news came out of the Lone Star State, where Texas Gov. Rick Perry hosted “The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis...
Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has permitted a strikingly similar suit to go forward as well...
Arnius Duncanus is at it again. Unmoved by pleas that he “first do no harm” when it comes to promising reforms like the Common Core State Standards Initiative, he seems compelled to attach mandates to his forthcoming NCLB waivers that will require adoption of the Common Core standards...
Does the Obama Administration want to create a national education policy akin to France's Ministry of Education? According to Bill Evers, Former US Assistant Secretary of Education and current Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, that is exactly what they are attempting to do...
We write frequently about the charter-school wars in New York City because the battle touches so many aspects of the effort to give children from poor families the education necessary to escape their circumstances.
