The most distinctive thing about Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later, a documentary that debuted Tuesday night on HBO, is that it actually adds something valuable to the discussion about race and education...
Alan Greenspan, the anti-war U.S. left, virtually the entire Arab world, and Osama bin Laden have something in common: they think the war in Iraq is mainly about oil...
Differences between state tests and a national benchmark test whose results were released yesterday are ramping up calls for an independent audit of the New York State test...
I’ve been watching the Ken Burns’ film each night, and generally think, as a sociological exploration of race, class, and gender issues during wartime, it is excellent...
You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter...
American Power after the Berlin Wall by Thomas Henriksen, a Hoover Institution senior fellow, examines for the first time, in a single volume, U.S. foreign policy from 1989 to the present through the prism of America’s interventions around the world...
The third time proved the charm for the New York City school system, which last week won the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education for the progress of its improvement efforts after being a finalist the past two years...
A growing chorus of critics is weighing in, wondering if the Federal Reserve has made a big mistake in cutting interest rates for the first time in four years...
