The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms...
Whenever I'm asked to speak about polling, someone always asks about the Internet: When will pollsters start conducting their surveys online rather than by telephone?...
As President Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and told the world he doesn't view his Nobel Peace Prize "as a recognition of my own accomplishments," observers in the Bay Area shared his sense that the award is a statement about what could be achieved, rather than what has already been done...
A comprehensive new survey of the world’s Muslim population finds that nearly one in four people on the planet is an adherent of Islam, but the number of Muslims it gives for the United States is significantly smaller than those routinely cited by Islamic organizations – and used by President Obama in his Cairo speech last June...
For a few interesting weeks this summer—catapulted by romantic melodramas with a wide cast of characters, including Republican politicians and popular reality-show parents Jon and Kate—the question of opposite-sex marriage and its own meaning momentarily took center stage...
ALMOST every time I interview Mayor Nutter on the issues du jour on my radio program, we swerve into an update on his vision of a Philadelphia with a greatly increased college-educated population...
