Diane Ravitch, the education historian who built her intellectual reputation battling progressive educators and served in the first Bush administration’s Education Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow-motion about-face on almost every stand she once took on American schooling. . . .

Once again, facts are getting in the way of those who would question the success of charter schools. . . .

Beyond the question of what age and experience have done for his growth as a politician, Brown — a master at the art of reinvention — remarkably could be seen as an unknown quantity as he prepares to enter California's gubernatorial race. . . .

It's axiomatic: Discrimination accounts for racial inequality in our society, and government action is needed to fix this injustice. . . .