Schools of choice, both private and public, often do a better job of boosting civic values among their students than assigned public schools, according to a new study in the forthcoming issue of Education Next (summer 2007)...

The New York City Education Department has announced plans to create a public school in Brooklyn called the Khalil Gibran International Academy, devoted solely to Arabic culture and language...

As you know, Mark Twain (or Disraeli or someone) once wrote that there are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics...

China’s rise from the nightmarish reign of Mao Zedong to maker-of-all-things WalMart typically rests as lightly as a feather on me...