I divide my academic life between two universities, Oxford and Stanford...

It is 8:45 on a raw spring morning in a hardscrabble section of the Bronx...

On the Becker-Posner Blog, Judge Richard Posner, who sits on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and continues to teach at the University of Chicago Law School and Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who also teaches at the University of Chicago routinely take a dueling-banjos approach to the most interesting and often controversial ideas of the day in paired blog posts...

School-based reward programs that offer students such incentives as cash, free MP3 players, or other gifts appear to produce improved reading achievement across grade levels, preliminary findings from an ongoing research project suggest...