When is a campaign book better than usual? It's better when it transcends simply attempting to get the author elected and provides a window on character development and insights into social problems...

Most state standards remain far below international level, with Tennessee, a Race to the Top Winner, at the very bottom...

One of the two states chosen by Education Secretary Arne Duncan as a winner in the first round of the $4 billion Race to the Top competition has academic standards that earned the grade of ‘F’ in a new study by Harvard University researchers, while the other state got a ‘C minus...'

A program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, will bring together 25 of the country’s best and brightest students in August in an effort to train the next generation of leaders in the principles of liberal democracy and the ideas that constitute the foundation of the state...