Just before Christmas, the Seattle Times provided coverage of the Gates Foundation's report about their decade's worth of progress...

It's a complicated holiday as we celebrate it in this country, a horrendous mash-up of religion, commercialism, and bits and pieces of l...

In today's Slate, Alison Griswold addresses the issue of cranky travelers and the ever-shrinking world of air travel amenities , and in ...

The return of a GOP majority to DC has renewed talk of the Great White Whale of education reform-- completing the long-overdue rewrite of E...

From my spiritual brother over at Curmudgeon Central comes an instructive tale from East Rockaway about what can happen when testing drives ...

I've been looking at the application materials for the Department of Education's teacher ambassadorship. After all, I am always up t...

Benchmark is originally a surveying term. Benchmarks are slots cut into the side of stone (read "permanent") structures into which...