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Meet Arne Duncan
A new year, a new president, a new education secretary - and a new opportunity to avoid the education bureaucracy's same old failures. John R. LaPlante explains.
A Different Kind of Hero, A Different Kind of Weapon
'In Kansas, nearly six out of 10 eighth-grade students have substandard math skills, nearly half are not good readers, and four students out of 10 fail to graduate from high school.' Is that failure? Sarah McIntosh does the math.
A real horror story
Usually, the scary part is when the monster jumps out. As Matthew Hisrich explains, the monster in 'I.O.U.S.A.' is in plain sight. Maybe it's time to feel a little fear.
What would Andrew Jackson have done?
What the financial institutions did was frightening. What the Congress and the President have done may be even worse. But now that the monster's loose, Maria Holiday argues, we'd better take a moment to try to understand just how bad this all is.
The umpires strike out
What kind of a contest puts the opposing teams in the bleachers and asks the refs to duke it out on the field? It's the game being played over climate change and the environment. Forrest Knox calls the play-by-play.
