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Closing education achievement gap: blue-ribbon panel offers blueprint
Better teacher training, accessible early-childhood education, and school-finance reform are key components to closing the achievement gap between minority and white students, says a report.
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Terrorism & Security Two years later, Egyptians' euphoria over Mubarak's fall a distant memory (+video)
Some protesters demanded President Morsi's ouster as they clashed with police on the anniversary of Mubarak's fall. Deepening economic woes and violence have marred Morsi's short tenure.
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Where did the mammoth US budget deficits come from?
Let's go back about a decade, when budget surpluses were predicted for the foreseeable future. Somehow, the math went terribly wrong, by trillions of dollars. Here's an accounting of what happened.
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In Chicago strike, teachers draw a line on education reform (+video)
A key question in Chicago's first teacher strike in a generation is whether teachers will accept new rules on education reform issues ranging from teacher evaluations to seniority.
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Mitt Romney stumbles out of the gate on world trip. Will US voters care? (+video)
Mitt Romney is off to a rocky start on a trip meant to showcase his abilities as a statesman. First was an aide's 'Anglo-Saxon' comment, then the candidate cast doubt on Olympics preparations.
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Repealing Obama health-care law will be difficult, slow
Any realistic effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is sure to get jumbled together with lots of other issues, including Medicare, taxes, food stamps and defense spending.
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Obama immigration order: Does 'audacity of hope' mean unchecked presidential power?
President Obama’s order deferring deportation of up to 800,000 young illegal immigrants shows a president dealing with a recalcitrant Congress by ignoring it. Is he reshaping the power of the presidency?
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Herman Cain's other problem: African-Americans
Though his campaign caught fire for a time, many black voters did not embrace Herman Cain because he rejects institutional racism as a major issue. But his candidacy has exposed rifts in the black community.
11/17/2011 10:42 am -
Tax VOX Everything you need to know about Perry's flat tax
A flat tax would be much more regressive than the current income tax. As a result, poor people will pay a larger share of their income than they do at present.
10/24/2011 09:00 pm -
Will striking Tacoma teachers be ordered back to work?
At issue in Tacoma: class sizes, potential salary cuts, and – most important to some – the district’s desire to transfer teachers between schools based on criteria other than seniority.
09/14/2011 06:03 pm -
Response to 'credible threat' shows how much has changed since 9/11
Al Qaeda may have been degraded since 2001. But the threat since 9/11 has become more complicated, decentralized and elusive with franchises, affiliates, and homegrown terrorists.
09/09/2011 08:22 pm -
Back to school: Are we leaving gifted students behind?
Gifted students in US public schools can be overlooked and unappreciated. Parents, looking for better options, have begun to find some.
08/31/2011 02:43 pm -
Can the US compete if only 32 percent of its students are proficient in math?
Among the top-scoring places in the world that participated in a recent exam, math proficiency of 15-year-olds was well above 50 percent. One US state, Massachusetts, cleared that mark, barely.
08/17/2011 06:34 pm -
Opinion Cultural values, not dictators like Libya's Qaddafi, are chief obstacle to Arab progress
If Arabs want significantly greater freedom and economic development, they and their leaders must be fully committed to making it so.
03/18/2011 01:06 pm -
Drive for education reform has teachers unions on the defensive
Even supporters of teachers unions have been critical of them in recent months, forcing unions to collaborate with school districts on education reform as never before.
01/28/2011 12:11 pm -
Ideas for a better world in 2011
In many ways, 2010 is a year you may want to relegate to the filing cabinet quickly. It began with a massive earthquake in Haiti and wound down with North Korea once again being an enfant terrible – bizarrely trying to conduct diplomacy through brinkmanship. In between came Toyota recalls and egg scares, pat downs at airports and unyielding unemployment numbers, too little money in the Irish treasury and too many bedbugs in American sheets. Oil gushed from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for three months, mocking the best intentions of man and technology to stop it, while ash from a volcano in Iceland darkened Europe temporarily as much as its balance sheets. Yet not all was gloomy. The winter Olympics in Canada and the World Cup in South Africa dazzled with their displays of athletic prowess and national pride, becoming hearths around which the world gathered. In Switzerland, the world's largest atom smasher hurled two protons into each other at unfathomable speeds. Then came the year's most poignant moment – the heroic and improbable rescue of 33 miners from the clutches of the Chilean earth. There were many transitions, too – the return of the Republicans in Washington and the Tories in Britain, the scaling back of one war (Iraq) and the escalation of another (Afghanistan), the fall of some powers (Greece) and rise of others (China, Germany, Lady Gaga). To get the new year off to the right start, we decided to ask various thinkers for one idea each to make the world a better place in 2011. We plumbed poets and political figures, physicists and financiers, theologians and novelists. Some of the ideas are provocative, others quixotic. Some you will agree with, others you won't. But in the modest quest to stir a discussion – from academic salons to living rooms to government corridors – we offer these 25 ideas.
12/26/2010 12:56 pm -
Terrorism & Security Hillary Clinton to continue push for START vote
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced she will press for a vote on the START nuclear arms treaty, despite opposition from Sen. John Kyl, a key Republican legislator.
11/17/2010 08:39 am -
START treaty: Mullen delivers tough speech on nuclear weapons agreement
In a speech, Adm. Mike Mullen reiterated his support for the 'New START' agreement with Russia. Senior US military officials fear the nuclear weapons agreement is faltering in Congress.
11/15/2010 05:08 pm -
John Hughes Obama must not let Taliban rule over Afghan women again
Even as Washington prepares to begin withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan next summer, it must not abandon newly-emancipated Afghan women to the Taliban brutality that would reassert itself in our wake.
09/08/2010 05:12 pm -
Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform
As students head back to school, educators nationwide are implementing controversial school reform wrought by Arne Duncan. Pushing competitive market approaches and armed with unprecedented funding and support from the president, he is possibly the most powerful education secretary ever.
08/30/2010 03:06 pm -
John Hughes Muslim women find an ally for more rights: the Koran
Courageous figures like Indonesia's Siti Musdah Mulia are showing Muslim women how to break out of bondage by using the Koran.
05/13/2010 09:54 am -
The Vote Is progressive Asheville Obama’s vision for America?
Hip, environmentally aware, self-reliant and undeniably quaint, Asheville, N.C is a progressive’s vision of what America could be. But mountain liberalism comes at a price.
04/24/2010 12:39 pm -
For Obama, no buddies abroad
Other U.S. presidents have bonded with foreign leaders, but Obama so far has no such ties. Does that matter?
03/27/2010 07:45 pm -
Condoleezza Rice admits some regrets over Iraq war
Condoleezza Rice on Friday said the US government failed to understand how "broken Iraq was as a society."
03/20/2010 06:43 am -
Education reform: Can poor test scores get a teacher fired?
In Houston, a controversial education reform measure allows teachers to be fired based on their students' test scores. Some parents back the policy, but teachers unions have reservations.
03/17/2010 05:40 pm
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