Not all initiatives geared toward improving student performance and school competitiveness have to do with punitive benchmarks and the threat of charters or vouchers plucking pupils and tax dollars away.
Districts can also sponsor change internally, leaning on new interactive media platforms to break outdated modes of learning while preparing More…
Among Capitol Hill’s most common platitudes is this idea that the average voter in Des Moines or Waco or San Luis Obispo is well-enough versed in Medicare law, derivatives markets and climate science to dictate the precise policies coming out of Washington. It isn’t true, of course. The average voter More…
Congress this year is on a tear against bad behavior in the corporate world. Lawmakers have passed credit card reforms to protect Americans from the worst abuses of the big banks; they’re moving now on health reforms to protect Americans from the worst practices of the More…
Last week, as House Democrats took to the floor with near-unanimous praise for legislation to help the unemployed and stimulate the fragile economy, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) offered a wildly different assessment.
“This bill,” he said, “represents a textbook example of how not to deal with the economic challenges that More…
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