It looked like an ordinary math question. Students were asked to speculate on the price of corn and to recommend…
Every Fourth of July, Coney Island hosts a hot dog-eating contest. Contestants gather from around the country to prove that…
I have deliberately refrained from commenting on Hillary Clinton’s sessions with Jean Houston, a psychologist who believes she is an…
Education has become a battleground. So says Stephen Bates in his book, titled Battleground. It tells the story of a…
Picture books about Babar, the elephant king, are being pulled from the shelves. The stories have been judged dangerous for…
Why is it that the more we spend on education the worse it gets? A new report from the U.S.…
A few years ago a researcher compared the math performance of 24,000 13-year-olds from the United States and five other…
Twenty-three years ago during Watergate, I learned the hard way that a prosecutor under pressure can be a dangerous man.…
Dusan Tadic, a cafe owner and part-time policeman, sat uneasily in a blue chair draped with a United Nations emblem.…
Republican presidential candidate and my old friend Robert Dole can point to a solidly prolife voting record. But a few…