OPINION- If not for teachers who cared deeply about our education, it is unlikely that many of us would have come anywhere near to realizing our potential. Many years ago, I wrote that “the dream ...

Amid last week’s parade of proclamations about beardo generals and Navy-vessel aesthetics, there was one announcement that felt wholesomely, uncomplicatedly good: “Reading Rainbow” is back — at least ...

The prescient astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan seemed to foresee publications such as the E-R when he wrote in 1995 that “The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of ...

If we are to save higher education in the U.S., we will need a radical reboot. We need a national education compact to change admissions and grading in our schools.