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 ...

A staple of late-night comedy is having a camera crew pose simple questions to young people in the street and capture supremely ignorant answers. It’s your call whether this is funny, exploitative, or ...

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 ...