The usual system for grading students is, bit by bit, going by the wayside in favor of one that emphasizes learning over traditional measures.
So-called mastery-based g...
I’m tired of hearing that the current spike in inflation is “transitory” — not because I doubt the underlying economics of the claim, but because the ever-more-common us...
Not everyone wants or needs a college education. We have heard that said many times and it has begun to ring true much more often the past few years.
Four years is a lo...
It was an exercise in frustration recently as an editorial writer tried to track down when guidance is coming for those who received Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 shots mon...
The FDA recently made two important decisions — one bad, one good — that will affect people with cognitive decline.
The approval of Aduhelm (aducanumab), an expensive an...
Now two years into the pandemic, we continue to hear constant fights about the fundamental antagonism between being an independent individual and being a good group memb...
We have never met Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, but we understand he, like so many others, wants to be the next governor of this commonwealth or...
Inflection points in global politics don’t often announce themselves in advance.
For almost a decade under three U.S. presidents, the two superpowers have slid into more...
The United States has yet to deal adequately with the crisis of the vast numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in our country.
According to a 2016 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed devastating cracks in the foundation of U.S. health care. Hospitals were unprepared for enormous challenges to staffing, resulting from bu...
