One of the hottest battle lines in education revolves around this question: Should states and districts ease up on requiring schools to limit the size of their classes?
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“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” — Aristotle
An unimaginable natural disaster that was a combination of a monster 9.0 earthqua...
WASHINGTON — President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing...
Republicans last fall stressed economic issues nationally and in many states, vowing to focus on jobs, curbing government spending and scrapping President Barack Obama’s...
Billionaires vs. millionaires? In the National Football League labor dispute, it sure is hard to choose sides.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has taken an especially h...
There’s an old cartoon with a dog chasing a bus day after day, week after week, until in the final panel, the dog catches the bus and sinks its teeth into a rear tire. A...
Our state and country face enormous fiscal challenges because the economy is badly broken and for the last four years has not provided family supporting jobs at anywhere...
The war in Afghanistan, our longest war, is well into its 10th year. It claimed the lives of 499 U.S. troops in 2010, and more lives will be lost once the “fighting seas...
With every passing day, Japan’s chain reaction of disasters pushes the envelope of what humankind regards as unthinkable.
The 9.0 earthquake was so powerful it literally...
WASHINGTON — House Republicans called an “emergency meeting” this week, suspending the usual procedures to rush an urgent piece of legislation to the floor.
Had the new...
