Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger put out an appeal last week in the Journal of Higher Education to donate money to create textbooks online that would be free to children in grades K-12 worldwide. While that is a great idea, the appeal should be re-worded to say "support existing efforts...

Wikipedia co-founder James Sanger put out an appeal last week in the Journal of Higher Education to donate money to create textbooks online that would be free to children in grades K-12 worldwide. While that is a great idea, the appeal should be reworded to say "support existing efforts...

It is hard to believe, but science in America is struggling. Funding for scientific research has been cut back for years, but this year it is so bad that Fermi National Lab in the Chicago area, needs to close down for six weeks in 2008 to make ends...

The well-known luxury designer Zac Posen and DHL, the leading global express delivery company, have joined together to do something most teachers only dream about----publicly thank teachers for what they do.

Zac created a beautiful limited-edition Italian leather bag and DHL bore all the costs of production and...

Over three decades after humanity last put a representative on the Moon, a new era in space exploration begins today, September 13, in Los Angeles as the Google Lunar XPrize launches with $30,000,000 in prizes for the first private group to successfully put a robotic rover on the moon....

Between the ages of 26 and 31, I was in the reproductive phase of life. I was so excited about my ability to create adorable human beings that in five years, we had three daughters: Susan, Janet and Anne. I went from being able to sleep in and to control...

Americans need to remember what Thomas Jefferson once said, "If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter."

The education of future journalists is at stake in the U.S. The unlikely culprit is the No Child Left Behind...