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The Vice Presidency is an odd job interview. Best way to apply is to deny desiring the position. Saying exemplary things about the candidate never hurts.
Let's skip over the blather about who will run for vice president. Romney won't commit an entertaining Sarah Palin blunder. But suppose Mitt loses? Who gains politically for 2016?
My client George Zimmerman is a very vulnerable individual weighing only 250 pounds. Fragile and delicate like a petite, gamine ballet dancer. His assailant Trayvon Martin was over 100 pounds lighter -- making him much more agile and dangerous.
For Latino families of mixed-status, Jeb Bush's endorsement of Romney shows a dangerous path, and a lack of understanding and caring for our communities. He has decided to follow his party into the void rather than lead his party to the future.
This week began with Oscars, and while nothing could ever top Sacha Baron Cohen's fateful encounter with Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet, the late nig...
Former candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich watched, crest-fallen, from their respective hotel suites as Bush declared victory without ever being a formal candidate himself.
The real benefit of technology will be in the development of new learning progressions -- pathways that combine adaptive learning, social learning, and project-based learning -- that are engaging, efficient, and effective.
The real bellwether of Romney's standing as a candidate isn't the number of endorsements he's already won -- it's the endorsements he's been denied, and apparently, won't receive.
Is there a chance there will be no clear winner by August? Is there a possibility of a brokered convention? Will the party's leaders entice Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie or Paul Ryan to come to Tampa for a chance to grab the Oval Office keys? At this point, anything's possible.
While US schools will soon produce higher achievement and better preparation, cheap tablets will for the first time connect millions of students in developing economies to high quality secondary education.
New York and Boston are home to the publishers; metro D.C. is home to the giants of learning online. But the Bay Area is poised to lead the learning revolution.
The Puerto Rico Investment Promotion Act will create tens of thousands of jobs and jumpstart the Puerto Rican economy. If Republicans can claim credit for its passage, they will be in a better position to win over Puerto Rican voters, particularly in Florida, where it really matters in 2012.
The Internet has improved the public provision of services in a variety of ways and it is beginning to transform public education.
According to Diane Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op-ed essay, titled, of course, "Waiting for a School Miracle," high-powered education reformers are claiming "miracles" for their reform efforts.
Mary Matalin and Ron Reagan discuss why Romney isn't doing better and whether Palin could do any worse. Plus there's strong disagreement over global warming and Germany's nuclear punt.
At this point, there are only a few holdouts left on the sidelines, as most of the bigwigs (and some decidedly "smallwigs") have made their intentions known.
