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Cut the Deficit -- Cut Military Spending

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jim Wallis

To reduce a $1.6 trillion shortfall in the 2011 budget, we should cut the contracts of private defense contractors who serve their own profits.

Celine Cousteau: Environmentalism Should Be Taught In Schools

Indagare | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

It must be eco-school day. This morning, we wrote about a contest for America's Greenest School and 5 Green Tips For Students, and now we come across ...

Westside Preschool Is No Daydream for Young Entrepreneur

Anthea Raymond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Anthea Raymond

With his mother's help, David Frank converted a Culver City home into a preschool. Things began slowly, but within six months, the place was full. Today, there's a two-year-long waiting list.

Not Just Numbers: The President's Budget and Real Life

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Deborah Weinstein

The President's budget came out on Monday. I've been awash in the fine print for a couple of days, and what's starting to emerge out of all the pages...

How Union Pensions Will Challenge Our Economy, And Other Reasons to Avoid Card Check

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Gary Shapiro

Our nation will soon be hit by another economic tsunami. Behind the union bankrolling of the 2008 elections are union pension obligations that will ba...

The Big Picture on School Performance

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sam Chaltain

President Obama has repeatedly criticized the No Child Left Behind Act for keeping the "goals loose but the steps tight." I have a scorecard to propose: the ABC's of School Success.

Cyberspace, Bullying And Suicide -- Again

Madeline Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Madeline Wheeler

Phoebe Prince did not have to die. Bullying is another form of hate-crime. It is a problem that can be solved through education and legislation.

Be Your Own Sleep Specialist: Sleep Medicine And The Self-Care Movement

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Sleep Machismo is bringing this country to its knees in terms of performance deficits at work and fueling the fire under the obesity pandemic we are now witnessing. We must all become sleep specialists.

Sundance: Waiting for Superman

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Stewart Nusbaumer

The winner of the Audience Award for Best US Documentary was Waiting for Superman, a no-hold-your-punches investigation of our failing public schools.

Better Education Is the Best Jobs Bill

Kati Haycock | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Kati Haycock

Our nation's fortunes are bound inextricably to how well we educate our children. Not just some of our children. Not just the fortunate few. But all of our children.

Why Art Education Matters

Lynda Resnick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lynda Resnick

The next time your local school puts its arts program on the chopping block, I hope you'll consider all that's at stake: It's so much more than construction paper and pipe cleaners.

America's Forgotten Colleges

Darrell West | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Darrell West

Community colleges sit at the bottom of the social status list. In 2009, only 1.4% of all national news coverage dealt with education; of that, only 2.9% dealt with community colleges.

Seth Godin, Linchpin, Education & Travel

Soultravelers3 | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Soultravelers3

Family travel and education go hand in hand, especially extended family travel or a creative ultra-mobile lifestyle design that includes the whole...

Race to the Top? Part I

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dr. Jim Taylor

Bookended by a story about a girl who committed suicide after failing a math test, the film Race to Nowhere shows the price young people are paying for hanging on the runaway train of academic overachievement.

STUDY: Sex-Ed Classes With Abstinence Focus Can Delay Sex In Teens

Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can convince a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researche...

Taxing the Rich

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lawrence Wittner

The passage of the Oregon's tax-the-rich ballot propositions is one more indication that most believe the vast wealth in the hands of individuals and corporations should be drawn upon to promote the public welfare.

To Weep or Reap: The Flap on School Gardens

Lisa Bennett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Lisa Bennett

In truth, the first time I read Flanagan's article, I too felt a paroxysm of worry. Were school gardens actually robbing our most vulnerable students of more basic and important learning experiences?

Obama to Overhaul NCLB

Eric Tipler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Eric Tipler

According to the New York Times, President Obama is planning to overhaul No Child Left Behind. While there aren't specifics yet, the ideas floated sound like improvements of a failed policy.

'No Child Left Behind' Administration Proposals Seek Broad Changes

AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the No Child Left Behind education law, replacing the school accountability system ...

Potomac 20854: A made for TV drama unfolds in the DC suburb

Cari Shane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Cari Shane

At Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland, 40 to 50 students were involved in a computer hacking scheme to change grades.

Revisionist RIP

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Sean Paige

So far out of the mainstream was Howard Zinn's interpretation of U.S. history that even the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- no slouch as a liberal -- called Zinn a "polemicist, not a historian."

How America's Universities Became Hedge Funds

Bob Samuels | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Bob Samuels

In the brave new world where universities operate like hedge funds, institutions of higher learning have lost their way by caring more about interest rates than educational quality.

The State of the Union: Unfinished Business

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jim Wallis

Rather than the inspiring rhetoric of a campaign speech, Obama's State of the Union address was a more sober reflection on unfinished business.

Obama Endorses Student Loan Relief as Economic Stimulus

Susan L. Travis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Susan L. Travis

Time will tell if Obama's proposals for student loan relief will come to pass. Relieving the albatross of student loans for the educated poor is one step in a series of institutional reforms which can provide a healthy stimulus for our long term prosperity.

College to Go

Anna Tuttle Villegas | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Anna Tuttle Villegas

Our one-size-fits-all approach to community college enrollment requires reexamination, especially as community colleges are being called upon to play a role in rejuvenating our economy.