We parents who want an educational system that can rescue those most at risk realize that no contractual agreement will solve those glaring inequalities.
Sometimes classroom educators must use their "Teacher Voice" to restore sanity. That's what is happening in Chicago, where striking public school teachers are shouting "enough is enough" to test-driven school reform schemes.
FAIRFAX, Va. -- It was just one line. But Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney touched, ever so briefly, on the contentious issue of teacher...
CHICAGO -- A sense of order and decorum prevails at Noble Street College Prep as students move quickly through a hallway adorned with banners from doz...
The word "Food Desert" was coined to describe Chicago. Can the Emanuel administration truly make Chicago the city in a garden? Can they make the city that works, work for everyone?
In 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel infamously said that progressives are "fucking retarded." Lately I've begun to think he was corr...
President Obama has just imposed martial law in Chicago, Illinois. He will consider signing an Executive Order directing that the western border of the District of Columbia shall extend to Iowa.
Any Congress, particularly a hostile Congress, has the power to give any sitting president a major national security migraine -- and the incoming House GOP leadership has proven their determination to do just that.
The least Californians can do is commit ourselves to fix a broken system through open primaries, redistricting reform and term limits modification.
Rahm Emanuel's decision to return to Chicago reflects the most troubling aspect of Chicago politics: the notion that the city needs a dictator and the only important challenge is finding a new one.
Emanuel can leave the White House, then, with considerable pride in his accomplishments.
The angry left is angry with Barack Obama. It's lying on the floor kicking and screaming and holding its breath. Goodness is not being accomplished. Injustice continues sort of unabated.
Something about Fred Thompson's life mirrors the greatness of America -- how ordinary men and women answer the call to service. He was willing to serve, of course, but not obsessed by the need for power.
Sarah Palin's Twitter account has been rich fodder this week for those of us who enjoy that lazy summer pastime of rolling our eyes at ex-half-governors who believe they have something to add to the national discourse via social media.
Apparently the 2010 census has really been lagging in response rates. Internet sketch group 'The Full Ginsberg,' however, really understands what it t...
As we all now know, a second alleged job 'dangle' was made by the White House to a potential Senate primary candidate -- this time it was Andrew Romanoff.
Fully 25% of Republicans believe the President is the Anti- Christ, so it seems most of us agree he has supernatural powers; we just can't agree as to whether they come from above or below.
Real historians tell us two things about Presidents and scandal: it's rarely the crime and usually the cover-up that derails Presidents.
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) punked conservative talk show host Glenn Beck yesterday by recanting his...
If social network analysis is so powerful, why isn't it used more often--in intelligence and elsewhere?
The Bennet public option letter can only be characterized as the worst form of manipulation of Democratic voters by the White House.
Played by Andy Samberg, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel offered up an "Even-Tempered Apology" last night on SNL for his use of the word "retarded." While ...
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Contrary to what some progressives may tell themselves, they were goaded into action by Obama -- not the other way around.
I admire Barack Obama very much. He's smart as hell and his attempt to change the tone of politics has been admirable. But it has failed.
