Massachusetts residents voted Tuesday to scrap the requirement that high schoolers pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests in math, science, and English in order to receive ...

Election results turn on hundreds or thousands of policy and campaign margins. There is no one deciding issue. But some float to the top. My colleague Ruy Teixeira persuasively identifies four ...

1. Randall Kennedy, Say It Loud: On Race, Law, History, and Culture (New York: Pantheon, 2021), 410. 2. R. Shep Melnick, “The Great Debate,” in The Crucible of ...

Thirty years ago, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) was signed into law. FASA was designed for the government to better leverage the commercial marketplace. Its objectives particularly ...

A wether is to sheep as a gelding is to horses: A male who has been, ahem, modified before reaching sexual maturity. And if you put a bell on a wether, you can hear him coming when he leads the ...

Who are the best college presidents? This table ranks more than 400 college and university presidents based on how much they increased access, affordability, and student success during their time ...

What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive (Zondervan, 256 pp.), Russ Ramsey seeks to deepen our “understanding of human experience” and make us “fearless when it comes to loving ...

The war in Ukraine offers many important lessons for the defense of Taiwan against possible aggression by the People’s Republic of China. The obvious differences between the theaters and the ...

Florida schools received national attention two decades ago when Jeb Bush implemented an aggressive reform agenda. As the bipartisan consensus on education reform shifted, however, Florida’s ...

What if we could solve the organ donor shortage with a simple tax credit? That is the idea behind the End Kidney Deaths Act (EKDA) (). The bill, advanced by the Coalition to Modify NOTA (NOTA ...

Let’s assume an economic baseline where from 2025 to 2040, the American economy sees annual real GDP growth of maybe 2.0 percent. Such a forecast, even a bit lower, is in keeping with what many ...

At the beginning of her debate with Donald Trump last month, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by the moderators, “When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than ...