Education

Last week school choice advocates and parents were dealt a serious setback by House Republicans in their attempt to move control of education policy to states and local school districts. With the introduction of H.R.

It is not often that President Obama borrows from the Republican playbook to push a policy that some Republican Members of Congress have been advocating for years. In his State of the Union address last month and later at an address at the University of Michigan, President Obama put colleges on notice that unless they find ways to reduce college tuition and make college more affordable, then his administration will reduce federal funds to campus-based student aid programs.

In Martin Luther King, Jr., America had its national conscience.  A voice for the poor, the oppressed, the repressed, the disadvantaged, the discriminated and the hopeless. 

Throughout my lifetime, as a younger man, and now, as the father of two children who are about the same age as I was during the time that King walked the Earth, I still find his wisdom as enduring today, as I did then.

The year 2011 has been a reflection of all that is good and bad that encompasses human behavior and human events.

We saw remarkable kindness and joy in the actions from those who serve our nation on the front lines of public safety – men and women who put their own lives and safety on the line to preserve the peace and protect our communities from those who seek to do us harm.

How did the Secretary of Education overestimate that 82 percent of schools would fail to meet requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act by such a wide margin? The real number of schools that would fail is less than half, 48 percent, or 34 percentage points less than Secretary Duncan’s estimate.