Given their place as the most powerful public-employee alliance, teachers’ unions are front and center in the debate that is going on in Wisconsin. But beyond the high-decibel clashes between Tea Partyers and public-employees’ unions are contentious education-policy issues that reformers, teachers’ unions and analysts have debated for years.
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Obama’s Libya Speech: No ‘Doctrine,’ But a Peek at Priorities
Back when Barack Obama was a Senator, he had high expectations for a new kind of U.S.
Dubai Debt: Global Economic Recovery Still in Danger
As we reach the end of a miserable 2009, signs continue to mount across the globe that the world economy is stirring back to life. The U.S.
Kids care for mom without arms, legs
Every morning, Lisa Strong’s 10-year-old son lifts her heavy prosthetic legs and screws them into the levers in her knees.
Arabic translator for four presidents calls it a career
It’s the end of an era. Gamal Helal, the longtime Arabic translator to four presidents and six secretaries of state, wrapped up his last day at the State Department on Thursday.
How Valid is the Insurers’ Attack on Health Reform?
After months of lending its cautious, very qualified support to health-care reform, the health insurance industry has lobbed its first bomb at the Democrats’ proposals.
Why Air Travel is About to Get Worse
Expect Delays: An Analysis of Air Travel Trends in the United States Adie Tomer and Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings Institution; 40 pages The Gist: We all know flying can be a miserable way to travel. Most of us have suffered airport gridlock, interminable flights in cramped seats or vanishing luggage — and those of us who haven’t have surely endured the horror stories second-hand
Lock break halts part of Ohio River traffic
A lock break has occurred on the Ohio River near Warsaw, Kentucky, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Corps spokesman Todd Hornback called the break, which happened Sunday morning, “catastrophic.” No injuries were reported
Reports: U.S. scraps missile defense shield plans
The United States has suspended Bush-administration plans for a missile defense shield in Poland, a spokeswoman for the Polish Ministry of Defense said Thursday. “This is catastrophic for Poland,” said the spokeswoman, who declined to be named in line with ministry policy
Japan’s new PM faces daunting in-tray
It’s all but certain that Yukio Hatoyama will be elected Japan’s next prime minister on Wednesday. Less clear is the direction the nation will take under him