Comedian Louis C.K. recently went on a social-media rant about the Common Core State Standards and testing, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz blogged this week. Within the Twitter barrage of ...

PHOENIX — Federal courts in Arizona sent more people to prison than those in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles combined last year because of the number of illegal border crossers and drug ...

The number of convicted criminals who are sent straight to jail is at its lowest level for a decade, despite crime rising steadily over the same period, the latest figures have revealed. Last year ...

People who teach math, like me, hate it when students ask us, “When am I going to use this?” We don’t hate it because it’s a bad question. We hate it because it’s a really good question, and one that ...