At universities around the country, a new semester has begun, and professors of international relations are entering it with a new teaching tool at their disposal: the diplomatic cables released by the website WikiLeaks.The WikiLeaks cable dump is almost universally considered a scholar's treasure t
Kelley Williams-Bolar, an Akron, Ohio, woman who served nine days for lying to get her children into a better school system, was released from jail earlier this week.But the controversy over the case appears to be growing.
The Obama administration has touted community colleges as the one institution in higher education that can best adapt to the nation's economic realities and still deliver the education and training Americans so desperately need.During a 2009 speech, President Obama promised $12 billion for community
If you were given six months to improve Chicago’s public schools, what would you do? That’s the big question facing the interim leader of Chicago Public Schools Terry Mazany. Mazany stepped in when former CEO Ron Huberman resigned last November.