As if the holidays weren't stressful enough, winter break has become prime time in many households for high school seniors to spend time filling out those dreaded college application forms....
Remember President Clinton's 1995 promise to "mend affirmative action, not end it"? He did virtually nothing to turn that promise into policy--but now, a new group of menders has stepped...
Whatever lessons her 24 years of marriage to Bill have taught Hillary Rodham Clinton, political skills are not among them. Last week, the first lady went to the Middle East...
As students and professors head back to campuses around the country in the next few weeks, one person who won't be returning to classes is professor Mary Daly, who taught...
The Clinton administration, which has long favored dispensing jobs, college admissions and government contracts on the basis of race, now has decided that voting can be restricted by race as...
In 30 years of following education reform I've never seen a story quite like this one. A year ago, California voters opted to end bilingual education programs in their state...
Ever since Sigmund Freud declared that all young boys secretly wanted to kill their fathers and marry their mothers, the psychiatric community has been waging war on parents. Fathers were...
What is it that motivates someone to kill another person, especially a stranger? And should one motive be punished more severely than any other? Yes, if the motive happens to...
Becoming a U.S. citizen has never been more difficult, or so it appears, judging from recent denial rates for immigrants wishing to become naturalized Americans. Some 1.8 million immigrants are...
`Oh, I don't like this! It's so cramped!" So said a fellow tourist as we stepped through the front door of Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Frederick C. Robie house in...