Detroit, the cradle of America’s automobile industry and once the nation’s fourth-most-populous city, has filed for bankruptcy, an official said Thursday afternoon, the largest American city ever to take such a course. The decision to turn to the federal courts, which required approval from b... Read more...
TODAY at 1:15PM, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 530 Walnut Street (17th Floor) will hear oral arguments on an appeal filed by Abu-Jamal challenging his resentencing from death to life in prison without parole. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s supporters will gather at the courthouse at 11:30AM and wear ... Read more...
To say Britney Exline (pictured) is smarter than average is like saying Barack Obama is just another president. It simply isn't true and here's why: Exline recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2011 at the age of 19, making her the youngest engineer to graduate from... Read more...
For more than a generation, policymakers have intensely focused on the achievement gap, the difference between primarily low-income and minority children compared to their peers on standardized tests and other outputs. In doing so, they have neglected the basic truth that achievement follows from ... Read more...
A new wave of research shows that in disciplining students, out-of-school suspensions don't help. More often, suspensions push students so far behind academically that dropping out becomes increasingly likely. Critics of suspensions, and the zero-tolerance policies that fuel them, advocate f... Read more...