My husband, Ralph, and I have been spending time in the Hamptons, a string of beautiful beach towns on the far eastern end of New York's Long Island, since the 1970s. Over the years, we've been lucky enough to experience several different ...
The Players: Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans The Play: Trying to outflank Barack Obama on student loans The Strategy: Polls give Mr. Obama a big lead among college students and voters under 30, an edge he enjoyed in 2008. Looking to ...
From the Reason Foundation Gov. Scott Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50-42 among those likely to vote in Wisconsin's June 5 recall election, according to a new Reason-Rupe poll of 708 Wisconsin adults on cell phones and landlines.
AT THE END OF 2005, I packed my bags for a New Year's trip to Cape Town with one of my closest childhood friends. "You'll have bobotie," my mom said. I asked her what that was. "It's like the national dish of South Africa," she said. "It ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The controversy over Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering touches on language used in regulatory filings called “risk factors.”
Joel Klein, Condoleezza Rice, and other worthies have just published a book titled "U.S. Education Reform and National Security." At first blush, this might seem like an odd angle from which to approach the topic of education. Can't we ...
By Sara Murray and Stephanie Banchero Mitt Romney proposed using federal funds to allow low-income parents to enroll their children in any in-state public school, as he unveiled an education policy designed to widen school choice and shift ...
MADRID—The head of Spain's Catalonia region Friday called for the central government to accelerate plans to share responsibility for regional debt because of increasing difficulties they face to finance themselves, while stressing his ...
PHILADELPHIA--Mitt Romney ventured to an urban charter school Thursday in a rare inner-city campaign stop, where he met with a handful of educators who challenged the presidential candidate on his education policies.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Tribes on two Oregon Indian reservations this week protested a new rule by Oregon education officials that bans public schools from using Native American imagery in team names and mascots.
WASHINGTON—Mitt Romney unveiled a proposal Wednesday that would reduce the federal role in education and let some low-income and special-education students use federal money for private-school tuition or private tutoring.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch)—Someone recently asked TaxMama how to find the best performing 529 plan for his child’s college savings. That got TaxMama wondering. Is it still a good idea to put money into specialized accounts that avoid taxes, ...
Is the U.S. government taking on one of the Chinese government's best known efforts to promote China's image abroad? That was the question ricocheting around the Chinese Internet this week after the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on ...