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"We just can't accomplish that with the current model," says Rachel Fishman, an education policy analyst at New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. "You're going to need these flexible pathways so ... we can start inching that needle toward ...

Philip Mudd, a former FBI and CIA counterterrorism official, said the Boston attacks more closely resemble "Columbine than any connection to al-Qaeda." Referring to the 1999 Colorado high school shooting that involved two young attackers, Mudd said the ...

Philip Mudd, a former FBI and CIA counterterrorism official, said the Boston attacks more closely resemble "Columbine than any connection to al-Qaeda." Referring to the 1999 Colorado high school shooting that involved two young attackers, Mudd said the ...

"You know what both Sheryl Sandberg and Anne-Marie Slaughter say is the key to a woman's success?" my husband shouted as he led our two daughters out the door with his hands full of lunch boxes, coats and homework. Standing next to the kitchen ...

This past summer, Jason DeParle noted in The New York Times that we are now seeing "two classes divided by 'I do.'" And while people are going on and on about Wall Street and income inequality, it turns out that marriage inequality is one of the ...

Such a change could "potentially open whole new markets of higher education services," says Kevin Carey, education policy program director of the New American Foundation, a non-profit public policy institute. Chief among them, he said, could be Massive ...

Peter Bergen, CNN: "After the examination of millions of pages of evidence, the chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee have publicly stated that coercive interrogation techniques such as waterboarding did ...

At the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, president Maya MacGuineas says the election and the looming "fiscal cliff" could break the stalemate. "Behind closed doors, in a highly partisan period, you're starting to see members of Congress who ...

"Since they were driven out of Swat, the Taliban has not been able to launch large-scale attacks on schools," said Anatol Lieven, professor at the war studies department of King's College London. "This was a one-off assassination (attempt). "This ...

"It's kind of a chorus to do what Ross Perot did 20 years ago," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "Ross Perot became the face of this issue. I also think it's powerful to have many faces bringing the ...