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Boston area part-time faculty are taking steps to organize. Service Employees International Union successfully unionized adjunct faculty at Tufts University last month.

A wider view of the War on Terror may be necessary, but it is by no means more comforting.

More than 100 children’s book authors and illustrators have sent a letter to the White House to ask President Obama to ease the country’s mandates for "excessive" standardized testing in our nation’s schools. Such an emphasis has a negative impact on kids’ love of reading and literature, they say. The letter is being promoted by advocacy group FairTest (The National Center for Fair & Open Testing).

Revelations before the trip of a covert U.S. Internet surveillance program, code-named Prism, caused outrage in a country where memories of the eavesdropping East German Stasi secret police are still fresh.

Democrats like moderate Keynesianism. Republicans favour free markets unfettered. The crisis-ridden system is never challenged

More than 80% of parents voted to skip an exam that the state says helps evaluate teachers. Move is believed to be unprecedented.