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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.

Thirty years after the great Marseilles to Paris march against racism in 1983, police violence and racist acts have not abated and still go unpunished.

An international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians released a statement today saying there is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods and crops.

All on Top Ten List of Highest Paid CEOs made at least $100 million.

Continuing to attack pensions and thereby promoting these vastly inadequate personal accounts speeds the U.S. toward a generation of elders living in dire poverty.