Seventy years ago today, a peaceful Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor turned to carnage and panic as Japanese aircraft roared through the Hawaiian skies and hot ammunition ripped into American ships. Caught by surprise,...
For hard-working American families struggling to make ends meet, the student protesters at Occupy Wall Street must seem like cast members of a reality show designed to make them look shallow and self-indulgent. The...
In recent months, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia have joined hundreds of other institutions nationwide in giving students the choice to participate in on-campus ROTC. Since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Ivy League...
Could a college diploma be a “ticket to nowhere”? Sad to say, but that’s exactly what the time, expense and dream could amount to for way too many of our nation’s college students. At...
Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom? Certainly not for the many young Americans being graduated from colleges that have prepared them inadequately for the competitive marketplace. The failure of...
Norm Augustine is correct that historical illiteracy at the high school level threatens American’s economic and political pre-eminence and puts American workers at a competitive disadvantage (“The Education Our Economy Needs,” op-ed, Sept. 21)....
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