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Do Black Women Really Want to Be Fat?

Novelist Alice Randall says black women choose to stay overweight, but the data proves social and environmental factors play a huge role

Andrew Rotherham

What Everyone Missed on the Pineapple Question

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Much of the uproar about the reading comprehension test was based on bad information

Karen Hughes and Mark Penn

What Are the Best Next Steps for Romney and Obama?

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The Republican strategist and Democratic pollster in their biweekly face-off about Election 2012

Andrew Rotherham

5 Things Teachers Could Learn from the Marines

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Why Fallujah might have more to teach us than Finland about improving our schools

TED Talks For Kids

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The ever-expanding lecture series TED enters the classroom with a new initiative, TED Ed.

Cartoons of the Week: Feb. 25-March 2

Feb. 25-March 2

The GOP frets over its choice of candidates while its frontrunner gains a bit of momentum

Andrew Rotherham

Forget Wall Street. Go Occupy Your Local School District

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Our nation’s schools are a larger cause of economic inequality than investment banks and CEOs