Montessori students participate in President's Challenge Physical Fitness Test

After months of training, the elementary students of May River Montessori were put to the test.

Do Our Public Schools Threaten National Security?

Diane Ravitch US Education Reform and National Security by Joel I. Klein, Condoleezza Rice, and others Simpson Kalisher Syracuse, New York, 1971; detail of a photograph by Simpson Kalisher from his recent book The Alienated Photographer . It is published by Two Penny Press, with an introduction by Luc Sante. What makes Joel Klein and Condoleezza Rice’s new report on the schools different from ...

President’s Council on Fitness backs Wii, Kinect and other video games

We called it “the devil’s machine” in my house, and the Faustian bargain we struck over that first Nintendo 64 would have impressed Lucifer himself. We bought it for my son when he was perhaps 7; it provided countless hours of contentment for him and an equal measure of downtime for Mom and Dad. Read full article >>

Video games: the new exercise machine

We called it " the devil's machine" in my house, and the Faustian bargain we struck over that first Nintendo 64 would have impressed Lucifer himself. We bought it for my son when he was perhaps 7; it provided countless hours of contentment for him and an...

Secret Service problems much bigger than prostitutes

So far, the biggest scandal in the history of the Secret Service involves agents hiring prostitutes in Colombia . But the media have largely ignored a much bigger scandal at the agency: a lax management culture that condones cutting corners, directly endangering the life of the president. Read full article >>