Over 30,000 Los Angeles teachers are out on a historic strike to beat back austerity and pro-charter school forces

Violent crime has been decreasing for decades, but a recent surge shows why the police need to earn back our trust

Barack Obama and John Edwards are boldly abandoning me-first campaigns for online "political movements." Howard Dean, anyone?

Popular education "reform" measures are rooted in white resistance to Brown v. Board of Education

Readers respond to recent articles on Sylvia Ann Hewlett and mandatory drug testing in public schools.

A new study shows pesticide research is biased towards honeybees, which could negatively impact other bee species

A social media experiment inspires women to keep it on, even if Piers Morgan doesn't approve

While you'll look very basic, switching from cigs to vaping may significantly increase life expectancy

Journalist Kristina Rizga spent 4 years at SF's Mission High and learned there was more to success than test scores

Gaffe riot: Didn't the president get tutored before his 100-days interview blitz?

Talk of adapting to climate change is less polarizing to conservatives than the idea of slashing emissions

Computers can spark a learning revolution, says the author of a new study of technology and education. But how will we pay for it?

NYU game-theory scholar Steven Brams says Trump's unpredictability would work better in poker than in politics

Three engineers run the numbers to figure out if you're actually saving energy through this common "trick"

The booming science of "people analytics" is putting our bodies, minds and even our politics to the test