Advertisement Today's youth are slowly realizing that their assets are on the line, too. Political leaders have already acquired debt on their behalf, increasing the rate of deficit spending....

Anticipation builds for next Kilpatrick twist You can't have a conversation in this town lately without it moving to the inevitable question: "So, do you think the feds will indict Kwame...

The city's education leaders -- both public and charter -- have come together on a revolutionary plan that could rid Detroit of failing schools and assure that 90 percent of school children graduate...

Term limits have been a disaster for Michigan. But don't take our word for it. Wayne State University has just finished a 12-year study on the effect of term limits on Michigan's political structure...

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood." -- Daniel Burnham, architect of "The Plan of Chicago" The idea that President Barack Obama should cut up America's credit cards -- that...

The majority of young Americans are liberal idealists moved by a visceral reaction against the George W. Bush era. But the reforms of the Democratic Party that they fervently support do not benefit...

Today Detroit's most powerful education players are outlining a dramatic new plan to transform the city's educational landscape -- and convince long-weary national foundations that the Motor City is,...

While driving with my future wife along California's Highway 1, my new Toyota MR2 suddenly fishtailed. It shot off a cliff, then rolled 350 feet before stopping. Mary sustained a broken neck and...

Michigan spends more than $13 billion -- roughly one-third of the state budget -- on K-12 education, with an estimated 85 percent going to salaries and benefits. Most of that $11 billion is doled out...

In their newly released book, "Switch," two brothers team up to help provide a pathway to change. Chip Heath and brother, Dan, the best-selling authors of "Made To Stick," have written a prescription...

At this time of high unemployment, one group of professionals has no shortage of job security: bad teachers. Few public school principals in the country are able to dismiss an incompetent teacher...

Applauding the mass firings at Central Falls High School — despite the real progress underway — is the latest clarion call by the blame-the-teacher crowd. Rather than sharing responsibility,...

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Millions of unemployed Americans want one. And a restless country has told Washington — loud and clear — that the issue is Job No. 1. So what’s a country to do? Help thy...

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W hat to make of the Massa mess? Naked congressmen, shower stall encounters, “tickle parties,” wraslin’ with the boys back at the condo - the Eric Massa story sounds like low-rent...

T he state Senate should - no, make that must - pass a bill today that gives our schools new, clear and compelling powers to fight the plague of bullying that has claimed too many lives and made...

W ASHINGTON - There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the...

TOKYO — Japan's economy grew less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter, and a measurement of price trends hit a record low, adding to pressure on the Bank of Japan to ease monetary...

Filed at 11:11 p.m. ET SYDNEY (AP) -- An elephant calf that was believed to have died during a nine-day labor is feeding itself and has earned the nickname ''Mr. Shuffles'' since learning to stand,...

Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed...

Filed at 12:20 a.m. ET MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Eight journalists have been kidnapped in a Mexican border city in a two-week span in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere, the...

More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- The foreclosure crisis isn't over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down. RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday that the number of U.S. households facing...