Harvard Graduate School of Education's Meira Levinson argues that recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking their curricula. Drawing on political theory, empirical research and her own experience from teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education.

City business leaders were too quickly dazzled by Atlanta’s superintendent. Here’s how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

Mark Zuckerberg probably never dreamed when he invented Facebook to connect college students that it would someday save a life.

The proposed construction of a mosque near the 9/11 terrorist attack site is a test to see if we have the resolve to face down an ideology that aims to destroy religious liberty in America, and every other freedom we hold dear.

Through a concerted combined community effort, offenders that get out of prison can be helped to stay out for life.

The increase in the minimum wage has actually hurt those who it was intended to benefit.

As elected officials get shouted down at town hall meetings across America, the sheer mistrust toward all things Washington is palpable.

President Obama has not even presented his health care reform plan to Congress and already new health spending is spinning out of control.