The following report presents the results of research on school boards and their members so as to provide parents, voters, policymakers, advocates, and educators with an informative look at the individuals and bodies charged with governing America's schools.

Education reformers must consider whether school districts are the best way to organize schooling, a question which has been too often ignored.

Education leaders often act lazily, blaming union contracts and federal regulation rather than confronting the problems they have the capacity to solve.

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This study assesses the trade-off between drug safety and price savings in online drug purchases. Focusing on five brand-name prescription drugs, we acquire 370 drug samples from 41 online pharmacies and test their authenticity. Of the 41 websites, 8 are clearly US-based and verified by the National Association of...

The Group of Twenty (G-20) asked the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to devise a process for identifying Globally Systemic International Banks (G-SIB).  In July the FSB released a consultative document setting forth the methodology for identifying G-SIBs and in November produced its first list using this methodology.

What is the nature of school boards and what challenges do they face?

In an attempt to protect poor, uninsured and underinsured Americans from unsafe drugs, we are making sure that some go without drugs completely. It is time the law was changed.

We got mixed signals from a turbulent political week. Barack Obama seems to be enjoying an uptick in polls, moving toward 50 percent approval. But his weakness was apparent in his State of the Union address: issues.