With state budgets under considerable strain, the time has come for the federal government to take a hard look at the capacities of state education agencies to fulfill progressive education mandates.

Based on our reading of the evidence, the Supplemental Security Income-disabled children program has increasingly become a more general welfare program that in large part targets a population of able-bodied single mothers that overlaps with the TANF population.

Jon Entine talks about his recent book, Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, which focuses on the history of Jews all over the world in combination with their DNA structure.

As a threat to the nation's health, television stands far higher than alcohol, drugs, or tobacco, and the worry is that it may be too late to do anything about it, since the addiction is all but universal.

Setting a national goal of having all students proficient by 2014 while letting states create their own tests and set their own cut scores has produced a mess.

It is important to have a plan that builds a foundation for families by fighting hunger and investing in children.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

Children do not make their individual parents very happy, but they offer the broader society huge benefits.