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As co-director of Georgetown University’s Center for Research on Children in the U.S. and the parent of a middle-school student, I was indignant when I first heard that the Common Core State Standards for public schools wanted to increase the amount of nonfiction versus fiction starting in the third grade. …

Penny-wise, pound foolish. That’s one way to describe Harry Reid’s outrageous decision to upend the filibuster rules in the Senate. Jettisoning nearly a century of convention may make it easier to ram through appointments to certain federal agencies and to the D.C. Court of Appeals, but ramped-up hostilities in the …

Erin Cox is a 17-year-old Massachusetts high school senior and honor student. She’s been in the news this week because she was stripped of her title as volleyball team captain and suspended for five games. Why? For simply doing the right thing. One night, Erin received a text from a …