The fossilised jawbone, teeth and scales of an enormous 10-meter predatory shark, which would have roamed the seas around 89m years ago, have been dug up in Kansas, USA.

Three Google, Inc. executives have been convicted on privacy charges by a Milan court for transmitting a video showing the bullying of a youth with Down’s syndrome.

After winning the unanimous backing of Latin America and the Caribbean in its claim to sovereignty over the Falklands Islands, Argentina is seeking a UN ruling over the row.

Dissent and unrest is rife across Europe as workers and activists from different countries strike and riot in rejection of government plans to cut spending and impose austerity policies.

Amid fears that the new Obama administration will impose tighter strictures on guns, gun rights activists are pushing their State governments to loosen gun laws.

Iran is planning to release “irrefutable evidence” that terrorist ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi was “aided and abetted” by the US government before his arrest, according to Press TV.

Why does sustainable transit seem like such a far-off dream? Ostensibly obstructed by years of costly R&D, unprecedented political and technological breakthrough, and often some sort of sci-fi revolution, the […]

After a long delay, the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) released its report on whether the Bush administration lawyers who wrote the notorious memos justifying the use […]

The CEO of Baltimore’s public schools wants “everybody to do their job better.” He’s dedicated himself to making that happen.

“A funny combination of confidence and humility” makes a great leader in the school system, as Andres Alonso explains.

Why technology is now “tremendously important” to meaningful education reform.

An incident from early in his teaching career taught Andres Alonso to “keep looking for the key” to each student’s learning style.

The fourth season of the acclaimed TV drama was all about the Baltimore school system. So why won’t the real-life CEO of Baltimore’s public schools watch it?

Bush’s famous education act was laudable in some ways, too “timid” in others. Should the Obama administration work within it or forge a new path?

It’s often said that public schools must be made more “accountable.” How—and to whom?

The CEO of Baltimore’s public schools explains why shutting down underperforming schools isn’t always in the best interests of teachers, but can work wonders for students.

Andres Alonso “didn’t arrive with a blueprint” for fixing Baltimore’s ailing school system. But he did bring an ironclad standard for progress.

The Baltimore schools CEO discusses the remarkable strides he’s made in turning around one of the poorest, most under-served districts in the nation.

A conversation with the CEO of the Baltimore public school system.

As a genre, science fiction could potentially wield more influence over its followers than any other cultural force. Through film, television, and comics, it has inspired countless socially-awkward young people […]