Arne Duncan was education secretary from 2009 to 2015. Jorge Elorza, former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, is CEO of Education Reform Now. The latest Nation’s Report Card should be a national wake ...

Beginning this school year, Oberlin College expanded its offerings in the Arabic and MENA Studies department to include two 200-level classes: Intermediate Arabic, which is offered this fall, and ...

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Rachel Ho is a rising 10th-grader at Langley High School in McLean. She loves writing and thinks she might want to follow in her mother’s footsteps and study at the University of Virginia. To get a ...

Screaming Eagle by the glass, a vertical tasting of Hundred Acre paired with a five-course dinner and a $50,000 bottle of Dassai Beyond the Beyond are just a few exclusive wine and sake experiences ...

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Grok the faster interpreter in Python 3.14, learn what’s new in Python packages and PyPI, explore the new Python-to-C features in Cython 3.1, and seize the power of Python’s abstract base classes. In ...

NASA’s troubled Mars Sample Return program is stuck at a crossroads—and is likely to remain in limbo until at least 2026—agency officials said at a press briefing on Tuesday. To bring this precious ...