OPINION: Southern Schools: Worst to First for 2 Reasons . . . ACADEMIC ACCOUNTABILITY and DISCIPLINE

Public education’s hottest topic is what’s known as the “Southern Surge.”  The term describes the best-in-the-nation academic progress being made for the past 5-10 years by schools in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and other southern states.    Historically, most schools in those states have been bottom-dwellers or close to it...

Rubio to Rivals: Trump Owns the Hemisphere

For years, Washington talked tough about protecting America’s backyard while doing very little actually to secure it. That era is over. In a clear-eyed warning to adversaries and a long-overdue reassurance to American voters, Senator Marco Rubio made it plain: this is our hemisphere, and under President Donald Trump, the United...