Reporter Eve Pell investigates David Brennan, a wealthy entrepeneur whose privately run charter schools rest at the center of the school-choice debate. Pell uses Brennan's story to investigate the consequences of private management of public schools, including the impact of Brennan's market-driven mindset and conservative values on the quality of the education provided by his schools.

Associate reporter Kristi Coale examines a $25 million deal between Swiss biotech giant Novartis and University of California at Berkeley’s Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, which frees faculty and students from the need to pursue individual funding.

Integration. It was called the greatest social experiment of our generation. But 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education, many schools are still sharply segregated along color lines. America's changing demographics have tested the limits of our racial and ethnic tolerance, leaving many of us to ask whether the nation's diversity will enrich us or tear us apart.

Foreign exchange students visiting the United States are being scammed by unscrupulous operators of student exchange programs in the United States and abroad.