After a week in which the phone lines of the Associated Press were bugged and Google glasses that can record our every move are being tested, it seems fitting to mark World Information Society Day.
The chairman of the Chicago White Sox and Bulls is going into the global security business with an eclectic and controversial group of partners tied to the Obama administration, documents and interviews show.
Today marks the annual Day of Remembrance, when Cambodians commemorate the estimated 2 million people who died in the "killing fields" during the Khmer Rouge regime.
Two branches of the U.S. military are grappling with allegations of sexual misconduct against leaders of their sexual assault prevention programs, while the Pentagon released a survey that estimates that 26,000 women and men in the military were sexually assaulted in 2012.
To mark World Press Freedom Day, The I Files team has put together a playlist highlighting the high-stakes challenges that journalists face in many countries around the world.
An expanding pool of alternative teacher training programs is capitalizing on the belief that the more experience an aspiring teacher has in a classroom, the better. Yet experts acknowledge that little is known about which strategies actually work best.
Although largely untested and debated among educators, one of California’s assessments for aspiring teachers has served as a model for a national exam that at least 25 states are introducing.
After students leave schools of education, and after years of reforms, institutions often have no way of ascertaining if their programs produced high-quality teachers.
Dudley's lousewort is found in only three places in the world. One of them is Camp Pico Blanco, where Scouts and staff harvested old-growth trees it needs to survive.
Today marks the annual Day of Remembrance, when Cambodians commemorate the estimated 2 million people who died in the "killing fields" during the Khmer Rouge regime.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians took to the streets today to commemorate the "nakba," or "catastrophe," when they fled or were expelled from their homes during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
To mark World Press Freedom Day, The I Files team has put together a playlist highlighting the high-stakes challenges that journalists face in many countries around the world.
After failing to hit progress benchmarks, the agency now says its pledge to make quicker decisions on all claims was never meant to include some benefits.
Two branches of the U.S. military are grappling with allegations of sexual misconduct against leaders of their sexual assault prevention programs, while the Pentagon released a survey that estimates that 26,000 women and men in the military were sexually assaulted in 2012.
There is nothing to prevent sex offenders and others with criminal records from becoming alcohol and drug counselors in California, even though such roles give them direct contact with people, including teens, at their most vulnerable.
The first woman competing in a Los Angeles mayoral runoff in the city’s history has been unable to make significant inroads with female campaign contributors, an analysis of city campaign finance data shows.
California’s Assembly Democrats pumped $5.8 million into 2012 campaigns targeted by Speaker John A. Pérez, a CIR data analysis shows. Pérez often gave the biggest fundraisers leadership posts and seats on powerful "juice committees."
After failing to hit progress benchmarks, the agency now says its pledge to make quicker decisions on all claims was never meant to include some benefits.
After a week in which the phone lines of the Associated Press were bugged and Google glasses that can record our every move are being tested, it seems fitting to mark World Information Society Day.
