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By Dana Goldstein Dana Goldstein has been reporting on education since 2007. May 10, 2025 What happened to learning as a national priority? For decades, both Republicans and Democrats strove to be seen as champions of student achievement. Politicians believed pushing…..
Washington Post Monica Hesse April 30th 2025 Until I reached a kid-having age, I might have guessed that the priciest child-related expense was diapers. This was based on a blissful ignorance of parenting math that can be found only in…..
By Don Bacon Don Bacon, a Republican, represents Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House. He co-chairs the bipartisan National Service Congressional Caucus. As a small-government conservative who supports a leaner and more efficient federal bureaucracy, I have cheered President…..
Washington Post May 6th 2025 Rahm Emanuel After returning to the United States from three years as our ambassador in Tokyo, I was keen to speak to undergraduates at West Point and Annapolis, our two oldest military academies. I’d committed…..
By Tobi Raji Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service has ordered AmeriCorps to terminate close to $400 million in grants — roughly 41 percent of the national service agency’s total grant funding, according to three people with knowledge of the matter who…..
By Mariana Alfaro and Tobi Raji Before Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) became a politician, he was an AmeriCorps member. Thirty years ago, fresh out of college, Fetterman was sent to Pittsburgh’s Hill District as part of the program’s second class. He spent his…..
“If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. (Amen) That’s a new definition of greatness. And this…..
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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any…..
“Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because…..