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Given the fierce 2008 competition between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, it’s no surprise that the Obama White House considers itself the main architect of foreign policy and Secretary of State Clinton the “principal…

If you walk past the National Mall in Washington, D.C. this week, you may think you've stepped into the nation’s largest classroom. Eight hundred fifty-seven desks line the expansive green, symbolizing the 857 students that drop out of school every…

Online education has officially arrived. What five years ago was the ubiquitous domain of University of Phoenix, is now dominated by sexy start-ups like the recently announced edX by Harvard and MIT. The unprecedented boom of these education…

If you’re a millennial, preschool seems like a millennium ago, middle school a bad dream, and high school is the “good ol’ days”. And, while you may never forget those epic senior week parties a la American Pie, your increasing maturity makes you…

Washington Capitals' Joel Ward should be basking in the glory of his game-winning goal against the Boston Bruins last night; instead, he is at the center of a racist tweet controversy. After Ward won the game, angry Bruins fans took to the Internet,…

Every week in New York, there’s an education-focused event within two very different circles: non-education innovators and education practitioners. In the past two weeks, the Council on Foreign Affairs held a discussion with former NYC Chancellor…

Trayvon Martin was murdered days before the Kony 2012 campaign went viral, a video that notched 100 million hits in just 10 days. While Martin’s case is just beginning to trend in the media, why has the injustice not captured our attention the same…

Many millenials grew up believing in the equation of education: school + college graduate education = a good life. Unfortunately, the calculation is unraveling, especially for those pursuing graduate programs in public policy. The ROI – or return on…

Current U.S. immigration laws not only hurt our economy, but also harm the United States' global competitive advantage in innovation. Immigrants have founded about half of all top performing, venture-funded businesses in the U.S. and occupy 76% of…

If you’re not in technology or education, you may not have heard of Jose Ferreira. But, if you care about the Millennium Development Goals or about how your kids will succeed in the future, you’re going to want to. Ferreira’s startup, Knewton, shows…

To the naked eye, it was obvious that participants of last week’s Startup Weekend EDU, a 54-hour experiential program on how to create a startup in education, was overwhelmingly male. But, audience favorites and the ultimate winner were all…

Former NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s appointment as a Global Cultural Ambassador by the State Department on January 18 is more important than the usual photo-op – it tells a richer, more accurate story of who we are as a nation to foreigners who…

President Barack Obama participated in his first ever Google+ Hangout this afternoon to answer Americans’ questions about his State of the Union Address from last week. According to the White House, he had planned to answer “several of the most…

On Thursday, Bill Gates promised $750 million to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which recently has lost donor appeal — and, as of Tuesday, also it’s executive director — because of corruption in the countries it operates.…

The White House announced a packed engagement schedule in the lead up to and after Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, including a full week of “Office Hours” with senior officials, a White House TweetUp, and a Google+ hangout with President…