Obama Says Shifting Political Attitudes to Blame in Immigration Reform Delay
President Barack Obama has claimed that the delay in executive immigration reform is the result of shifting political attitudes regarding the increase in unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the...
View ArticleUnderground Journalism Is Keeping the Fight Against Assad Alive in Syria
It’s 4 p.m. Damascus time, and Umabdul al-Halabi (Mother From Aleppo) is showing on Halab Today TV. It’s a sitcom; inside a barber’s shop, a fat man is being shaved by a man with silly hair.“The...
View ArticlePope Accepts Resignation of Head of Scandal-Plagued Irish Church
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, the Vatican said on Monday, drawing a line under a career plagued by accusations that he kept quiet about...
View ArticleObama Expands Air Strikes Against Islamic State
U.S. warplanes carried out five strikes on Islamic State insurgents menacing Iraq's Haditha Dam on Sunday, witnesses and officials said, widening what President Barack Obama called a campaign to curb...
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Alibaba: The $200 Billion ‘Open Sesame’
In the summer of 2006, the war for control of e-commerce in the world’s most populous nation was at its most intense. It pitted a company then known as Alibaba-Taobao, formed in 1999 in the apartment...
View ArticleEU Restates Position: an Independent Scotland Would Have to Reapply
The European Commission said on Monday it stood by its position that Scotland would have to leave the European Union and reapply for membership if Scots vote to leave the United Kingdom in a referendum...
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Beating The Odds 2014 - Top Schools For Low-Income Students
This year, Newsweek sought to recognize schools that beat the odds, performing better than statistically expected for their level of poverty. For this list, we ranked schools on how well they prepare...
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Top 10 Schools 2014
The question, 'What are the best schools?' has two different answers depending on whether or not you take poverty into account.Frequently Asked Questions | Understanding the Rankings | Top 10 High...
View ArticleFrequently Asked Questions About Newsweek's High School Rankings
Why are there two sets of rankings?The question, What Are America’s Top Schools? has different answers depending on whether or not student poverty is taken into account. We realized that rather than...
View ArticleMethodology of Newsweek's Top High School Rankings
The question “What are the best schools?” has two different answers, depending on whether or not you take student poverty into account. In 2014, we decided to address this disparity by publishing two...
View ArticleMap: Newsweek's High School Rankings
Frequently Asked Questions | Understanding the Rankings | Top 10 High Schools | America's Top High Schools | Beating the Odds - Top Schools for Low Income Students | Mapping America's Top High Schools...
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Maker Movement Reinvents Education
Ten years from now, primary and secondary education may look more like a scene from Tim Allen’s workshop in The Santa Clause than Ben Stein’s economics class in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In some...
View ArticleWhat Classrooms Can Learn From the Google Campus
Pulling into Bridgeport, the train slips past decaying, emptied brick factory buildings, every window a jagged smile of broken glass, then on by row houses hemming in yellowing lawns strewn with beaten...
View ArticleThe Manhattan School That's Helping Immigrant Students Succeed
A generation or two ago, Manhattan’s Lower East Side was known for its bustling immigrant population. Today it’s mostly a jumble of upscale bistros and luxury condominiums, but on a forgotten corner of...
View ArticleThe Number 1 High School in America Offers a Real Head Start
The No. 1–ranked high school in the country looks like a construction zone, sounds a bit like a college campus when you hear talk of the curriculum and smells a lot like sawdust. Welcome to Thomas...
View ArticleNewsweek's High School Rankings for 2014: Two Lists Are Better Than One
For more than a decade, Newsweek has published an annual list of America’s Top High Schools, ranked primarily according to a ratio of AP/IB exams to the number of students graduating. This year we’re...
View ArticleUkraine's President Visits Frontline City Amid ‘Shaky’ Ceasefire
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited the eastern port of Mariupol on Monday and promised to deal a 'crushing defeat' to pro-Russian rebels massed on the edge of town if they tried to advance in...
View ArticleMeteorite Leaves House-Sized Crater in Nicaragua’s Capital
A blast near the Nicaraguan capital city of Managua on Saturday night was most likely caused by a meteorite plummeting to Earth, creating a 40-foot-wide crater.A piece of the 2014 RC asteroid that...
View ArticleUK's Markets Spooked as Poll Shows Scotland May Break Free
LONDON/EDINBURGH (Reuters) - British financial markets tumbled on Monday after an opinion poll showed for the first time this year that Scots may vote for independence in a referendum next week,...
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ISIS's Enemy List: 10 Reasons the Islamic State Is Doomed
The so-called Islamic State, better known as ISIS, is not just a collection of barbaric psychopaths willing to engage in the most brutal and sordid forms of violence without any hesitation born of...
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