Baseless fears of Common Core

By MICHAEL GERSON | 5/21

WASHINGTON -- The Common Core standards are actually an attempt by governors—including many conservative, Republican governors—to set some coherent standards on what children should know about math and English by various grade levels. It emphasizes analytic reasoning and the interpretation of “informational texts,” including historical documents such as the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address.
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Missing school—for vacation

By ESTHER J. CEPEDA | 5/19

CHICAGO -- The sheer number of Latino students in public schools—one out of every four elementary school students—demands that absences for family vacations get more investigation.
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Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 5/17

WASHINGTON -- On Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals, stop the talk of Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. Hyperbole simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming this is nothing but partisan politics. Let the facts speak for themselves.
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Graduation prayer, fighting over a lost cause

By CHARLES C. HAYNES | 5/16

On May 6, the school board in Lake City, Arkansas, voted to cancel sixth-grade graduation at two elementary schools. The action came soon after the district received a complaint letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation objecting to prayers at previous graduations. Rather than drop the prayers, the district opted to drop the entire ceremony.
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Government’s heavy hand

By MICHAEL GERSON | 5/16

WASHINGTON -- If there is any thread that unites the three latest scandals, it is government heavy-handedness. Seizing the phone records of, say, three editors and reporters would constitute a leak investigation. Seizing the phone records of perhaps 100 is a fishing expedition and a form of intimidation.
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A perception challenge for GOP

By ESTHER J. CEPEDA | 5/16

WASHINGTON -- After nearly a year of breathless news reports about how Latinos were going to trip over themselves running to the polls, the reality turns out to be less dramatic.
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Troubled economic agency shouldn’t be fooling us twice

By REP. JANIS RINGHAND | 5/15

The nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau recently released a full program audit of the new Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. The results were embarrassing.
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Not such strange bedfellows

By KATHLEEN PARKER | 5/15

WASHINGTON -- The tea party and the 'Lamestream Media' have discovered a common enemy.
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The IRS needs an audit

By MICHAEL GERSON | 5/14

WASHINGTON -- The practices already admitted by the IRS were not political insensitivity; they were political corruption. They amounted to an intrusive, ideologically targeted federal investigation of an American political movement.
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Benghazi redacted

By KATHLEEN PARKER | 5/12

WASHINGTON -- Mistakes were made. This, we are supposed to accept, is the conclusion to be drawn about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, despite congressional testimony Wednesday suggesting that significant efforts were made to camouflage those mistakes.
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