SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record (Justin Pope)

Sept. 14, 2011 (AP) -- SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995. The College Board, w ...

The Miserable Ones (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2011 -- I’m going to tell you a story today, it’s a story about you and me and it’s a story about a father and son. In a larger sense it’s a story about A ...

Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? (Noam Chomsky)

Aug. 9, 2011 -- (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid privatizati ...

Confused Strategy: How the PA Sold Out Palestinian Unity (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 13, 2011 -- If you happen to be a Palestinian government employee, chances are you will receive only half your usual salary this month. The other half will only ...

One Missile, One Playground: The Will of Gaza (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 8, 2011 -- GAZA -- A “Hamas commander” drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the passenger seat. The ...

Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 25, 2011 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occu ...

The Guiding Principle (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 31, 2011 -- It has been about a month since my rescue from the street. I quickly became sissified, sanctified, civilized and satisfied. I am plagued though, b ...

Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 30, 2010 -- When the Iraqi army fell before invading U.S. and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years afte ...

BOOKS: Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’ (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2010 -- When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, fe ...

A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 18, 2010 -- I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on “Education and Youth”. Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, ...

Another Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Are Already at Home (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2010 -- On Sunday, Oct. 31, when a group of militants seized a church in Baghdad, killing and wounding scores of Iraqi Christians, it signaled yet another ep ...