Bloomberg It has become an article of faith among education reformers that throwing more money at public education doesn’t improve student performance. But a steady drumbeat of careful research studies is calling this into question. What if more money really does work? The case against spending more on schools comes in two basic forms. One is to look at various ...

Bloomberg According to an employment report, 59.8 percent of Americans aged 16 and older had jobs in February. That’s the highest employment-to-population ratio in years, and the rate of increase is clearly on the rise. Look back some more years, though, and the story is different. The recent gains are real, but by the standards of the past few decades, ...

Washington / AFP Google has announced that it would implement changes in how it applies the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ for online searches made in Europe. The changes, to be implemented next week, would close a loophole that allowed Europeans to find deleted entries by using Google.com instead of the search page for their local country. “Starting next week, ...