The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

We must ensure that we are hiring and retaining qualified, diverse candidates not only to teach in our classrooms, but to work at the DOE overseeing our students' education.

When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.